Streamline processes of consulting and involving citizens in innovative policy-making (RO0066)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Romania Action Plan 2020-2022
Action Plan Cycle: 2020
Status: Active
Institutions
Lead Institution: General Secretariat of the Government - General Directorate for Open Government, Public Relations and Cooperation - Open Government Service
Support Institution(s): Central and local public administration Ministries Civil Societies Centre for Public Innovation
Policy Areas
Capacity Building, E-Government, Public ParticipationDescription
Which public issue will be addressed by this obligation? Although the current regulatory framework establishes a number of legal mechanisms capable of stimulating participation and establishing a strong collaborative relationship with the civil society, most of the time, the use of these mechanisms fails to make a real contribution to improving the quality of decisions and the adequacy of public decisions. The accelerated expansion of the associative environment, without managing a real-time record of the dynamics and evolution of interested stakeholders, has generated knowledge problems and difficulties in accessing information specific to the existing civic space, as well as discussions on the efficiency of levers through which citizens can be involved in the elaboration of public administration decisions according to certain areas of interest. Opening the administration to the real needs of the civil society must involve managing the innovation process in the public sector, in order to become able to understand and encourage the new approaches needed to solve the complex problems of society. Civil servants need to acquire new tools, knowledge, skills and connections to help them explore appropriate opportunities to interact with the general public.
Description of the commitment What is the obligation? 1. Development of a single digital tool to support communities of expertise interested in making public decisions and those responsible for the central 8 executive dealing with the relationship with the civil society. 2. Developing structures for the relationship with the associative environment at the level of ministries in order to acquire the capacity to collect innovative initiatives promoted by civil society, in each field of activity and to carry out uniformly the practices of consultation and involvement of citizens in the governing act.
How will the fulfilment of the obligation contribute to the solving of the public problem? - by encouraging participation in public decisionmaking and facilitating dialogue between public administration and civil society by involving civil society in the public policy-making process; - by standardizing the practices of consultation and involvement of citizens in the governing act; - by creating a better coordination of political and public decisions in order to provide innovative ways for civil society to take action; -by increasing the quality of consultation processes by ensuring that NGOs have access to advisory structures and the necessary information; - by building the skills of civil servants for the innovative approach to the interaction between the public sphere and the interested stakeholders.
What is the main objective The development of a coordination mechanism at the level of the General Secretariat of the Government in order to support central public authorities to manage the necessary innovative processes in the public sector with the purpose of interacting appropriately with the civil society to streamline participatory processes, by: ensuring stakeholder access to advisory structures for areas of interest; simplifying and increasing the quality of communication between institutions and civil society; facilitating the understanding, testing and incorporation of new ways of interacting with civil society.
Goals/activities Responsible (institution / partner) Start date End date The evaluation at the level of the target groups formed by ministries of the stage of the processes of involvement of the civil society and of the quality of the administration-nongovernmental sector relationship. (1 questionnaire / meeting with public institutions, 1 questionnaire / meeting with General Secretariat of the Government /Public institutions/ NGOs 2021 2021 9 NGOs) Information and training sessions with representatives of the institutions in the target group on the practices of consultation and involvement of civil society in the decisionmaking process. (meetings with information and training public institutions) General Secretariat of the Government /Public institutions/ NGOs 2021 2022 The establishment and implementation of additional functionalities for the CONECT platform, designed to configure a national map of the distribution by development regions of non-governmental organizations, public administration officials and advisory structures. (1 questionnaire / meeting with public institutions, 1 questionnaire / meeting with NGOs) General Secretariat of the Government /Public institutions/ NGOs 2021 2021 Elaborating a Guide for the innovative approach of the processes of involvement of the citizens in the decision-making process. (2 questionnaires / meetings with NGOs, 2 questionnaires / meetings with public institutions) General Secretariat of the Government /Public institutions/ NGOs 2021 2021 Informing and disseminating the Guide at the level of public administration and civil society authorities, as well as monitoring the use of the digital tool. (information sessions with NGOs and public institutions) General Secretariat of the Government /Public institutions/ NGOs 2022 2022
Commitments
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Streamline processes of consulting and involving citizens in innovative policy-making
RO0066, 2020, Capacity Building
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Increase youth involvement in decision-making processes
RO0067, 2020, E-Government
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Extend open government initiatives to the local level
RO0068, 2020, Capacity Building
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Improving access to social services for vulnerable citizens
RO0069, 2020, Capacity Building
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Create centralized public database for non-reimbursable financing
RO0070, 2020, E-Government
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Analyze and increase availability of data on public allocations and procurements
RO0071, 2020, Anti-Corruption
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Publish information about projects financed by Romania in the Republic of Moldova
RO0072, 2020, Aid
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Promote rights of citizens belonging to national minorities
RO0073, 2020, Access to Justice
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Assess and draft recommendations to improve health services
RO0074, 2020, Access to Information
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Analyze data and train health professionals in reducing patient risk
RO0075, 2020, Capacity Building
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Eliminate unnecessary bureaucratic procedures at central government level
RO0076, 2020, E-Government
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Increase amount of open data
RO0077, 2020, Access to Information
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Standardize Public Consultation Practices
RO0048, 2018, E-Government
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Open Local Government
RO0049, 2018, Capacity Building
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Citizen Budgets
RO0050, 2018, Capacity Building
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Youth Participation
RO0051, 2018, Capacity Building
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Register of Civil Society Proposals
RO0052, 2018, E-Government
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Access to Information – Local
RO0053, 2018, Capacity Building
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Online Business Sector Information
RO0054, 2018, Capacity Building
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Digital Consular Services
RO0055, 2018, Capacity Building
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Transparency in the Funding of Political Parties
RO0056, 2018, Access to Information
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National Investment Fund Transparency
RO0057, 2018, Access to Information
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Civil Servant Training
RO0058, 2018, Capacity Building
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Raise Awareness About Corruption
RO0059, 2018, Capacity Building
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Transparency of Seized Assets
RO0060, 2018, Access to Information
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Access to Social Services
RO0061, 2018, E-Government
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Open Access to Research
RO0062, 2018, Access to Information
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Open Education
RO0063, 2018, Access to Information
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Evaluate Open Data
RO0064, 2018, Access to Information
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Open Data
RO0065, 2018, Access to Information
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Improving the Legal Framework and Practices Regarding Access to Public Interest Information
RO0030, 2016, Access to Information
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Centralized Publishing of Public Interest Information on the Single Gateway Transparenta.Gov.Ro
RO0031, 2016, Capacity Building
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Promoting Open Parliament Principles
RO0032, 2016, Capacity Building
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Improved Management of the Applications Submitted for Granting Citizenship
RO0033, 2016, Capacity Building
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Standardization of Transparency Practices in the Decision-Making Procedures
RO0034, 2016, Capacity Building
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Centralised Publication of Legislative Projects on the Single Gateway Consultare.Gov.Ro
RO0035, 2016, Capacity Building
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Citizens Budgets
RO0036, 2016, Capacity Building
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Improve Youth Consultation and Public Participation
RO0037, 2016, Capacity Building
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Subnational Open Government
RO0038, 2016, Capacity Building
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Promoting Transparency in the Decision-Making Process By Setting Up a Transparency Register (RUTI)
RO0039, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Access to Performance Indicators Monitored in the Implementation of the National Anticorruption Strategy (SNA)
RO0040, 2016, Access to Information
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Improve Transparency in the Management of Seized Assets
RO0041, 2016, Access to Information
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Annual Mandatory Training of Civil Servants on Integrity Matters
RO0042, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Improving Access to Cultural Heritage
RO0043, 2016, Capacity Building
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Open Data and Transparency in Education
RO0044, 2016, Access to Information
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Virtual School Library and Open Educational Resources
RO0045, 2016, Capacity Building
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Open Contracting
RO0046, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Published Open Data
RO0047, 2016, Access to Information
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Publishing the Public Interest Information on a Single Government Portal: Transparenta.Gov.Ro
RO0019, 2014, Access to Information
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Making an Inventory of the Datasets Produced by the Ministries and Subordinate Agencies
RO0020, 2014, Access to Information
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Ensuring the Free Online Access to National Legislation
RO0021, 2014, E-Government
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Amending Law 109/2007 on the Re-Use of Public Sector Information
RO0022, 2014, Access to Information
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Opening Data Collected from the National Health System
RO0023, 2014, Access to Information
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Opening Data Collected from the Monitoring of Preventive Measures as Part of the National Anticorruption Strategy 2012-2015
RO0024, 2014, Access to Information
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Open Contracting
RO0025, 2014, Anti-Corruption
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Opening up Data Resulted from Publicly-Funded Research Projects
RO0026, 2014, E-Government
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Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Published Open Data
RO0027, 2014, Access to Information
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Human Resource Training in the Field of Open Data
RO0028, 2014, Access to Information
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Disseminating Information on the OGP Principles and Promoting the Open Data Concept in an Accessible Manner
RO0029, 2014, Public Participation
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Designating a Person Responsible for Publishing Open Data in Each Public Institution
RO0001, 2012, Access to Information
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Identifying Regulatory Needs, Logistical and Technical Solutions
RO0002, 2012, Access to Information
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Making an Inventory of Available (High-Value) Data-Sets
RO0003, 2012, Access to Information
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Priority Publishing on the Web Pages of Public Institutions of Specific Data-Sets
RO0004, 2012, Access to Information
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Initiating Pilot-Projects, in Partnerships
RO0005, 2012, Access to Information
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Organizing Public Debates on the Utility of Open Data, in Partnerships
RO0006, 2012, Access to Information
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Uniform, Machine-Readable Publishing Format for Open Data
RO0007, 2012, Access to Information
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Procedures for Publication of Data-Sets Based on Civil Society Recommendations
RO0008, 2012, Access to Information
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Procedures for Citizen Complaints Pertaining to Open Data
RO0009, 2012, Access to Information
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Consultation Mechanism Between Suppliers and Beneficiaries of Open Data
RO0010, 2012, Access to Information
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Creating a Rating System for the Assessment of High-Value Data-Sets
RO0011, 2012, Access to Information
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Routinely Publishing Specific Data-Sets on Web Pages of Public Institutions
RO0012, 2012, Access to Information
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Integrating Open Data from Public Institutions in a Single National Platform
RO0013, 2012, Access to Information
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Inventories of Data, in Order to Facilitate Public Access
RO0014, 2012, Access to Information
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Institute a Monitoring Mechanism of Compliance for Open Data
RO0015, 2012, Access to Information
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Stimulating the Market for Innovative Use of Open Data
RO0016, 2012, Access to Information
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Routinely Publishing Data-Sets on the National Platform, 25% High-Value
RO0017, 2012, Access to Information
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The Public Procurement Electronic System (SEAP). the Electronic Allocation System for Transports (SAET)/B.1 C) Expanding the On-Line Submission of Fiscal Forms. Ensuring the Free On-Line Access to National Legislation. Developing Electronic Tools to Manage Subpoenas and Facilitate Access Toinformation Regarding Legal Proceedings. Developing Electronic Tools to Manage the Procedures Related to Obtaining the Romanian Citizenship. Developing Electronic Tools to Manage the Procedures Related to the Creation of Non-Profit Legal Persons. the Integrated System for Electronic Access to Justice (SIIAEJ)
RO0018, 2012, Access to Justice