Chile
Implement the National Public Integrity Strategy (ENIP)
The government
committed to implementing a
national public integrity strategy (Estrategia Nacional de Integridad Pública or ENIP) to increase trust in the country’s institutions and fight corruption. The government co-created the strategy with a gender lens through a series of multi-stakeholder consultations and workshops. ENIP contains 210 measures to combat corruption, including in areas such as beneficial ownership transparency, conflicts of interest, political integrity, and public procurement.
This national-level strategy aims to improve coordination across government to implement key anti-corruption policies through a set of comprehensive actions identified by the public as priorities, with a built-in monitoring mechanism for its implementation.
Challenge Theme: Anti-Corruption
Guatemala
National Mechanisms to Reduce Gender Violence
The government
committed to strengthening its institutional processes to implement policies, plans, and projects aiming to prevent and address violence against women in the country. In particular, Guatemala will continue to improve its Comprehensive Support Centers for Women Survivors of Violence (CAIMUS, in Spanish), including by transferring funds to CAIMUS more quickly and transparently.
The government will increase funding and improve coordination between different agencies to prevent, address, punish and eradicate gender-based violence. This includes improving access to comprehensive care for women survivors of violence.
Challenge Theme: Gender and Inclusion
Armenia
Digital Gift Declaration Register for Public Officials
The government
committed to creating a digital register for public officials to disclose and display gifts they have received, within the framework of Armenia's new integrity system. The register will facilitate the automated declaration and evaluation of gifts, ensuring that all relevant information is recorded and made publicly available.
Thanks to the new register, public servants will learn about permissible gift acceptance, while civil society, journalists, and members of the public will be able to monitor gift disclosures, which can help avoid or flag potential conflicts of interest and other integrity issues as part of a broader fight against corruption.
Challenge Theme: Anti-Corruption
Quintana Roo, Mexico
Co-Create an Environmental Governance Plan
The Secretary of the Comptroller of the State of Quintana Roo and the Secretary of Finance and Planning
committed to running a co-creation process for an environmental governance plan. The commitment will begin with a participatory planning process that will involve citizen dialogues and co-creation tables to discuss the direction and content of the plan.
This commitment is ambitious because the environmental governance plan will become part of Quintana Roo’s long-term Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development. Creating a local-level strategy is key to ambitious climate and environmental reform, especially in that the new plan will help localize the Escazú Agreement in the state.
Challenge Theme: Climate and Environment
Moldova
Increase Public Participation in Decision-Making Engagement
The government
committed to establishing and enhancing permanent consultation spaces, where civil society and others can provide feedback on decision-making that has an impact on the public interest. Proposals and objections from public stakeholders will also be included in the legislative files submitted to the government for approval.
The substantial improvement of a permanent mechanism for public participation has the potential to increase the public’s role in key decision-making. The government set ambitious targets for participation, such as a 100 percent publication rate for the results of consultations and a 90 percent response rate to public comments submitted online.
Challenge Theme: Public Participation
United States
Framework for Public Participation and Community Engagement
The government
committed to creating a new framework to strengthen current public participation activities led by the federal government and to provide support for agencies that will begin such engagement for the first time or support those with engagement activities already underway. The commitment includes the creation of a toolkit, which will act as an ongoing repository for guidance, case studies, and leading practices on public participation.
This commitment seeks to promote and support federal agencies' obligation to improve public participation throughout the federal government.
Challenge Theme: Public Participation
Malawi
Open Contracting and Beneficial Ownership Transparency
Malawi
has begun work to strengthen its legal frameworks on public procurement and beneficial ownership. For example, the government has mandated the collection and publication of beneficial ownership data, passed regulations to implement this change, and
launched a beneficial ownership register. The commitment also aims to require the use of beneficial ownership data in the public contracting process and transition to an online procurement system to prevent abuse.
This commitment connects beneficial ownership data with public procurement data for the first time in Malawi and makes such contracts available to the public, which would allow members of the public to see who is earning money from government contracts.
Challenge Theme: Anti-Corruption
Learn more about this commitment
here.
Ukraine
Implement a Whole-of-Government Anti-Corruption Strategy
The government committed to implementing the new strategy in 15 priority areas, such as the lack of effective verification for beneficial ownership information. A key element will be monitoring the progress of implementation through a public platform.
This commitment can ensure that implementation of the whole-of-government anti-corruption strategy is done transparently, enabling public oversight and feedback on its progress.
Challenge Theme: Anti-Corruption
Learn more about this commitment
here.
Brazil
Open Contracting for Federal Infrastructure Projects
The government
committed to improving open contracting policies for infrastructure projects and increasing public engagement on project planning, implementation, and evaluation, such as by creating a permanent space for dialogue. The commitment will focus on increasing data interoperability and integration in the public procurement portal and disclosing information on all federal infrastructure projects.
This commitment has the potential to increase public engagement in public infrastructure contracts throughout the entire project cycle. It also uses a whole-of-government approach by coordinating reform with key sectoral ministries through the Comptroller’s Office.
Challenge Theme: Anti-Corruption
Colombia
Open, Accessible, and Inclusive Court Rulings
The Judiciary
committed to increasing the public’s understanding of the Constitutional Court’s work, with a focus on youth and various Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities. This includes consulting the public on which judicial decisions to translate to plain language, publishing children’s books on their constitutional rights, translating court decisions on ethnic group protections into native languages, and publishing court rulings online for public scrutiny.
This commitment uses open justice approaches to increase understanding of what the Constitutional Court does, especially among vulnerable groups, and to encourage the use of data related to the court’s rulings.
Challenge Theme: Justice
Costa Rica
Strategy to Reduce the Judicial Backlog
The Judiciary
committed to reducing the backlog by publishing all court case data on its centralized Continuous Improvement Model platform, which will allow the public to monitor progress.
By opening case backlog data, this commitment can increase the public’s understanding of the judicial system and allow them to monitor progress, which are key elements to advancing open justice.
Challenge Theme: Justice
Learn more about this commitment
here.
Finland
Strengthen National Dialogues
The government
committed to increasing participation in national dialogues and simplifying the results to better shape public policy-making.
This commitment has the potential to expand this form of participation across a diverse set of government institutions.
Challenge Theme: Public Participation
Learn more about this commitment
here.
Dominican Republic
National Strategy for Civic Space
The government committed to creating a national strategy for civic space to guarantee the rights to assembly, association, and expression.
This commitment has the potential to create an enabling environment for civil society and civic action.
Challenge Theme: Civic Space
Learn more about this commitment
here.
