NGOs are urging governments to make urgent appointments to the Open Government Partnership Advisory Council

The coalition of non-governmental organizations gathered around the “Partnership for Open Government” initiative welcomes the Decision of the Council of Ministers on the establishment of the BiH Advisory Council, and appeals to the entity governments and the Brcko District Government to urgently appoint their representatives to the Advisory Council.

Sarajevo, 18. October 2016 – The Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations within the Partnership for Open Government initiative welcomes the adoption of the Decision on the Establishment of the Advisory Council of the “Partnership for Open Government” initiative, whose task is to prepare a draft framework action plan for implementing the initiative.

In September 2014, BiH joined the Open Government Partnership initiative, which should prepare an action plan to ensure progress in the areas of transparency and openness of public administration, involvement and empowerment of citizens and civil society, fight against corruption, and use of new technologies to improve the quality of services. public administration provides citizens.

Given the significant delays, the NGO coalition appeals to the BiH Ministry of Justice to publish a public call for participation of NGO representatives in the BiH Advisory Council as soon as possible, and to provide professional and administrative support to the entire process together with the BiH Public Administration Reform Coordinator’s Office. . The organizations call on the entity governments and the Government of the Brčko District of BiH to prioritize the appointment of representatives to the BiH Advisory Council in order to begin the process of preparing a framework action plan.

Signatories of the announcement:
• Transparency International in BiH
• Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN)
• Center for Social Research – Analytics
• Civic Advocacy Center (CPI) Foundation
• UG Why not
• Youth Resource Center Tuzla

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