The Metamorphosis Foundation is organizing an event titled “Commitment to Openness for Long-Term Success” which will be held on June 19, 2024 starting at 11 am in the Millennium 2 Hall at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Skopje.
The event will highlight the latest findings from the monitoring of executive branch openness, conducted through the National Openness Index, and compare them with results from previous years. The discussion will present lessons learned and good practices that can enhance institutional transparency.
The event will also discuss the Open Government Partnership and present the commitments from the sixth National Action Plan.
All those interested in participating in the event should register at the following link.
The Openness Index assesses the performance of the executive branch in the area of good governance by focusing on four pillars: (1) accessibility, (2) efficiency, (3) integrity, and (4) transparency with one common domain present in all four pillars – open data.
The research was conducted between February 2024 and May 2024. The sample of targeted institutions consists of the General Secretariat of the Government, 16 ministries and 19 randomly selected executive bodies within the ministries. The research methods consist of (1) monitoring the websites of the targeted institutions according to a series of indicators, (2) a questionnaire sent to the institutions to confirm the findings obtained from the online monitoring, (3) a request for access to public information sent to each institution with the intention of assessing the degree of fulfillment of this fundamental right by each of the institutions, as well as (4) a review of the legislative framework.
The survey is repeated annually and allows us to compare the extent to which the recommendations are being acted upon.
The event is part of a synergy between the projects “Transparency and accountability of State Institutions in the Republic of North Macedonia” implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation with financial support from the “Foundation Open Society – Macedonia,” and the project “Using New Media to Promote Government Transparency” implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation as part of the ACTION SEE partnership consortium with financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy.
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