This monitoring report describes the progress and challenges of the implementation status of the NAP activities, covering the period from March 2020 to July 2021.
On February 27, 2020, the next “National Action Plan for the Promotion of Open Government for 2020-2022” was approved by the relevant decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The plan covers 64 events grouped in 9 areas.
Paragraph 5.2 of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the approval of the National Action Plan recommended that civil society institutions be involved in the implementation and evaluation of measures. At the same time, one of the main principles of the Open Government Partnership is the involvement of civil society institutions in the implementation of the Action Plan.
Current monitoring implementation focuses on assessing the implementation of the activities envisaged for the NAP in 2020-2021.
The National Action Plan envisages the implementation of activities on 10 paragraphs in 2020 and 9 paragraphs in 2021. Additional important information on the implementation of two more items was added to the report.
The monitoring report also includes the results of the monitoring of the second direction of the “National Action Plan for the Promotion of Open Government for 2020-2022” (measures to ensure financial transparency) implemented under the Empowering Civil Society Organizations for Transparency project (ECSOFT). The Empowering Civil Society Organizations for Transparency project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented jointly by MG Consulting and the Azerbaijan Open Government Platform and FHI 360.
According to the monitoring, the average implementation rate of the activities envisaged to be implemented in 21 paragraphs in the National Action Plan was 72.22%.
Activities on ten paragraphs were fully implemented, activities on 2 paragraphs were implemented under 50%.
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