Over the past 18 months the OGP Civil Society Engagement Team and Involve have been building and testing a new tool for civil society to evaluate their country's National Action Plan. The review tool is designed to support the objective and comparable analysis of National Action Plans from the perspective of civil society. It reviews the openness of the process of developing a country’s National Action Plan (i.e. the degree of transparency, participation and accountability), the quality and ambition of commitments, and the oversight and implementation of commitments.
With the help of civil society in a number of OGP countries, we tested the tool's process and questions in 2014 and revised them in 2015. Over the coming months we'll be rolling this new and improved version out to the latest round of countries going through their National Action Plan development process.
The next step is to develop the scoring and weighting. We need your help!
While all of the questions in the review tool are designed to measure an element we consider to be important in developing a good National Action Plan, they are not of equal importance. The tool needs to take this into account, giving added weight to the most critical factors and less weight to the nicer-to-haves.
We need your input on which are the most important elements in developing a good National Action Plan. Please take ten minutes to complete this survey by marking the importance of each elements out of five stars.
When completing the survey, remember that we are interested in the relative importance of each element compared to the others, so please try to use the full range of star ratings. Marking something one star does not mean you think it's unimportant, just that it's less important than the rest.
Thanks!
Paul, Nout & Tim