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• Transparency in government [Browse]
• Freedom of information [Browse]

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The Open Government Review provides an evidence-based assessment of the country's open government agenda against the ten provisions of the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government. The review takes stock of past reform efforts and provides guidance for Romania in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating an integrated policy agenda to improve the relationship between government and citizens and the way they interact.

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Contents

• Intro
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Executive summary
• Key findings
• Key recommendations
• 1 Assessment and recommendations
• Romania is a rapidly evolving democracy which faces several political and socio-economic challenges
• Key milestones for open government in Romania
• Law and regulations on open government policies and practices are mostly aligned with OECD practice
• Romanian public officials and civil society stakeholders currently do not have a shared understanding of the concept of open government and of its benefits
• Romanians today have better access to public information, but enforcement and implementation of the law need to be strengthened to foster standardisation, accessibility and re-usability of information
• Citizen and stakeholder participation is often seen as a formality and levels of engagement are low
• The Romanian public administration still lacks an open government culture
• Due to the presence of numerous policies that aim to promote openness in Romania, better policy coherence is needed
• The OGP action plans could be reinforced and built on greater buy-in from across government
• The General Secretariat of the Government is at the heart of Romania's open government ecosystem
• Co-ordination and sharing of good practices remain a challenge in Romania
• Digital government tools have enabled more impactful open government practices
• Monitoring and evaluation of open government reforms is moving in the right direction
• Romania is starting to move towards an open state agenda
• Romania currently has a unique window of opportunity to address existing challenges and move towards a more impactful open government agenda
• Key policy recommendations
• References
• Notes
• 2 Setting the scene: The context and drivers for open government in Romania
• Introduction.
• Open government is an enabler for democratic consolidation
• Defining open government in Romania
• A brief history of open government in Romania
• The context and drivers of open government in Romania
• A consolidating democracy
• A decentralised unitary state
• A legalistic administrative culture and a public sector that shows relatively low levels of innovation/proactivity
• Frequent changes in governments and short-term oriented decision-making
• A country that is well-integrated into the international community
• Trust in government is comparatively low
• Economic inequalities and poverty persist in parts of the country
• A changing population
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and of Russian aggression against Ukraine
• Laws and regulations
• 3 Methodology: The OECD approach to assessing open government reforms in Romania
• The OECD approach to assessing open government
• The OECD Recommendation on Open Government
• The OECD Framework for Assessing the Openness of Government
• The OECD Openness Spectrum
• The framework, scope and structure of the OECD Open Government Review of Romania
• A brief history of the co-operation between Romania and the OECD
• The basis: Romania's motivation to undergo an OECD Open Government Review
• The scope of the OECD Open Government Review of Romania
• The complementarity with other ongoing OECD reviews
• The methodology and evidence of this Review
• The involvement of OECD peer reviewers
• Questionnaires and surveys
• Interviews and fact-finding missions
• The structure of the OECD Open Government Review of Romania
• Definitions of key terms used in this Review
• Note
• 4 Implementing the legal framework for open government: Towards a more transparent and participatory government in Romania
• Open government principles and civic freedoms are protected by Romania's Constitution
• Access to information in Romania: Towards effective implementation
• Romania's access to information framework is encompassing
• Fostering the proactive disclosure of information
• Proactive disclosure has contributed to increasing transparency
• The location and format of proactive disclosure can be improved
• Fostering the reactive disclosure of information in Romania
• Public information can be requested by any person in Romania
• Ensuring the anonymity of requesters
• Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the ATI request process
• Responding timely to access to information requests
• Making appropriate use of exemptions to disclosing government information
• Establishing a more solid appeals process
• The deterring effect of sanctions
• Towards effective implementation of Romania's access to information framework
• Improving the inclusiveness of access to information
• Monitoring and evaluating for more effective disclosure
• Strengthening institutional oversight
• Empowering public officials responsible for ATI
• Increasing the impact of citizen and stakeholder participation in Romania
• Applying a more impactful set of participatory mechanisms at all stages of the policy cycle
• Improving standards and procedures for engaging citizens
• Building capacity to improve participatory processes
• Innovating for more effective citizen participation
• Facilitate citizen participation through an updated online platform
• Ensuring the appropriate use of fast-track procedures
• Conclusion
• Policy recommendations
• 5 Creating an enabling environment for an Open Government Strategy in Romania
• Strengthening the institutional framework for open government to enable successful strategy-implementation
• Empowering the Open Government Service in the General Secretariat of the Government
• Improving co-ordination and mainstreaming open government policies and practices across the whole state
• Upgrading the National Coordination Committee for the implementation of the Open Government Partnership
• Strengthening mandates and capacities at the level of each public institution
• Building open government literacy to foster strategy-implementation
• Streamlining and mainstreaming existing guidelines and toolkits on open government policies and practices
• Providing trainings and capacity-buildings on open government policies and practices
• Promoting open government policies and practices in public officials' competency frameworks
• Creating a community of practice on open government to foster informal sharing of information and experiences
• Strengthening public communications on open government through an integrated open government portal
• Conclusions
• 6 Taking a strategic approach to open government in Romania: Towards an Open Government Strategy
• Introduction
• What is an Open Government Strategy?
• The space for an Open Government Strategy in Romania
• Romania's National Recovery and Resilience Plan provides a clear mandate to design the Open Government Strategy
• Romania's current policy framework for open government
• The National Anticorruption Strategy includes a focus on open government
• The recurrent OGP action plans are key short-term policy levers to foster openness
• What kind of policy instrument is an Open Government Strategy in the Romanian context?
• Preparing for the design of an Open Government Strategy.
• Assessing the current situation and looking back and ahead
• Preparing a clear roadmap for the design of the Strategy
• Ensuring political commitment and raising awareness
• Deciding on the adequate time horizon for the Strategy
• Conducting a stakeholder mapping and involving all relevant stakeholders from both the central and local levels
• Identifying model policies to learn from
• Embedding the Strategy in Romania's existing policy framework
• Drafting an Open Government Strategy: What elements to include?
• The drafting process
• Involving all key stakeholders in drafting
• Having the Strategy peer-reviewed
• Writing in plain language
• Incorporating a regular review into the Strategy to ensure sustainability over time
• Elements to include in the Strategy
• Adding a telling subtitle
• Including an introduction and a foreword
• Defining a clear vision
• Including key definitions
• Establishing clear priorities
• Defining objectives
• Ways to cluster actions/initiatives in an Open Government Strategy
• Taking a principle-based approach
• Taking a sectorial approach
• Taking a tool-based approach
• Taking a target audience approach
• Taking an open-state approach
• Ways to design open government initiatives
• Model 1: All initiatives are included in the Open Government Strategy
• Model 2: The suggested National Open Government Committee periodically defines a whole-of-government working/action plan to implement the strategy
• Model 3: Each institution defines its own open government working plan
• Model 4: Institutions define initiatives that contribute to the achievement of the strategy's objectives at their own pace
• Adopting the Strategy
• Making the Strategy budget responsible
• Creating a dedicated online portal for the Strategy
• Laws and regulations.
• Notes.

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ISBN

• 92-64-39260-2
• 92-64-45786-0

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