Launch of the Third OGP National Action Plan 2018 – 2020

Within the Tunisia’s Open government Partnership Program, The e-Government Unit at the Ministry of civil service, the modernization of administration and public policies, in cooperation with the World Bank, organized a seminar to announce the launching of implementation of the Third OGP national action plan 2018-2020 on November 21, 2018 starting at 06 pm in the Laico hotel in Tunis.

The seminar was opend by Mr. Kamel Morjane, Minister of civil service, modernization of the administration and public policies and Mr. Tony Verheijen,  Head of the World Bank Office in Tunisia. In addition, various officials from international organizations participated in the forum such as Mr. Mohamed Ali Haider, program officer at the OGP support unit; Mrs. Karine Badr representative of the OECD; Mrs. Hélène WILLART representative of the French Development Agency office in Tunisia; and Mrs.  MoonJung Choi, head of the office of Korea International Cooperation Agency in Tunisia.

Moreover, this conference gathered about 100 participants from senior officials of administration and other relevant public institutions as well as a significant number of seniors managers and civils society representatives from African-Francophone countries (Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Senegal, Guinea, Madagascar, Niger, Togo, Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Cameroon) in addition to several international and regional stakeholders and experts on the open government issues ( Office of the Open Government Partnership, World Bank, French Development Agency, Expertise France, CFI, Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation).

Tunisa joined the Open Government Partnership since January 14, 2014. It developed and implemented two action plans over the last four years. In this regard, the Third OGP action plan is a result of a participatory approach which established a framework for concerted government-civil society efforts during among eight month of consultations, joint work, exchange and selection of more than 600 proposals received through several mechanisms of consultation; which enabled to draft the final version of the 3rd OGP national action plan comprising 13 commitments classified into 4 axes as follow : Enhancing the right on access to information and opening up public data; Promoting the transparency in the natural resources management field; Devoting integrity, participatory approach and local governance and Improving the administrative services quality.