PERIODIC NATIONAL ACTION PLAN CO-CREATED WITH STAKEHOLDERS

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The composition of the Working Group responsible for developing and presenting the National Action Plan V for 2024-2027 of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) of Mongolia was approved by the Chief Cabinet Secretariat Order No.99 dated November 1, 2023. The working group consisted of 52 members, 28 or 54% are representatives of government organizations, and 24 or 46% are representatives of non-governmental organizations.

Introductory workshop was held with support from Ivigail Ong, Acting Regional Lead of Asia Pacific, and Sara Jacobs, Independent Reporting Mechanism Research Officer, to provide working group members with a preliminary understanding of the OGP.

On November 8, 2023, the first meeting of the Working Group was held, and the first version of the draft plan was presented and discussed, including the commitments that have not been implemented from the previous NAP IV plan. Initially 13 commitments were proposed and opinions were exchanged. Over the course of more than a month, the Working Group met 4 times with full composition, 4 times with member of the sub-working groups, received opinions online 3 times, and organized a public discussion.

Total of 20 government organizations and 30 non-governmental organizations submitted comments for the draft plan, and the Working Group discussed these issues in accordance with the recommendations submitted by the IRM. Mongolian Multi-Stakeholder Forum (MSF) approved the final draft on Dec 26, 2023 and Minister of Mongolia and Chief Cabinet Secretariat of Government of Mongolia has issued an order approving NAP V on Dec 27, 2023.

NAP V consists of 9 following commitments:

Commitment 1. Advancing extractive industry transparency;
Commitment 2. Guarantee citizens’ right to freedom of information from the government and advance government transparency through the legal framework improvement on information transparency;
Commitment 3. Support civil society’s space, maturity, right to association and improve the legal framework to enable self-manage independently and autonomously;
Commitment 4. Ensure media freedom to strengthen democracy;
Commitment 5. Increase participation and control of citizens in the state budget and budget investments;
Commitment 6. Optimizing government services to all social groups;
Commitment 7. Creating the open data culture in democratic society;
Commitment 8. Evaluating the activities of government organizations regularly based on citizens’ satisfaction and increase their participation;
Commitment 9. Increasing the openness of the government administrative organizations.

OGP Mongolia Support Unit worked hard to ensure NAP V co-creation process was followed accordingly and guided by the recommendations from OGP and IRM, lessons learned from NAP IV report, NAP V set specific and ambitious goals with measurable expected outputs and included specific clause to report quarterly and biannual progress of the NAP V implementation to the MSF. Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning process of the NAP V implementation will be conducted by OGP Mongolia Support Unit. Information gathering and data collection shall be exercised quarterly and progress of implementation will be reported to MSF biannually.   

List of government organizations participated and provided comments for NAP V draft:

1.    Ministry of Economy and Development;
2.    Ministry of Finance;
3.    Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs;
4.    Ministry of Environment and Tourism;
5.    Ministry of Defense;
6.    Ministry of Construction and Urban Development;
7.    Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry;
8.    Ministry of Labor and Social Protection;
9.    Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Light Industry;
10. Ministry of Digital Development and Communications;
11. Ministry of Health;
12. Mayor’s Office of Ulaanbaatar City
13. Authority of Government Supervisory;
14. Authority of State Public Procurement;
15. The National Legal Institute;
16. Medicine and Medical Devices Regulatory Agency;
17. National Commission for State Productivity;
18. National Committee for Environmental Pollution Reduction;
19. New Recovery Policy Accelerator;
20. Independent Authority against Corruption.

List of non-government organizations participated and provided comments for NAP V draft:

1.    ‘Publish what you pay’ civil society coalition;
2.    National Council of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Mongolia (EITI Mongolia National Council);
3.    Mongolian Environmental Civil Council;
4.    Media Council of Mongolia NGO;
5.    Globe International Center;
6.    Center for Journalism Innovation and Development NGO;
7.    Open Society Forum NGO;
8.    Centre for Human Rights and Development NGO;
9.    Mongolian Women’s Labor Support Association;
10. The Asia Foundation;
11. Center for Journalism Innovation and Development NGO;
12. Youth Policy Watch NGO;
13. Тungaahui data studio LLC;
14. Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center NGO;
15. Transparency International Mongolia NGO;
16. Hanns Seidel Foundation – Mongolia office;
17. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation – Mongolia office;
18. Mongolian Academy of Sciences;
19. Strategy Academy NGO;
20. International Republican Institute in Mongolia;
21. Mongolian Natural Saving Fund NGO;
22. Youth Researcher Support Fund NGO;
23. Health4Men NGO;
24. Mongolian Women Lawyers Association;
25. Voter Education Center NGO;
26. Lawyers Without Borders NGO;
27. Universal Progress MILC NGO;
28. Mongolian Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
29. Mongolian National Recycling Association;
30. OGP envoy.