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Open government: Start of #PAGOF activities in Côte d'Ivoire

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Published on 17/05/2018
Democratic, economic and financial governance
STATE REFORM, RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY
Cote d'Ivoire
The Open Government Support Program in Francophone Africa – or #PAGOF – aims to support and assist the administrations and civil society (including the media) of the 3 French-speaking African countries which are members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) – Tunisia, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire – in fulfilling their commitments (National Action Plans) to open government. The aim is to respect the principles of OGP: transparency of public action and access to data, integrity of public action and public officials, and use of new technologies to promote openness and accountability.

#PAGOF is being financed by Agence Française de Développement (AFD) with EUR 3.5M and implemented by Expertise France, in partnership with CFI, over a period of 36 months.

Start of first #PAGOF activities in Côte d’Ivoire

The first activities started with Côte d’Ivoire. Indeed, at the 1st Monitoring Committee, which was held on 14 March 2018 in Abidjan, the annual activity programme for Côte d’Ivoire was approved and the quadripartite Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Expertise France, CFI, Côte d’Ivoire’s administration and the Ivorian Platform of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), in the presence of representatives of AFD and the French Embassy.

From 11 to 14 April, an initial training of trainers session subsequently gathered leaders from civil society and the administration to train them in public consultation processes in the context of the joint preparation by the administration and civil society of National Action Plan n° 2 (raise awareness of open government, moderate, lead public consultations – search for thematic areas, collection of civil society contributions, feedback of experience, etc.). These trainers will be responsible for conducting these public consultations together in the pilot municipalities, between the end of May and beginning of June, for the construction of National Action Plan n° 2.

Training for trainers in the public consultation process in the presence of Asma Cherifi (trainer), Myriam Habil (regional audiovisual attachée, SCAC of Abidjan) and participants from the Ivorian administration and civil society, 11-13 April 2018.
 

This training was led by an OGP specialist from Tunisian civil society, in order to facilitate exchanges of experience between French-speaking OGP member countries and promote South-South cooperation.

Following this training, a digital platform for public consultation was set up with the same team of trainers on 24 and 25 April by Open Source Politics experts, who are specialists in digital tools for participatory democracy (training in the development of the platform and administration/management/input of content). This platform will support the consultations organised in the municipalities and will reach a broader public. It will collect a number of proposals on thematic areas for the preparation of National Action Plan n° 2 and will thereby contribute to jointly building public action.

 

For further information about OGP, please consult the website of OGP

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