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THE COUNTRY: SERVICE TO CITIZENS
OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
The court proved highhandedness
of one man
The goal of the global initiative, Open Government Partnership (OGP), is to help governments to
be more transparent, efficient, and reliable – with institutions that encourage and motivate people
to react. The Government of Montenegro accessed OGP in 2011, and soon after that established
the Operational Team for Implementation of Open Government Partnership that would be
composed of government representatives and representatives of the civil sector. However, after
almost five years, since accessing OGP, we had created an inadequate first action plan that was
too general and without clear indicators for the monitoring of implementation, and at the end it
was an inadequate implementation.
Devotion of the Operational team to improvement of current solutions, with its previous leader,
was at a high level. However, the Government expressed a lack of political will to adopt proposals
and suggestions, and made clear that it did not want to work essentially on fulfillment of all of
these goals.
With the arrival of Srđan Kusovac, new Head of the Public Relations Bureau, the bureau stopped
adequately communicating with the civil sector, and all initiatives and tools that were implemented
until then reached the closing phase. The reports on implementation of any of the above
mentioned projects and the action plan were not drafted.
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