Conference Commitment to Openness for Long-Term Success

The Metamorfosis Foundation organized an event “Commitment to openness for long-term success” which took place on June 19, 2024, starting at 11 a.m. in the Millennium II hall at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Skopje. At the event, the latest results of the monitoring of the openness of the executive power performed through the Openness Index at the national level were promoted, and a comparison was made with the results of previous years. Lessons learned and good practices through which the transparency of institutions can be improved were presented through discussion. At the event, the Partnership for Open Government was discussed and the commitments from the sixth National Action Plan were presented. The monitoring is carried out for the eighth year in a row, regionally, in our country and in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the summarized regional results will be published in September, while the focus of today’s event was on the national results. The results were presented by the program director of the Metamorphosis Foundation, Danche Danilovska-Bajdevska. She emphasized that our country is the only one in the region with a Government Transparency Strategy, but the implementation of the strategy is still slow. The main conclusions from this year’s monitoring show that the progress in increasing the transparency and openness of the executive power (the ministries and the bodies within it) is at a standstill, the improved results of the past have stopped at a certain level, so there is no significant shift in recent years. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen the implementation of the existing policies that promote openness by the ministries and executive authorities, in order to achieve progress in openness. NEXT-EM dooel also had its presence.