expressed their readiness to develop cooperation and partnership with CSOs and their commitment to implement activities aimed at improving consultations and establishing a transparent and efficient system of financing and supporting the implementation of CSOs projects and programmes in the interest of the public good.
THE DECLARATION ON THE COOPERATION BETWEEN CITIES AND CSOS The Declaration on the Cooperation between Cities and CSOs is the result of collaboration between the Office for Cooperation with NGOs and the Association of Cities in implementing measures and activities envisaged by the National Strategy for the Creation of an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development 2012-2016. By undersigning the Declaration, mayors
By the end of 2014 the Declaration was undersigned by mayors of 75 cities.
OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP Open government partnership is a multilateral initiative aimed at facilitating specific progress in transparency and openness in the work of public administration authorities by involving and empowering citizens and civil society, fighting corruption and using new technologies for the improvement of quality of services provided to citizens by the public administration authorities. The Office for Cooperation with NGOs provides professional support to the work of the Council of Open Government Partnership initiative in the Republic of Croatia.
Among the many results achieved under the Action Plan for implementing the Open Government Partnership initiative in Croatia, we would like to emphasise the following:
New Law on the Right of Access to Information, which came into effect in March 2013, brings new obligations for all public administration authorities (whether national, regional or local). They are obliged not only to publish draft documents for public consultations proactively, but also to publish reports about the consultations that were conducted. The reports must comprise feedback regarding all received comments, which includes explanations why comments were not accepted
The amendments to the Croatian Government Rules of Procedure (OG 121/2012) stipulate that draft laws, other regulations and laws must be accompanied by reports on conducted consultations with the interested public upon referring them to the Government Procedure
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