ECLAC holds a Workshop for the implementers of the VI National Open State Plan of Chile

On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) through the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), together with the Public Integrity and Transparency Commission of the Ministry Secretariat General of the Presidency of Chile, developed a workshop whose purpose was to strengthen the capacities of the implementers of the 11 commitments contained in the VI Open State Action Plan of Chile within the framework of the Open Government Partnership (OGP, for its acronym in English).

The objective of this workshop was to lay the methodological foundations so that the institutions in charge of implementing the Plan’s initiatives can monitor and follow up on each one through results-based management tools and the Logical Framework methodology.

The VI Open State Plan of Chile, whose initiatives were co-created with civil society, lasts 4 years, and is based on the principles of transparency, participation and collaboration as the main axes of the Open Government paradigm.

Some of the implementing institutions are: The National Congress, the Public Criminal Defender’s Office, the Judiciary, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation; Ministry of the Environment, the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, among others.

This VI Plan emphasized expanding the principles to other State powers, as well as decentralization. Likewise, issues of gender, environment and climate change were promoted. Along these lines, initiatives were included that seek to apply transparency standards in areas that, until the last Open Government action plan, did not appear, such as the implementation of an international transparency standard in the fishing field, a proposal that arises from citizens and that the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture decides to collect and take on as a challenge within the framework of this Action Plan.

With respect to citizen participation, eight commitments include, in the different stages of their implementation, some participatory initiative seeking to make it a regular practice in their management. This appears as a positive signal from public services that, by formalizing their intention to be part of Chile’s new action plan, are committed to promoting concrete initiatives that contemplate citizen participation in its different forms as a requirement of their public policies and They value it as a tool to shorten the distance with citizens, legitimize their actions and regain their trust.

In addition, the workshop given by the ILPES of ECLAC also had the purpose of laying the foundations so that each implementing team can identify the elements of the results chain for its commitment and identify at least one indicator for each of the elements of said chain. , with the objective of being able to monitor and evaluate the commitment.