ILPES/CEPAL accompanied the Municipality of Maipú in the launch of its First Local Action Plan under the Alliance for Open Government

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), participated on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in the launch of the First Local Action Plan of the Municipality of Maipú, a municipality located in the western sector of the city of Santiago, Chile, which became the second in the country, after Peñalolén, to join the Open Government Partnership (OGP, for its acronym in English).

The ceremony was headed by the mayor of the commune Tomás Vodanovic. The Executive Secretary of the Public Integrity and Transparency Commission of the Government of Chile, Valeria Lubbert, and the Director of the Tribe Foundation, Tomás González, also participated. On behalf of ILPES/CEPAL, the specialist in Open Government, Alejandra Naser, participated.

The objective of the Alliance, in its local chapter, is to promote openness in the institutions that interact most directly with their citizens through the Open Government Alliance standards.

Action plans are the core of engagement in the OGP and are created by combining the forces of government and civil society, in a constant co-creation process in which ambitious commitments are defined to promote transparency, accountability and transparency. inclusion.

The commitments associated with the open government plans are concrete short-term initiatives through which the medium-term results identified in the Municipality’s Local Open Government Strategic Vision will be achieved.

In this context, the Local Open Government Plan of the Commune of Maipú contains 4 commitments:

1. Neighborhood Plans: The community participates and decides
2. Make Maipú a commune for girls, boys and adolescents
3. Together and Together we face the micro-dumps in Maipú
4. More and Better Deployment of Citizen Security

Each commitment uses open government values ​​such as transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and inclusiveness to better meet the needs of citizens.

At the launch of this First Plan, the Open Government specialist from ILPES, Alejandra Naser, emphasized the importance of co-creating plans with citizens and their impact on local governments, and reiterated ECLAC’s support to continue supporting, through assistance technique, to the municipal officials in charge of the implementation of the Plan. With this objective, workshops will be held that will seek to provide tools and resources to achieve a high degree of compliance with the commitments.