of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. they serve, further increasing the “trust deficit” challenge. COMMITMENT 4 OVERVIEW CHALLENGES Develop an integrated and publicly accessible portal of environmental management information The portal will integrate spatial data on biodiversity, ecosystems, water, agriculture, protected areas, conservation areas, air quality priority areas, important bird areas and other environmental data to identify and map environmentally sensitive areas at a national level. Users of the portal will be able to view and interrogate the data in map format: Department of Environmental Affairs Development of a centralised depository for environmental data that can provide the public with access to information on sensitive environments COMMITMENT 5 OVERVIEW CHALLENGES Institutionalisation of Community Advice Offices as part of the wider Justice network This commitment seeks to strengthen the advice office sector by ensuring that the sector has the skills to lead advocacy and communications initiatives critical for long-term sector sustainability. Skills and knowledge in networking and engaging civic groupings and government are critical for shaping policy and Institutionalisation of Community Advice Offices as part of the wider justice network, making the advice offices a permanent feature at grassroots level in communities as a means to advance access to justice at the coalface and frontline of community engagement.
Level Principles on Beneficial Ownership Transparency and implement a register of legal persons and arrangements which is available to the public in open data formats, in order to protect the integrity and transparency of the global financial and public procurement systems: Department of Public Service and Administration and Treasury. responsible for developing, implementing and reporting on a Country Implementation/Action Plan. Development of the Country Implementation Plan in order to address challenge of transparency of legal persons and arrangements in the global financial system. legal arrangements. Improve the transparency of legal persons and arrangements in order to protect the integrity and transparency of the global financial system. Open Government Partnership Grand Challenges Improving public services- measures that address the full spectrum of citizen services including health, education, criminal justice, water, telecommunications and any other relevant service areas, by fostering public service improvement or private sector innovation Increasing public integrity – measures that address corruption and public ethics, access to information, campaign finance reform, and civil society freedom. More effectively managing public resources –measures that address budgets, procurement, natural resources and foreign assistance. Creating communities – measures that address public safety, the security sector, disaster and crisis response and environmental threats. Increasing corporate accountability- measures that address corporate responsibility on issues such as the environment, anti –corruption, consumer protection and community engagement. 5. CONCLUSION The steps followed in the preparation of South Africa’s OGP 3rd Country Action Plan involved an extensive participatory and consultative process that ensured that all stakeholders involved in the programme were active drivers of the process and owners of its end-product.
The activities followed in the development of the NAP included public participation forums and engagements through Imbizo, stakeholder workshops and meetings with various government departments to solicit inputs and commitments. South Africa’s NAP illustrates a deep adherence to the OGP principles while ensuring new and innovative solutions to governance through its presentation of new commitments aimed at strengthening open government and improved service delivery. These commitments have a close link to most of the issues that were raised during public consultations, stakeholder engagements and Izimbizo across the Provinces. For example, the lack of education and health infrastructure in some Provincial districts was cited as a challenge in human settlements planning. This can be addressed with the development and utilization of Land Use Data in the planning and implementation phases. The same information will contribute to addressing some of the environmental challenges identified during consultations. 6. NATIONAL ACTION PLAN MATRIX OGP Strengthening Based Monitoring in order to enhance Accountability and Performance. Level of access to information on citizen’s rights and expectations of quality of public service delivery Civic Participation, Public Accountability, Technology, Innovation for Openness and Accountability Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Mr Jonathan Timm Director: Monitoring Open Budgeting Level of public participation in government planning and budgeting processes Effectively Managing Public Resources through Access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability South African National Treasury Dr. Kay Brown Director: Expenditure Planning
Back to Basics Programme of civic participation in the provision of basic services Access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Ms. Gigi Gosnell Chief Director: Office of the Director-General Development an integrated and publicly accessible portal for environmental management information Accessibility and usage of an integrated environmental management information portal to citizens Harness the power of technology to increase access to information and service delivery planning Department of Environmental Affairs Mr. Deon Marais Chief GISc Professional National DEA Institutionalisation of Community Advice Offices as part of the wider Justice network Levels of skills, knowledge and awareness of community based paralegals Access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices Director: Nomboniso Maqubela Development of Pilot Open Data Portal for South Africa Level of development of Open Data Portal for South Africa Harness the power of technology to increase access to information and service delivery planning Department of Public Service and Administration Mr Zaid Aboobaker Chief Director: Office of the Government CIO 7. Roll-out Open Government Awareness Raising Campaign: Government Communications and Information Services. Number of OGP awareness campaigns rolled out per Effectively Managing Public Resources through Access to information, public Government Communication Information System (GCIS) Mr. Donald Liphoko
province annually accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability 8. Implement Africa’s action plan on the G20 High Level Principles on Beneficial Ownership Transparency by implementing a register of legal persons Global Corruption Effectively Managing Public Resources through Access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability Department of Public Service and Administration Mr Govender Deputy Director-General Governance