The Open Government Partnership has announced the names of a new group of researchers who will examine the fulfillment of the action plans of 39 countries.
While releasing the names on the OGP blog, an OGP official declined to disclose any information besides the names of the selected reviewers to FreedomInfo.org, citing OGP capacity issues and privacy concerns.
The reviewers selected will examine the action plans of the 39 “cohort 2” countries that joined the OGP in Brasilia in 2012. Reports by reviewrs of the first eight countries to join the OGP are expected out soon.
“Over 280 applications were submitted from candidates with a wide range of public policy experience in governance, transparency, accountability, and other relevant fields,” according to the announcement. It also said:
Researchers were chosen according to the criteria in the call for applications and vetted by the International Experts Panel (IEP), the IRM’s guiding body. Country governments had the opportunity to raise issues of conflict of interest and provide more information on the researcher, although the final decision remained with the IEP.
Orientation workshops are scheduled for the second and third week of September after which the reporting process will be officially launched. Public-facing draft reports are due early next year in order to feed into new country action plans.
The List of 39
The list of country researchers can be found below:
Albania: Gjergji Vurmo
Armenia: Artak Kyurumyan
Azerbaijan: Kenan Aslanli
Bulgaria: Lyudmila Georgieva
Canada: Mary Francoli
Chile: Andrea Sanhueza
Colombia: Gory Suarez
Croatia: Aida Bagi?
Czech Republic: Advokátní kancelá? Šikola a partne?i, s.r.o., Pavel ?erny lead researcher
Denmark: Mads Eberholst & Brigitte Alfter
Dominican Republic: Carlos E. Pimentel F.
El Salvador: Asociación Iniciativa Social para la Democracia, Jose Ramon Villalta
lead researcher
Estonia: Hille Hinsberg
Georgia: Transparency International Georgia, Lasha Gogidze lead researcher
Greece: Athanasios Priftis
Guatemala: Congreso Transparente (multiple researchers)
Honduras: Lester Ramírez Irías
Israel: Guy Dayan & Roy Peled
Italy: Andrea Menapace
Jordan: Al-Hayat Center for Civil Society Development, Mai E’liemat & Amer Bani Amer lead researchers
Kenya: Geoffrey Njeru
Latvia: Zinta Miezaine
Macedonia: Neda Korunovska
Moldova: Eduard Mihalas
Montenegro: Vanja Calovic
Netherlands: Stichting Saxion, Frans Jorna lead researcher
Peru: Javier Casas
Romania: Codru Vrabie
Slovakia: Matej Kurian
Republic of Korea: Geoffrey Cain
Spain: César Nicandro Cruz-Rubio
Sweden: Alina Östling
Tanzania: Ngunga Tepani
Ukraine: Transparency International Ukraine, Oleksii Khmara lead researcher
Uruguay: Instituto de Comunicación y Desarrollo, Anabel Cruz & Analia Bettoni lead researchers
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