REPORT ON THE MONITORING OF MUNICIPALITIES AND CENTERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANNING REGIONS FOR 2024
The Agency, in accordance with its competencies, but also as an added value of free access to public information in relation to the proactive publication of information in accordance with Article 10 of the Law on FAPI, conducted monitoring of 90 holders, i.e. on the websites of the holders from the Local Self-Government Units, the community of the Republic of North Macedonia local self-government units and Centers for the Development of Planning Regions published on the List of Information Holders on the Agency’s website. The monitoring was carried out in the period from September 2 to October 15, 2024.
Proactively published information of the holders should be easily accessible and understandable, usable, relevant to citizens and regularly updated. Information is a prerequisite for responsible government and a basis for democratic processes – information about the work of the holders enables citizens to adequately draw conclusions and participate in decision-making on issues that are of interest. Transparency and access to public information are inseparable instruments in the fight against corruption.
From the monitored 81 local self-government units as holders of information, according to the monitoring methodology, 27 holders have a high level of transparency, 35 holders have a medium level of transparency, and 19 have a low level of transparency. It is notable this year that no holder is in the category with a very low level of transparency, and the number of holders with a high and medium level of transparency has increased, which shows that the holders are making an effort and contributing to implementing proactive transparency in their work. The monitored holders have a mean value of proactive transparency, ie 64.4%, with a tendency for high transparency of the holders, if this trend of publishing information on their web pages continues.
According to the results of the monitoring, the municipalities of Valandovo and Demir Hisar are the most transparent with 64 points, followed by the four municipalities: Probishtip, Kriva Palanka, Berovo and Bitola, with 60 points. 58, 57.5 and 57 points.
Overall, 13.58% improved their transparency at a high, 14.81% improved it at a medium level and 6.17% improved it at a low level of active transparency.
The monitoring of the websites of the Municipalities and Centers for the Development of the Planning Regions showed that as holders of public information, they should improve and strengthen as much as possible their proactivity towards the citizens and place the information they publish in a separate banner/link under the title LIST OF INFORMATION/FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION, which will make it available to applicants and thus reduce the number of requests for free access to public information.
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