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- 1. 1 Open Nepal
- 3. http://opennepal.net To achieve this we need... Open data Intermediaries Information users Ecosystem Tools Capacity 3
- 4. http://opennepal.net Open Nepal is... A collaborative platform to promote the availability of better data and provide tools, skills and support to help those in the development ecosystem to access, analyse and use data for more inclusive and effective development 4
- 7. http://opennepal.net Overview of NFN • National NGO Platform / National Federation of NGOs in Nepal - established in 1991 • A leading Civil Society Organization in Nepal with 5584 member NGOs • 75 District Chapters, 5 Regional Committees and a Central Working Committee 7 Defend rights & autonomy of NGOs Capacity development of member organizations Advocacy and lobby on public issues and concerns Defend human rights, democ racy and individual freedom Expand the spaces of NGOs in policy making
- 8. http://opennepal.net Core Functions • Defend rights and autonomy of NGOs • Capacity development of member organizations • Advocacy and lobby on public issues and concerns • Defend human rights, democracy and individual freedom • Expand the spaces of NGOs in policy making 8
- 9. http://opennepal.net Open data for development effectiveness • To contribute to transparency, accountability, effective service delivery and better results of development efforts • To enhance access to information and data, information and data based planning, evidence based advocacy and development efforts • To assess the contribution of NGOs in national development • For coordination of development efforts, avoiding duplication and overlaps, equitable distribution of resources, looking into off-budget aid and its results 9
- 10. http://opennepal.net What we hope to achieve? • Establish database and portal of NGO Federation members and other NGOs, feeding in data to Open Nepal Portal—aid, areas, sectors, results • Awareness building: open data, access, use, results— increasing demand and use • Establishing links and collaboration with stakeholders: AMP, SWC, World Bank, and other online initiatives; localizing Open Nepal portal • Promote transparency, accountability, effectiveness and credibility of NGOs through open data 10
- 11. http://opennepal.net What we hope to achieve? • Capacity of the NGOs enhanced in accessing the information on aid, analyzing data and information and using it for advocacy • Facilitate dialogues among stakeholders on aid transparency, aid effectiveness, development effectiveness, and good governance • Develop NFN as an information intermediary helping to make information on resources accessible to NGOs • Build and deliver skills and tools for data and budget analysis, evidence based advocacy 11
- 12. Overview of Freedom Forum 12 Causes: social accountability democracy human rights Focus: press freedom freedom of expression RTI Works through: research capacity building evidence-based advocacy media mobilization campaign programme implementation Freedom Forum is an independent civil society organization incepted in 2005... Current work: public finance management, budget openness, aid governance, political and parliamentary accountability and electoral reform
- 13. http://opennepal.net Freedom Forum and Open Nepal • Aid transparency is central to the country like Nepal which is heavily dependent on foreign aid and grants • Freedom Forum wants to contribute to promote aid transparency by improving the availability and accessibility of information about aid resources in Nepal • Similarly, our hand-on experience on budget survey and advocacy has provided us impetus to expand the work on open data and aid transparency that we call Open Nepal Initiative 13
- 14. http://opennepal.net Freedom Forum - lessons 14
- 15. http://opennepal.net Freedom Forum work on Open Nepal • Work to strengthen capacity of economic-beat journalists and parliamentarian secretariat employees to make them able to use, analyse and impart aid information as intermediaries • Reaching out to citizen for increasing their awareness level on ATA issues through budget/aid literacy programme, booklets and radio programmes will be our another key area for intervention of the initiative • Research on impact of open data in Nepal as part of international ODDC project 15
- 16. http://opennepal.net Objectives for Freedom Forum • Data-driven journalism help to support the media and parliamentary support staff as a catalyst to promote open, transparent and accountable governance in country • Understand, document and share the impacts of open data and lessons learned from Open Nepal work 16