Tracker - Open Government Partnership (OGP) NAP 2

Cabinet approval is obtained to appoint Integrity Officers in all public institutions and circular instructions are issued accordingly.

Role and responsibilities of Integrity Officers are disseminated by electronic, print and digital media and a public awareness campaign. Integrity Officer contact details and functions are displayed at the entrance of all public institutions (trilingual and Braille) and websites.

Citizen Charters providing information on the type of services provided, costs for such services, delivery time etc are displayed in every service providing institution

Examine procedures and circulars in operation in the institution, and where such procedures and circulars lack clarity or are complex, take necessary steps to make them simple and clear.

Where required, under the guidance of the Head of the Institution, appoint a ‘Facilitating Officer’ to guide and facilitate the public.

1. Asset declaration online portal introduced with a public launch following relevant legal amendments.

2. Citizens are provided information on public access through a public information campaign using electronic, print and digital media

3. Creating an ‘Office of Assets Disclosure’ to be responsible for collecting, analyzing and taking necessary actions on assets declarations

4. CIABOC provides annual reports on the status of prosecutions undertaken based on asset declaration verification

1. A disabled-friendly online RTI request portal will be established by the Ministry with the support of Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) /other contracted entities with 10 public authorities enlisted initially, and with 50% of all public authorities enlisted and accessible by end of NAP period. The Ministry will conduct testing for user and disability friendliness, prior to the launch of the portal. The portal will track gendered data on RTI usage on the portal.

2. E-record management system is developed and introduced to 10 public authorities. The number of public authorities will be increased to 50% of all public authorities by end of NAP period.

3. There is a 50% increase in RTI requests made over the previous year, and information given, by 30th August, 2019 based on RTI Commission Annual Report; 75% on top of 2019 baseline, by 30th August, 2020. A summary data sheet will be available for public access by the Ministry.

4. Ministry in consultation with citizens and engaged CSOs will guide 5 selected Divisional Secretariats, 5 District Secretariats and 5 Ministries each NAP year, to continually make available proactive information as per Regulation 20 of Gazette No. 66/2004 (mandatory) on their respective websites and physical premises on a monthly basis. The names of these public authorities will be made publicly available each year.

1. A sustainable mechanism will be introduced to enable citizen participation for health improvement through formalizing existing networks of Sarvodaya and Peoples Health Movement.

2. A people and professional friendly ministry website will be developed, improving the image of the organization in health development whilst engaging all for health improvement.

3. A drug supply management information system up to primary care level is created informing stock outs to both providers and people.

4. Information on food based research relevant to CKDu will be made available to citizens through an organized communication strategy.

5. An evidence based mental health improvement communication campaign will be launched in schools and other social institutions

1. School Drug Prevention Committees will be established and strengthened in 6400 secondary schools to implement strategies to discourage use of drugs among school children.

2. Strategies will be implemented through Rural Committees to discourage drug use by children outside school premises.

3. Drug prevention activities for children will be implemented through the intervention of religious leaders and religious places.

4. The School Drug Prevention Programme will be monitored.

5. An Annual Summit will be held to review the School Drug Prevention Programme and share best practices.

1. Government Information Center knowledge platforms (GIC – 1919 trilingual Call Centre, GIC Website and Social Media sites) are operationalized with content support for information on government services of additional 80 government organizations.

2. New features are introduced for GIC-1919 platforms to support differently-abled citizens to access information on government services.

3. Multiple communication approaches are implemented to increase citizens’ awareness of government services provided via GIC-1919 platforms. Surveys will be conducted on citizens’ awareness on GIC1919 services every 6 months with citizens’ participation. The Survey reports will be made publicly available at six month intervals.

4. Number of open data-sets hosted in www.data.gov.lk is increased from 300 to 2,000.

5. The effectiveness of all government websites is rated based on their performance and an assessment report is produced bi-annually.

1. Fully functioning and update databases are available for farmers to receive crop cultivation and crop forecasting information.

2. An e-Agriculture Platform is in place as a decision support tool for farmers to obtain relevant information on Agriculture such as crop recommendation, seed availability, technology availability, local officers to be contacted for advice and market information. Updating existing databases, development of APIs to link them with e-Agriculture Platform and development of new databases if needed.

3. A database is developed for farmers to receive daily price list on crop produces.

4. A Web / Mobile app based service is introduced linking buyers and sellers of agriculture sector with the possibility of exploring the local and international market in agriculture.

5. IT infrastructure development, publicity and capacity building.

A project proposal to provide housing for PwDs to fulfill the housing requirement by 2020 will be made and special budgetary allocation will be secured.

Cabinet approval will be sought to establish a National Housing Steering Committee with a mandate of ensuring the participation of all relevant stakeholders to solve the housing problems of PwDs and monitor the process. The Steering Committee will include PwDs in the membership.

The housing programme will be implemented with the participation of relevant stakeholders at the district level.

The progress of the housing programme will be monitored quarterly.

The existing bill is revised based on public consultations in line with UNCPRD by the Ministry in charge.

The draft will be available in alternative modes of communication for persons with disabilities (i.e. Braille, Sign Language etc.) for comments and feedback.

Approval by the Parliamentary subcommittee and enactment of revised bill by Parliament.

The Ministry implements island wide publicity campaign on the provisions of the revised Disability Rights Act highlighting the entitlement of persons with disabilities.

Disaster Management Centre (DMC) will review the existing preparedness plans through a consultative process including affected parties, CBOs and other stakeholders.

DMC will facilitate community and stakeholders to prepare Disaster Preparedness Plans at District, Divisional and Grama Niladhari Division levels.

Disaster management guidelines will be prepared through a consultative process with marginalized/ vulnerable groups. Consultative meetings will be held with all stakeholders to identify the needs. The guidelines will be disseminated and training on the implementation of the guidelines will be provided to stakeholders.

A system is established to effectively disseminate early warning messages to grass-root level communities. Early warning messages will be relayed via SMS to identified community leaders to be conveyed to other community members in the area.

Based on the District Divisional and GN plans, a comprehensive Disaster Preparedness Programme including a government response mechanism is developed by each Ministry.

Conduct wide stakeholder consultations to review the existing National Environmental Policy to identify gaps and areas of improvement to address climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Formulate a new National Environmental Policy that will comprehensively address climate change aspects in a participatory manner.

A Single Employment law will be drafted by the Ministry of Labour will also include “Equal pay for work of equal value” (in line with the ILO Convention 100 obligations) mandatory in the informal sector. Operation of the Regulations will be monitored and gender segregated data on wages in the informal sector will be collected by the Ministry of Labour. National consultation report will be published in open data format in the Labour Ministry website in all 3 languages.

National level consultations will be held with relevant ministries and civil society organisations on the draft National Action Plan on women headed households in districts where WHH are predominant. The consultation report will be published in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs website in all 3 languages in open data format. Final policy and plans will be presented to WHH and implemented.

Sexual Harassment Committees will be established in at least 75% of the Ministries for the formal sector. Training and monitoring of the Committees will be carried out by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Annual reports of the Sexual Harassment Committee (including for example number of cases, nature of cases, action taken, victim protection measures etc.) will be published in websites of individual ministries in all 3 languages. Ministry of Women’s Affairs will collate all Committee reports and publish one report annually in the website in all 3 languages in open data format.

A minimum of 1/3 representation of women in Parliament will be ensured by extending pressure and lobbying with political parties for the provision of a quota system in parliament through amending election laws along with CSOs. The Consultation report with the political parties will be published in the ministry website in all 3 languages. June 2019 February 2021.

In continuation of the 2016-2018 OGP NAP, land laws will be amended to: a) allow for State Land allocation in joint ownership; b) repeal the III Schedule of the LDO; c) repeal sections on succession.

Pilot local councils representing 3 districts in the Western Province will be selected and council members and citizens will be provided basic awareness on the Council Committee system. The awareness programmes will reflect the capacity of citizen participation in Council Committees.

Committees with citizen representation will be established in pilot councils. Technical support and skills for the effective functioning of the Committees will be provided with the assistance of external facilitators.

A maximum of 5 by-laws will be prepared in consultation with the Council Committees. The by-laws will be identified on the basis of required needs through a consultation process facilitated by an external consultant. They will be drafted with the assistance of legal officers and with support from the Western Provincial Council.

A statute to strengthen the “Prajamandala” at Provincial Council level – Western Province will be developed.

A mechanism will be provided to provide scaling up support to replicate the experience in other Pradeshiya Sabha, Urban Councils and Municipal Councils.

Surveys will be conducted by the National Transport Commission to collect information for route designing.

A transport related information database will be created and access will be provided through transport ministry’s website

A coordinating mechanism will be developed by the National Transport Commission to obtain feedback regarding the transport service from passengers and a grievance handling mechanism will be set up.

New laws and policies (eg: Alternative care policy) will be introduced and implemented.

Child Rights Protection Committees at rural, divisional, district, provincial and national levels will be strengthened.

Societal awareness on the importance of child rights protection will be enhanced.

Take action based on the study made on the reintegration of institutionalized children into society.