Open Government Partnership New Zealand National Action Plan 2018-2020
Progress report: October – December 2020
Commitment 10: Monitoring the effectiveness of public body information management practices
Lead agency: Archives New Zealand (Department of Internal Affairs)
Objective: To make the management of government information more visible and therefore transparent by developing and implementing a monitoring framework that supports public reporting on the effectiveness of information management by central and local government agencies.
Ambition: New Zealanders and public agencies will be able to see the standards for management of government information and the rates of progress central and local government agencies are making towards meeting those standards.
OGP values: Transparency and accountability
Milestones
Milestone 1
Develop a proposed monitoring framework that reflects the Information and Records Management Standard and includes a suite of consistent and relevant measures to enable public visibility of the effectiveness of agency information management. This could include technology to enable a whole-of-system view of government information holdings and the effectiveness of its management
Commenced July 2018 – December 2018
Progress: comepleted
Milestone 2
Communication and engagement: the proposed framework and its potential options will be consulted on with regulated parties and other potential users
Commenced July 2018 – July 2019
Progress: comepleted
Milestone 3
Rolling it out. Ensuring that the implemented monitoring activity is useful for, and easily used by, the regulated agencies to improve performance and that a common view of results is available to all stakeholders (including the public)
April 2019 – July 2020
Progress: comepleted
What we have been doing
- NA
How we are including diverse voices
- NA
How we are keeping diverse communities informed
- NA
What’s next?
This Commitment is complete
Links – evidence of progress and milestones achieved
- Findings from Regulatory Programme news item
- Open Government Partnership page on the Archives New Zealand website
- Monitoring Framework page on our Archives NZ website
- 28 January 2020 edition of the Dominion Post (and now online on Stuff) contextualising Archives NZ’s role in administering the Public Records Act and regulating government information management: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118797967/survey-finds-worrying-holes-in-management-and-accessibility-of-public-records