Tender

Tender Opportunity - Open Government Partnership Exploratory Research

Building Change Trust Limited

Building Change Trust Limited

On behalf of the recently convened NI Open Government Partnership (OGP) Civil Society Working Group, the Building Change Trust is looking for an experienced consultant to undertake research exploring the potential for the implementation of the OGP in NI.

This tender is part of the Trust’s ‘Creative Space for Civic Thinking’ theme, the overall aim of which is to enable the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector to better facilitate meaningful participation of citizens in decision-making processes.

 

Within this thematic area one key strand of work to date has been to explore the potential for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) to be implemented in Northern Ireland. This international governmental initiative has been endorsed by both the UK and Irish Governments, as well as more than 60 other governments around the world, and functions in each signatory country by way of a government-civil society partnership.However, as yet the intiative has not been implemented at sub-national or devolved level, with the implication that many of the commitments in the UK action plan do not apply in Northern Ireland. In recent months the Building Change Trust has undertaken a series of events to raise awareness of this initiative amongst civil society in Northern Ireland, partcularly with the VCSE sector. This led to the convening of a NI OGP Civil Society Working Group on 12th June and one of the outcomes of the initial discussion was a request for the Trust to resource some exploratory research in order to enable the group to develop a strategy and action plan. The main tasks to be undertaken as part of this research are as follows:

  •  An analysis of the UK action plan to identify the status of each commitment in Northern Ireland
  • A mapping of other existing or planned NI Executive commitments that could fit under the open government umbrella

  • An assessment (through conversations with key political and civil service stakeholders, ombudsmen, commissioners, etc.) of the potential of an OGP campaign in Northern Ireland

  • A (limited) survey of the VCSE sector to identify further issues for a potential OGP campaign and gauge their relative importance

  • Make recommendations in relation to the strategy, focus, timing, etc. of an OGP civil society campaign in Northern Ireland.

For full details please download the tender document attached to this post. The deadline for submission of proposals is 4pm on wednesday 30th July 2014. For any queries please contact Paul Braithwaite at [email protected] 

 

 

Last updated 9 years 8 months ago

Closing Date

Wednesday / 30 July 2014 1:00am

Location

Community House
Citylink Business Park
Belfast
BT12 4HQ
United Kingdom

Contact Details

Paul Braithwaite