[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1164, 285], "category": "Text", "text": "This has negatively impacted those affected since the first initiatives to promote open contracting in Honduras were launched several years ago. According to the \"Open Contracting in Honduras: Progress and Challenges\" report published by the Latin American Initiative for Open Data (ILDA), Honduras has lagged behind other countries in the region that have advanced more rapidly in the implementation of the Open Contracting Data Standard (EDCA), such as Colombia, Mexico, and Chile."}, {"bbox": [97, 311, 1164, 446], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action aims to promote citizen oversight of infrastructure projects and strengthen the systematization, dissemination, and socialization of public information in open formats through the creation of a citizen module in the National Open Data Portal. This portal will provide information about public infrastructure projects, under the Open Contracting Standard for Infrastructure Data (OC4IDS), which will allow access to information on the entire infrastructure project cycle (process and contract, until the successful or unsuccessful delivery of the project)."}, {"bbox": [97, 470, 1164, 551], "category": "Text", "text": "Also, it will address the limited access to reliable, complete, and comparable data on contracting and infrastructure projects, which hinders monitoring, evaluation, and citizen participation in this sector which is vital to the country's development."}, {"bbox": [97, 576, 1164, 684], "category": "Text", "text": "At present, no initiative seems to provide technical advice to the public, private, and civil society sectors on the multiple measures that can be adopted to prevent, control, and manage corruption risks more efficiently. Hence, this action is intended to improve reporting of acts of corruption and encourage the public and civil society to play an increasingly important role in the controls and fight against corruption."}, {"bbox": [97, 709, 1164, 764], "category": "Text", "text": "In this context, the Action will promote good governance and transparency as key principles for improving the effective implementation of the Global Gateway Investment Agenda."}, {"bbox": [97, 789, 1067, 844], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders (duty bearers and right holders) and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [97, 869, 718, 897], "category": "Text", "text": "- Secretariat for Transparency and Fight against Corruption (STLCC)"}, {"bbox": [97, 899, 995, 928], "category": "Text", "text": "- Public sector (State institutions responsible for ENTAH and PAEAH commitments and actions).¹²"}, {"bbox": [97, 930, 624, 958], "category": "Text", "text": "- Multi-stakeholder Forum of the Open State Action Plan¹³"}, {"bbox": [97, 961, 469, 989], "category": "Text", "text": "- Private sector (Honduran and European)"}, {"bbox": [97, 992, 276, 1019], "category": "Text", "text": "- Local governments"}, {"bbox": [97, 1022, 501, 1050], "category": "Text", "text": "- Gender focal points of the institutions listed"}, {"bbox": [97, 1053, 704, 1080], "category": "Text", "text": "- Academic sector (Universities, academic networks, among others)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1083, 1057, 1111], "category": "Text", "text": "- Civil Society Organizations (women, youth, indigenous peoples, senior citizens, social movements, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [93, 1154, 603, 1188], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [86, 1208, 488, 1240], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 1248, 1134, 1356], "category": "Text", "text": "The overall objective of this action is to contribute to good governance in public management in Honduras by increasing institutional integrity and accountability, strengthening the administrative framework, the capacity to prevent and combat corruption and improve asset recovery as well as improving the role of civil society in their advocacy, oversight and civil role in anticorruption efforts."}, {"bbox": [97, 1380, 478, 1408], "category": "Text", "text": "The specific objectives of this action are:"}, {"bbox": [86, 1511, 621, 1534], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² Public sector refers to all the institutions mentioned in the ENTAH."}, {"bbox": [86, 1534, 1143, 1623], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹³ The newly formed multi-stakeholder forum has also brought in an advisory team that includes key government agencies, such as the Ministry of Finance, the High Court of Auditors (TSC), the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) and the National Anticorruption Commission (CAN). It includes all the major government stakeholders and a wide-ranging, diverse group of civil society organizations that play an essential role in the implementation of the OGP's just launched Open Government Action Plan (PEAEH)."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 33"}]