challenge remains improvement of institutions openness both at central and local level through a thorough civil involvement in policy creating for good government, integrity and corruption risks prevention. Currently Macedonia has a legislation that guarantees public access to information, and institutions publish a wide range of information on their web portals, thus providing openness towards citizens and companies. Furthermore, open data have been introduced and open data prioritization mechanisms have been provided according to the citizen and companies requirements. Certainly, this remains to be the highest priority of the Partnership having in mind creation of open data standards and definition of open data licenses for their posting on the open data portal http://www.otvorenipodatoci.gov.mk. In the part of efficient public resource management, special attention has been paid to increasing institutions’ transparency and accountability in view of public funds spending by publishing open format budget documents, publication and narrative explanation of health programs realization, as well as publication of public procurement standardized information on the stakeholders’ web pages. The fiscal transparency commitment remains in the focus of this Action plan. These achievements are basis for upgrading the determined priorities and achievements for 2016-2018, and the established system to organize the implementation and monitor the commitments in the second Action Plan will continue in 2016-2018 OGP Action Plan by establishing working groups for certain priority areas of the plan. DEVELOPMENT OF 2016-2018 OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP ACTION PLAN Experiences from previous Action Plans and the five “SMART” independent reporting mechanism recommendations1 were basic guidelines in organizing and implementing the elaboration and development process for the Action Plan commitments that address current society challenges. The third 2016-2018 national open government partnership action plan involves wide range of activities that the Government has decided to undertake the following two years in order to strengthen and expand the development efforts for government transparency, improve institutional mechanisms efficiency for civil participation in the decision making process, budget transparency, data management and storing registers in state and public institutions as well as increase integrity standards for greater public access to technology for all citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. Internal and external Government consultations, including broad consultations with line ministries and other state administration authorities, as well as consultations with general public, civil organizations, academic institutions and private sector have taken central point in creating this Action plan. In February 2016 the e-democracy portal and the web site of the Ministry of Information Society and Administration published Notification regarding the beginning of the preparation process for the third 2016-2018 OGP Action Plan, along with the time frame for elaboration of the 2016-2018 OGP Action Plan that marked the official start of co-creation of 2016-2018 Open government partnership Action plan. Table1. Timeframe for drafting 2016-2018 Open government partnership action plan 1 Independent reporting mechanisms (IRM) Progress Report (2015) 6