participating in the initiative for Open government partnership and create discussion environment between civil society organizations and government institutions regarding experiences and challenges in implementing the second action plan and co -creating proposed measures for the third action plan. Six working groups facilitated by representatives from nongovernmental organizations gave 66 suggestions and guidelines for the third action plan during the conference concerning the following priority topics: participatory policy-making, open data, freedom of information, preventing corruption and promoting good governance, effective public resources management (fiscal transparency) and local level openness. The conference was attended by 97 state institutions and civil society organizations representatives working in areas relevant to the Open Government Partnership, as well as universities and diplomatic missions’ representatives. ü The process for defining the draft measures for the first draft-version of 2016-2018 Open Government Partnership Action Plan was conducted during the period from March 24 to April 30 2016. Thus there were four thematic workshops, managed by individual priority coordinators by relevant government institutions. Representatives of civil society organizations and government institutions gave their suggestions on thematic workshops and the first public event during the work was focused on prioritizing and defining the draft measures in accordance with the criteria of Independent reporting mechanism. 19 commitments with 80 activities on six priority topics were defined in this phase2. ü During April 2016, the interested parties had the opportunity to submit their comments and observations on the first draft of the action plan. Notification regarding the consultation process is available on the following link. 7 new proposed measures were submitted during the one month open on-line consultation process. In the same period, the received comments by the Support Department under the initiative Open Government Partnership were forwarded to all working groups for consideration. ü The Second public event - Dialogue “Open Government Partnership dialogue with civil society organizations on 2016-2018 National Action Plan " was held on May 11 2016, presenting the first draft 2016-2018 National Open Government Partnership Action Plan drafted in cooperation with NGOs and conducting discussion between civil society organizations and government institutions to develop a second draft of the Action plan. The participants worked in six thematic groups: participatory policy-making, open data, public access to information, reducing corruption and promoting the rule of law, efficient management of public resources (fiscal transparency) and local level openness. The groups were set up depending on the interests by representatives, with prior registration. The working groups discussed the measures that were proposed and developed during an open dialogue with civil society organizations on the first twoday public event, the measures obtained during the one-month consultation period on the portal edemokrtija and proposals presented at the event itself. Special attention was paid to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The working groups had the opportunity to exchange views and determine the relevance of draft measures from the first draft of the 2016-2018 Open Government Partnership Action Plan for the purposes set out 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The event was attended by over 110 state institutions and civil society organizations representatives working in 2 Participatory policy creation, Open Data, Freedom of Information, Anti-corruption and promoting good governance, effective management of public resources (fiscal transparency) and local level openness. 8