A High-Level Public-Private Dialogue Conference on the Judicial Performance and Statistics Systems Evaluation is organized and underway today on 14 June. The Conference is organized within the framework of the “Multi-Faceted OGP Action: Open Justice & Anti-Corruption Commitments” project. The Conference is organized with participation of the RA Ministry of Justice, Supreme Judicial Council of the RA, “Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO and the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia.

According to Ms Lilya Afrikyan, OGP Coordinator/Point of Contact of the Office of the Prime Minister of the RA, the initiative has been a participatory platform for years, where the action plan of the Government of Armenia was formed exclusively in a participatory manner and the commitments were presented by civil society and citizens. “It is very important that all commitments really stemmed from the public need and were citizen-centered. We have had a number of commitments that have introduced transparency and anti-corruption systems, for example, the of declaration system of officials, the e-draft platform, which provides citizens the opportunity to be a participant.

It is for the first time that while developing the plan for 2022-24, we undertook the obligation of a statistical tool for the judicial system. At that time, the strategy of the judicial system had not yet been adopted and it was very difficult for the Government to undertake such a commitment.

I should mention that we received more ambitious proposals from the civil society and international organizations, but we understood that these proposals were not realistic and feasible, because first of all we need to have data, information based on which we would be able to analyze the processes and then understand how to move forward.

These two components, the evaluation of the judges and the design of the statistical tool, are directly related to each other. I am very happy that the analysis was carried out by our partners, on the basis of which the Ministry of Justice and our partners in the judicial system will be able to move forward in a more meaningful way.”

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