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Openness Index: The tenth wave of measuring the openness of the executive and legislative branches has begun

byФондација Метаморфозис

The tenth wave of measuring the openness of the executive and legislative branches in four countries from the Western Balkans region, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, through the Openness Index, has begun. The measurement is carried out by the ACTION SEE network – Accountability, Technology and Institutional Openness Network in Southeast Europe with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy through the project “Leveraging technology to promote institutional accountability and transparency.”

The Openness Index is a composite indicator that has been determining the degree of openness of state institutions in the Western Balkans towards citizens and society for ten years in a row and was created to define the extent to which citizens in the Western Balkans receive convenient and understandable information from institutions.

To measure the degree of institutional openness, the partners of the ACTION SEE network, following international standards, recommendations, as well as examples of good practices, monitor institutions according to specific quantitative and qualitative indicators, such as: access to information on the official websites of the institutions, the quality of the legal framework for certain issues, other sources of information to the public, published data on the operation of the institution, public procurement, information on the spending of public money, etc.

Based on the ninth wave of measurements conducted during 2025, the publications “Assessment of the Good Governance of the Executive Branch in North Macedonia and the Region through the Openness Index “ and “Assessment of the Good Governance of the Legislative Branch in North Macedonia and the Region through the Openness Index” were produced, which provide a detailed overview of the openness of individual institutions, and contain specific recommendations and steps to improve their openness.

The project “Leveraging technology to promote institutional accountability and transparency” is implemented by the Center for Democratic Transition (Montenegro) in partnership with the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society, Citizens Association Why Not? (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Partners for Democratic Change Serbia (Serbia), with financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy.

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