PP10 Values and Operating Principles

To lead change and improve access to information, participation, and justice...

Accountability: We should be accountable for implementing our commitments and achieving our objectives to our peers, our constituencies, and the international community.

Transparency: We should share information about our commitments and our work to meet them with our peers, our constituencies, and the international community, and we must encourage examination of our progress.

Equity and Inclusiveness: We should include all partners in decision-making and ensure that the outcomes of decisions are equitable.

Oriented to results: We should work to achieve practical and sustainable results in improving public access to information, participation, and justice in decision-making at the national level.

Efficiency: We should achieve maximum improvement in national systems of public participation with the resources available.

Respect: We should respect a diversity of approaches and solutions to specific national or organizational needs for improvement of access to information, participation and justice. We likewise should recognize and respect the diverse contributions by partners to the Partnership process.