Improving the Quality Law-Making Process for Empowered Society
Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) ·Lithuania
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">Our project aims to strengthen evidence-based monitoring of the legislative process and advocacy for improving the quality, transparency and accountability of the legislative process. The project addresses the problems related to systematic deficiencies of the legislative process. A high intensity of law-making, frequent legislative changes and adoption of laws through urgent procedures, low quality impact assessment, and a lack of transparency undermines the quality of legislation, public trust and civic engagement. Our target groups are working people, self-employed, socially sensitive groups, consumers and property owners. Due to their social and economic significance and sensitivity, for these groups the quality and transparency of law-making is key in terms of the defense of their constitutional liberties and rights. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">We will conduct nine law-making monitoring initiatives and publish nine reports, develop a scoreboard on the quality of the legislative process, which will be a convenient and attractive tool for assessing the compliance of legislative initiatives with legislative principles and rules, submit proposals for improving the quality of the legislative process, conduct advocacy and media communication campaigns. We will inform NGOs representing the target groups and promote their better-informed engagement in the law-making. The project will last 34 months.</span></span></span></p>