3.i: ATI Policies, Regulations and Rules/Guidelines

Set policies, regulations, and guidelines.

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Every public agency establishes its goals and prioritizes its objectives regarding specific issues by setting what is defined as policies. Those policies are different from what one will call regulations, which provide the procedures to operate within the scope of action dictated by the legal system for the public administration. On a different level, one can also find a set of rules or guidelines that are created within each agency to orientate pubic officials on specific programmatic action. When developing the indicators and for the purpose of avoiding any confusion, we use the following definitions: * Policy: Formal statement of intention establishing goals and priorities. * Regulations: Formal set of binding operating procedures. * Rules/Guidelines: Specific written set of criteria to guide public officials on programmatic action. For example, the Ministry of Housing might have a policy to provide the public with online and in site access to complete information pertaining to all housing projects being developed in the country. To comply with this policy, the Ministry will develop binding regulations, including regulations on how often they will post information on the projects, means for providing the information, and costs for accessing the information. But in order for the public official to apply these regulations, detailed guidelines and procedures will need to be developed, such as the need to track requests, how request may be made, and how to collect fees.

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