Self-assessments
This is another assessment tool which is provided for in relation to every single assessment area. The breakdown of who needs to undertake the self-assessment is as follows:
- Central Measures: Oversight body
- Institutional Measures: Public Authorities
- Proactive Disclosure: Public Authorities
- Reactive Disclosure: Public Authorities
Only one self-assessment exercise should be directed at public authorities, which should cover the three relevant assessment areas. In most cases, it will make sense to provide the self-assessment to the PIO and then let him or her decide, in consultation with others at the public authority, how it will be done. For the oversight body, the self-assessment should probably be provided to the chief commissioner.
Note that the questions in these self-assessment questionnaires are very similar to the KII questions for members of the oversight body and IOs/senior officials. If this self-assessment is likely to go to the same person again (instead of another person at the oversight body or public authority), it might make sense just to do one or the other (i.e. either the KII or the self-assessment but not both).
Sample self-assessment questionnaires for both the oversight body and individual public authorities are provided as part of the Comprehensive Methodology.