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Accessing the Right to Information

Learn about our comprehensive methodology for assessing the efficacy of right to information laws at a structural and institutional level.

Improving the Right to Information

Apply our methodology and use the results to enhance government performance of right to information laws.

The Right to Information and the Sustainable Development Goals

Apply our methodology and use the results to help your state meet and exceed Indicator 16.10.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Evaluation

Evaluation

The methodology has been applied to several jurisdictions to date, the results of which are publically accessible on this site.

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Methodology

Methodology

This Methodology allows for a far deeper assessment of the complex and difficult issues relating to RTI implementation than other methodologies.

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Resources

Resources

In addition to the full Methodology, the Centre for Law and Democracy has developed several resources to assist with applying it.

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About

The Right to Information Implementation Assessment: Comprehensive Methodology (i.e. the Right to Information Evaluation Methodology) is a companion project to the CLD’s RTI Rating. Where the RTI Rating focuses on the strength of legal frameworks implementing RTI, access to information laws, RTI Evaluation explores the effects of access to information laws.

Presented and warmly received at the 2019 Paris Peace Forum, the RTI Evaluation methodology was developed in part through a two-year pilot project in the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.