Social Audits in Service Delivery: An Annotated Bibliography
Explore research and empirical evidence from the last fifteen years on how social audits work and their main benefits.
State of Play Analysis
State of the Evidence: Open Contracting
Explore empirical evidence on the effects of open contracting on a range of outcomes, including cost savings and efficiency, reducing corruption, improving service delivery, and increasing social inclusion.
(When) Do Open Budgets Transform Lives? Progress and Next Steps in Fiscal Openness Research
As the field of fiscal openness evolves and grows interest, explore the state of research on its impacts and how it shapes the debate on its future directions.
The Benefits of Access to Justice for Economies, Societies, and the Social Contract: A Literature Review
Explore the benefits of access to justice, including the impacts of improved and expanded provision of justice services—both formal and informal—on economies, societies, and the social contract.
Policy Brief – Bolstering Online Political Advertising Policy in Europe
This policy brief lays out the key issues to address for regulating online political advertising in Europe and proposes ideas for how to address them through policy action grounded by open government, fundamental rights, and democratic values.
How Can We Get EU Recovery Right?
OGP is convening an online conversation on the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility. The conversation will bring together representatives from the European Commission, national governments and expert civil society to discuss how - and why it is so important - to ensure openness of recovery spending.
Protecting Civic Space: Lessons Learned and Actions to Take
A vibrant and robust civic space is essential to open government. While we mark 10 years since OGP’s founding this year, we’re also facing 15 years of a steady decline in civil liberties, including in some OGP countries. In recent…
OGP Policy Progress Reports
As OGP marks 10 years since its founding, see how the OGP platform and a growing global community of reformers in governments, civil society, business, media and international organizations have advanced a variety of policy areas.
New Frontiers in Open Government: Forging New Alliances for Accountability
Fiscal openness is a mainstay of the open government movement. In the last decade of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), over 90 percent of OGP members have made a total of 671 fiscal openness commitments...
What’s in the 2021 Local Action Plans
Above: Map of OGP countries with a 2020 action plan ■ OGP countries with a 2020 action plan | ■ Other OGP countries | ■ Non-OGP countries