Latin America

The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has now launched the second IRM report on Brazil, which can also be found below. The IRM’s goal is to deliver a credible, non-partisan description of the process behind the implementation of a country’s…

After joining the OGP in January 2012, Costa Rica took the decision to present its first National Action Plan at the OGP International Steering Committee meeting a year later in April 2013. ‘We didn’t want to rush the process. It…

Since  August,  2012,  BEMFAM  (Family  Welfare  in  Brazil),  a  Brazilian  NGO  focused  on  family planning,  sexual  and  reproductive  health  and  sexual  and  reproductive  rights,  has  been developing  a  project  in  partnership  with  IPPF  (International Planned Parenthood  Federation) on the Brazilian’s…

The Open Government Partnership, National Democratic Institute, and the Congress of Chile are pleased to announce a webinar to introduce the Legislative Openness Working Group on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 9:00 am EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below. REGISTER for this webinar here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEx1Z3Z1WndTRVVGeUY1WTNlcnNCR0E6MA…

This blog post originally appeared on the OpeningParliament.org Blog and has been republished with permission from the author.  Last Wednesday  (24 July 2013) in Bogotá, Colombia, Senator Hernán Larraín, Chair of the Chilean Congress’s Bicameral Commission on Transparency, announced efforts to create a…

The Federal Access to Information and Data Protection Institute (IFAI) is one of the world’s formative and most respected Right to Information (RTI) establishments and it was instrumental in developing and shaping the OGP. ’Back in 2010, one of our…

The Open Government Partnership and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency is pleased to announce a webinar to introduce the OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 8:00 am EST. We hope you can join us.…

The Peruvian state and the administration of President Ollanta Humala decided to join the OGP in September 2011, thereby reaffirming the President’s priorities of enhancing transparency, fighting corruption, improving accountability and increasing civic engagement. In November 2011, the first meeting…

En el ámbito internacional, la Agenda para el Desarrollo Post-2015 es la siguiente estrategia para que los países miembros de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) persigan nuevos objetivos de desarrollo sustentables que retomen y rebasen a los actuales…