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Salutations: Hearty congratulations to the Open Government Partners on the celebration of five years of hard work and unwavering commitment to the promotion of accountability and transparency. Well done to the OGP for the five successful years of relentless campaign…

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, Sri Lanka is one of the newest members of the Open Government Partnership and South Asia’s first, and I am happy to join you today to mark the Fifth Anniversary of this Partnership. I thank…

  20 September, 2016, New York Honorable Co-chairs; Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen, We express our gratitude to the Government of South Africa for its efforts towards advancing the important agenda of Open Government Partnership in the past year and wish…

Originally posted on the Reboot blog. Over the past two months, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know leaders of subnational open government in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana and Jalisco, Mexico. Their passion for what they do—whether pioneering new ways of…

Originally posted on WhiteHouse.gov. Today in New York City, we join leaders from Open Government Partnership (OGP) countries and civil society organizations at the United Nations — where OGP began in 2011 — to celebrate five years of this partnership.…

A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. Following last week’s G20 Summit in Hanghzou, China, corruption was the primary theme of this week’s news roundup with articles coming in from…

A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. With the fourth OGP Global Summit fast approaching, it is little wonder that the OpenGov spotlight was directed this week at Paris—the host…

Country: Brazil Commitment: Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples National Action Plan: 2013-2015 Brazil’s indigenous peoples have long fought with the government over use of their historical territory, for the protection of natural resources from extractive industries and the environmental impacts…