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From Greece’s fourth action plan, one ambitious commitment on whistleblowing in sports saw major early results. Other commitments, which were largely about opening datasets in different ministries, saw few early results. Civil society was not meaningfully involved in the co-creation…

Under the second Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan, Nigeria advanced anti-corruption efforts through greater transparency of corporate beneficial ownership, openness of national and state budgets, and improved management of recovered assets. However, a lack of ownership among implementing agencies…

In 2023, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Action Plan Review for Bulgaria's fourth action plan. The report provides a technical review of the action plan’s characteristics and the strengths and challenges the IRM identifies to inform a stronger…

This product consists of an IRM review of Armenia’s 2022-2024 action plan. The action plan comprises 10 commitments. This review emphasizes its analysis on the strength of the action plan to contribute to implementation and results. For the commitment-by-commitment data,…

Serbia’s fourth Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan focused on digitalization and public participation in decision-making. Half of the commitments were either fully or substantially completed, but only one (simplifying administrative procedures) saw major results in opening government. To improve…

The Netherlands’ fourth Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan saw advancements in transparency of political parties' financing. Preliminary work was also carried out in open contracting and in finding the right balance between government transparency and confidentiality. Going forward, it…

  In December 2021, the United States government convened the first Summit for Democracy (S4D), where more than 50 governments – including 43 member countries of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) – made more than 800 commitments to strengthen democracy,…