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The promotion of inclusive, transparent and accountable justice systems is a key area of focus in the open government community. With this in mind, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) created the OGP Coalition on Justice, a group of OGP members, civil society organizations, private sector actors, and other national and international partners advancing a people-centered approach to justice through their OGP Action Plans and the Open Gov Challenge.
All OGP members currently implementing justice commitments and the Open Gov Challenge on justice will be invited to join Coalition meetings.
As of April 2025, 25 OGP national members who are currently implementing justice commitments include: Albania, Cabo Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
As of April 2025, seven member countries and one local member are taking more ambitious steps through the Open Gov Challenge: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Honduras, Republic of Korea and Sierra Leone. To see more information about these submissions and/or an updated list of participants in the Challenge, see the Challenge Tracker.
OGP members or other organizations that do not meet the criteria above can join meetings of the Coalition as observers. To indicate interest in joining a Coalition meeting as an observer, please complete the information in this form.
The Coalition’s members work together on a number of strategies to accelerate ambitious reforms on inclusive justice systems, particularly through the Open Gov Challenge initiative. Some of this strategies are:
- Promoting peer learning and exchange on ambitious and long-lasting reforms that:
- strengthen the independence, transparency, and public responsiveness of justice systems
- institutionalize mechanisms for inclusive and participatory approaches to justice policy and service design, to ensure access to justice services for all
- ensure accountability for policymaking through appropriate and effective redress mechanisms for the public
- Ensuring that justice-related commitments in OGP Action Plans build on previous commitments (pledged through OGP and elsewhere), respond to inputs and feedback from civil society and independent evaluations, and are rooted in core open government principles of transparency, accountability and participation.
- Scaling ambitious justice-related commitments at the national, local, and sublocal levels within their jurisdictions, and promoting the value of open-government led approaches to justice policy in relevant international fora.
- Leveraging the Joint Declaration on Open Government for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and OGP’s peer-to-peer network of governments and civil society organizations to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 16 and, in particular, the promise of justice for all by 2030.
- Promoting OGP resources such as the Justice Policy Series and sections of the Open Gov Guide, as well as contributing to the development of new resources where appropriate.
- Participating at the OGP Summits or on the margins of other global events being organized around justice.
- Co-developing a workplan and deliverables to guide and structure its activities.
If you would like to request support from the OGP Support Unit and the OGP Coalition on Justice for justice-related activities in your OGP Action Plan, please provide more information about the nature of your request here.