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Featured Commitment – Madrid

Subnational Pilot: Madrid, Spain Action Plan: 2017 Commitment: Development of participatory budgeting In April, the Financial Times reported that Spain’s ongoing ruling-party corruption scandal had “claimed a new political scalp,” with a Popular Party veteran resigning in the wake of…

OGP as a Framework for Change: The Experience of Buenos Aires

The launching of the Subnational Pioneer Pilot Program within OGP in early 2016 was a significant step forward in the global open government agenda. While born within countries, cities and local governments are especially well positioned to make open government…

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Open Government in the Rural Areas of Azerbaijan

  We are happy to announce that nongovernmental organization “Umid” Support to Social Development Public Union (UMID)’s “Initiative for the ‘Promotion of Open Government’ at Local Level”, was approved by the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) and will be implemented within…

Is Open Government a solution to ending poverty in Africa?

    As an African who lives on the continent and works in the development sector, I am troubled by the persistent poverty many live in. The continent boasts of abundant natural resources and a vibrant and talented young population,…

Open government inevitable in all countries: Heller

This post originally appeared on myrepublica.com. Nathaniel Heller is the executive vice president of integrated strategies at Results for Development (R4D), which works with change agents such as government officials, sometime social entrepreneurs and civil society activists to design and execute strategies…

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