Allison Merchant was the Senior Gender Advisor for the Open Government Partnership where she led the gender and inclusion portfolio across OGP’s thematic team. She joined OGP in 2018 to launch the Feminist Open Government Initiative, which aims to advance gender equality and better governance through increased transparency, participation, accountability, and government responsiveness. Allison has more than 14 years of experience designing and implementing wide-ranging programs to promote women’s participation in legislatures, political parties, peace and reconciliation processes, and civil society advocacy.
Previously, Allison worked for Politico, the Institute for Inclusive Security, the National Democratic Institute, and EMILY’s List.
She earned her Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Bachelor’s degrees in Women’s Studies and Communication from Denison University.
On this International Women’s Day, we’re reflecting on what OGP has learned over the past year and where we hope to take inclusive open government in 2020.
En el marco del Día Internacional de la Mujer, reflexionamos sobre lo que OGP ha aprendido en el último año y hacia dónde queremos dirigir el movimiento del gobierno abierto en el 2020.
A small but growing number of countries have committed to championing feminist approaches to foreign policy. Sweden, France and Canada, to different degrees, have all pledged in recent years to make gender equality a goal of their international assistance and diplomatic…
There are women who were the first….. Women who demanded justice… Women who defied silence…. And upended expectations... But this isn’t a story about some of us. This is a story about how we all move past the stereotypes that…
Hay mujeres que fueron las primeras… Mujeres que exigieron justicia… Mujeres que desafiaron el silencio… Y acabaron con las expectativas… Pero ésta no es una historia de algunas de nosotras. Es una historia sobre cómo superamos los estereotipos que nos…
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