Africa and the Middle East

      Thousands are gathered in Paris this week for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit. The meeting takes place as alarming trends impact the transparency movement, threatening progress and underscoring the need for action.   We are…

1. Information IntegrityAhead of Nigeria’s 2011 election, the West African Non-Government Organisation Network reported troubling inaccuracies in the list of the nation’s polling stations. While preparing a digital map of voting locations, it discovered that as many as 28,000 polling…

This post originally appeared on the Natural Resource Governance Institute blog. For years, Tunisia’s extractives sector was viewed with skepticism. Information on reserves, the rights allocation, resource revenues and their management was particularly scarce. But during the last two years,…

English Version » Cuando me enteré que un equipo de OGP planeaba hacer una visita a Nigeria, el 70º país en incorporarse a la Alianza, me ofrecí a participar. En 2006 participé en un ejercicio de planeación de escenarios con…

English Version » El hecho que Nigeria está enfrentando retos económicos muy serios no es noticia. Lo que muchas personas no saben es que la actual recesión representa una oportunidad importante para que el país inicie su proceso de gobernanza…

Version en español » That Nigeria is going through serious economic challenges right now is not news. What many may not realize is that the current recession represents an important opportunity for the country to do a hard reset on…