Asia and the Pacific

Meet Jen Bretaña, the OGP Government Point of Contact for South Cotabato, Philippines, and learn how the province is improving public procurement, increasing access to information, and bringing citizens closer to their government.

“When will it finally be our turn to use water? I’ve seen my neighbor water his crops ten times by now, but the water distribution hasn’t reached us even once this month! I cannot understand this water register at all,”…

It was 2018, and Bojonegoro (a regency in East Java, Indonesia) was facing a Regional General Election for a new Regent. Those who had been involved in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) locally knew that a transition in leadership would…

Despite being one of the key economic areas for Georgia, extractive industries generally lack sufficient levels of transparency and accountability. The recently published 2019 OGP Global Report demonstrates that improved transparency leads to better economic results, including increased foreign direct…

A pesar de ser un sector económico clave en Georgia, en general, las industrias extractivas no tienen suficiente transparencia y rendición de cuentas. El Informe Global de 2019 que OGP publicó recientemente demuestra que la transparencia genera resultados económicos, mayor…

Representing the Government of South Korea, the incoming OGP Steering Committee co-chair, Minister Chin discusses how open government can empower citizens to shape policies that respond to their needs.

The local government of South Cotabato, a province in the south of the Philippines, only completed 4.1 per cent of the development projects - most of them related to infrastructure - under the Local Development Fund in 2017. 

El gobierno local de Cotabato del Sur, provincia ubicada en el sur de Filipinas, logró terminar únicamente el 4.1 por ciento de sus proyectos de desarrollo - la mayoría de los cuales eran proyectos de infraestructura - que formaban parte del Fondo de Desarrollo Local en 2017.