From engagement to co-creation
Towards the end of 2013, the Christmas spirit was in the air, and we at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) of the Republic of Georgia were preparing to put our work on hold until after the New Year. The plan…
Asia and the Pacific
CheckMySchool (CMS) Initiative: Open Governance through Stories of Change
This blog is part of a series on how open government can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The series came out of a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub and the Open Government…
Remarks by H.E. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, on the OGP Fifth Anniversary Event, Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, Sri Lanka is one of the newest members of the Open Government Partnership and South Asia’s first, and I am happy to join you today to mark the Fifth Anniversary of this Partnership. I thank…
Statement by H.E. Mr. Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia on the High-Level Event: “Open Government Partnership 5 Year Celebration”
20 September, 2016, New York Honorable Co-chairs; Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen, We express our gratitude to the Government of South Africa for its efforts towards advancing the important agenda of Open Government Partnership in the past year and wish…
Doing Accountability Differently: How the Vertical Integration of Civil Society Can Drive Impact
Civil society advocates have long argued that greater transparency leads to greater accountability. Put more information in the public domain and it will be used to hold governments to account. Yet the causal chain between transparency and accountability may be…
From Waste Disposal to Water Delivery: Citizen Empowerment through the Check My Service Initiative
This blog is part of a series on how open government can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The series came out of a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub and the Open Government…
Featured Commitment – The Philippines
Country: The PhilippinesCommitment: Citizen Participatory AuditsNational Action Plan: 2013-2015 Following public outcry over the misuse of priority development assistance funds, and faced with the daunting task of monitoring the transactions of over 161,000 government units with fewer than 7,000 state…