Africa DRM Banner 2

Lessons from Reformers: South Africa Empowers Citizens with Budget Data

Read how a user-friendly open budget portal in South Africa empowers citizens to advance social change.

Open Response subpage 3

A Guide to Open Government and the Coronavirus: Fiscal Openness

The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened economies, increased public debt, and exacerbated existing inequalities. Governments across the world are in the process of enacting emergency responses, including reallocating budgets to the healthcare sector and sizable stimulus packages...

Transparent Public Procurement Rating – A CSO Initiative that Uses OGP to Strengthen Public Procurement Reforms

As the Open Government Partnership is gaining momentum around the globe, more and more areas of policy are being incorporated through action plan commitments. Public procurement is one such area. While there very few star commitments related to public procurement…

Breaking up Vested Interests: Three Steps to Turn Open Contracting Data into Political Change

Opening up public contracting can reshape the political landscape profoundly. It might sound boring and technocratic, but it’s actually about political change that delivers real impact. It’s about breaking up price-fixing schemes in delivering school meals to children and medicines…

Launching the Open Parliament e-Network

“Parliament can be empowered only if it is open, transparent, accountable and inclusive. Since the initiation of Open Government Partnership (OGP), many countries around the world have committed to opening up the legislative institutions in partnership with the civil society.…