early childhood development in santo domingo

Learning Outcome Transparency is the Beginning of Improvement

Lessons from Reformers: The Dominican Republic’s 2016 action plan focused its education efforts on developing a digital tool, the “Educational Center Management System (SIGERD)...

16 Days Throwback

Advocacy to Action: OGP Supports “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”

On November 25, 1960, the bodies of three sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal Reyes were found at the bottom of a cliff in the Dominican Republic. Murdered for their outspoken advocacy, the sisters and their driver had been…

OGP in the News – Week of November 7, 2016

A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. It’s been a tumultuous week in international politics, yet the nature of OGP coverage remained relatively unchanged. The English-language online computer magazine PCWorld,…

Tough challenges and big opportunities: commitments to watch in the Americas.

To date, the Americas region faces a number of challenges in advancing  open government reforms. For many countries, insecurity, corruption and human rights violations are just some of the critical issues that governments need to tackle. Access to information and…

Why Open Government Can – and Must – Help Build Safer Communities

I recently attended an energizing meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in the Americas, hosted by Costa Rica.  The event attracted the participation of more than 300 government and civil society participants from 17 OGP countries across the region. …