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We are excited to announce the new OGP ‘Participation and Co-creation Standards and Guidelines,’ that will be used from now on by all OGP participating countries to guide the development, implementation and (self-)assessment of National Action Plans. In a September…

2016 was an extraordinarily rich year for OGP.  We celebrated 41 new national OGP action plans, expanded to our first group of subnational participants, had rich regional meetings in Cape Town, Montevideo and Manila, celebrated our 5th anniversary at UNGA,…

The Open Government Partnership is a little over five years old. It has expanded rapidly from 8 founding governments to 75 today, and 15 subnational governments. Thousands of civil society organizations are now using OGP to co-create reform commitments with…

The content of this month’s OGP news coverage spanned a vast array of topics from shifting political orders, to open source debates in Taiwan and France, and renewed support for open government policies in Latin America. January saw the swearing…

El contenido de OGP en las noticias de este mes abarcó una gran variedad de temas, desde los cambios en los ambientes políticos hasta debates abiertos en Taiwán y Francia. Además, el apoyo a las políticas de gobierno abierto en…

Country: Latvia Action Plan: 2015-17 Commitment 6: Establish a sustainable model of funding non-governmental organizations (NGOs) In the recent OGP Summit in Paris, “civic space” was one of the hot buzzwords. Yet, when we look at OGP action plans, we…

How did you get involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? If I were to provide a short answer regarding my involvement in the open government concept, then it would be “simple…

The mobile phone footage may be shaky, but there is no doubt about what is happening – and it’s a disturbingly familiar scene.  A black protester struggles against half a dozen policemen, who are attempting to restrain him amidst the…

There are few that would disagree that a world free from poverty and injustice would require transformational change. We see leaders, government and non-government organisations, multi-lateral institutions make recurrent commitments towards such an end. While the idea of ending poverty…

The Global Summit in Paris mobilized civil society and governments around concrete deliverables The fourth Open Government Partnership Global Summit took place in Paris in December 2016. This unique multilateral event brought together a dozen Heads of State, hundreds of…

Are you a civil society leader committed to strengthening how governments work for their citizens? Join the OGP Steering Committee! 2016 was a big year for OGP. The Partnership completed five years, grew to over 70 countries, and brought its…