Red tape in Romania is a huge headache that costs everyone time and money. New parents need to submit multiple versions of a package of physical documents to different government offices in order to register for their welfare allowances. Businesses…
The OGP Steering Committee will be meeting in Cape Town on 3-4 May. The agenda and papers for that meeting have been published here. Among other discussions there are a couple of decisions that need to be made on who the new co-chairs…
Late December OGP started the search for six new civil society steering committee members - a unique opportunity for talented and committed civil society leaders to further shape OGP, represent the interests of the civil society community and assure that…
A new weekly series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. This week press related to OGP was most intensive in Mexico, where the process of drafting the country’s 2016-2018 National Action…
This post is part of a blog series we are running over the next few weeks to highlight core open government issues and give you ideas to consider as you develop your new National Action Plan. In our previous post, we…
Want to read this blog in English? El cierre del espacio cívico es una tendencia preocupante que está ocurriendo en diversas regiones del mundo. En este momento activistas de Azerbaiyán a Turquía y de Hungría a Honduras están enfrentando situaciones…
¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Closing civic space is a worrisome trend surfacing across regions. As we sit reading this, civil society activists from Azerbaijan to Turkey, Hungary to Honduras, are facing situations where their freedoms to operate and…
TOWARD A TRANSPARENT AND COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP I am pleased to launch this year’s Open Government Partnership World Summit, and thereby to promote, via means and actions, a more transparent and collaborative public action. An open government is one in…
This piece originally appeared in TheCityFix. Cities are where real progress is made for sustainable development. They’re where governments are closest to their citizens and where essential public services like education, health and transport are delivered to people. However, with…
This piece originally appeared on the OpeningParliament.org blog. ¿Quieres leer este blog en español? The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has always been positioned primarily as a platform. There are few detailed prescriptions of what member countries must do aside from…
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