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It is less than a week now from the convening of Western Balkan OGP Dialogue, a conference that will bring together central and local governments as well as civil society organizations from a region much wider than the Western Balkans.…

Haidy Ear-Dupuy is a Social Development Specialist in the NGO and Civil Society Center, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department of Asian Development Bank. She supports the facilitation of civil society participation and engagement in ADB’s operations. She is an active member…

Summary NZ’s Action Plan is amongst the least ambitious of all 65 member countries in the OGP, and the process by which it was developed and is being implemented is a long way from the ‘co-creation’ between government and civil…

Dear friends and colleagues: In just a few days I will be stepping down from my role as the Executive Director of the OGP Support Unit.  I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and…

We pledge to be more transparent at every level -- because more information on government activity should be open, timely, and freely available to the people. We pledge to engage more of our citizens in decision-making -- because it makes…

Country: Costa Rica Commitment: Public Institution Transparency Index National Action Plan: 2013-14 In Costa Rica there is no transparency index that measures all State institutions according to the same standards, nor a local body that systematically publishes reports on the…

Listen to award-winning journalist and head of the IRM South Korea research team, Geoffrey Cain, talk about the country's state of democracy and commitments he feels the South Korean government should make within the framework of OGP in order to…

In this section of the OGP newsletter, we feature open government champions both from government and civil society, and ask them about their OGP experiences. Here is what they have to say:  How does open government make a difference in…

Civic engagement is at the heart of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In signing the Open Government Declaration, OGP members commit to engaging citizens in the development, implementation, and monitoring of their National Action Plans. As OGP is nascent, we…

The past couple of weeks I have been reading many of the 300+ submitted proposals for this year’s OGP Global Summit. At times it has felt a bit like being at the Saturday morning market full of all kinds of…