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A new era for OGP: Launching an independent entity

When the Open Government Partnership (OGP) was founded in 2011, the OGP Support Unit and Independent Reporting Mechanism had a skeleton staff and a huge mandate. This has now expanded beyond all expectations, with the team playing a vital role…

CrowdLaw as a tool for open governance

Originally posted on in GovLab Blog. On March 13-17, 2018 The GovLab brought together two dozen crowdlaw experts from around the world to collaborate on developing new ways to include more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the…

Open Government – A Citizen’s Perspective

A Government Open to the People, for the People, by the PeopleThis blog is adapted from remarks made by OGP CEO Sanjay Pradhan at the OpenON event in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 26th, 2018.Let me begin with a story…

Open Government Partnership at the Local Level in Estonia

Independent local governments were re-established in Estonia in the early 1990s, when most of the legislation on local government and its finances were written. The Constitution of the Republic of Estonia (1992) states in paragraph 154 the right of local…

OGP Criteria and Standards: What is ahead in 2018

OGP is all about action plans: governments identifying ambition for and making commitments to open government, ideally co-created by a range of stakeholders at home. But for the Partnership to be more than a set of disconnected action plans (including…

La transparencia en la lucha contra las noticias falsas

En los Países Bajos, las próximas elecciones municipales se llevarán a cabo el 21 de marzo del 2018. Ese mismo día, habrá un referéndum no obligatorio en el que los votantes opinarán sobre la Ley de Servicios de Inteligencia y…

Rostros del Gobierno Abierto – Catalina Urbe Burcher

Cuéntanos sobre IDEA. ¿En qué está trabajando la organización y cómo está impulsando cambios en la democracia en todo el mundo? International IDEA es la única organización intergubernamental cuyo único mandato es impulsar la democracia en todo el mundo. Así,…

Featured Commitment – Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka – AP1 2015-2017 (2016-2018) Theme: Women in Political Governance Commitment 15: Strengthening Women’s Participation in the political decision-making process at the local level Across the globe, women have seen slow-moving and limited progress on advancement of rights and…

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