Stories

    We often say that, “Less is more.” Yet there are times when we simply need more of a certain thing-when more is more. In the OGP, there are too few high-impact commitments. In the case of action plan…

The Philippines is one of the most mineralized countries in the world. In a 2013 and 2016 survey, the Philippines ranked in the top 10 in terms of mineral potential out of 112 countries (Taylor & Green, 2017). Mainstream paradigm…

Filipinas es uno de los países con más minerales del mundo. Según estudios realizados en el 2013 y 2016, entre 112 países, Filipinas es uno de los 10 países con mayor potencial minero (Taylor & Green, 2017). El paradigma dominante…

From the Austin City Government:    The City of Austin Equity Office was established through a City Council resolution in 2015, and officially opened with the hiring of the first Chief Equity Officer, Brion Oaks, in 2016. Unlike the many Equity…

Del gobierno de la ciudad de Austin:  La Oficina de Equidad de la ciudad de Austin se estableció a través de una resolución que se dio en el marco del concejo municipal en 2015. A diferencia de muchas otras oficinas…

  Femicide is recognized globally as one of the harshests manifestations of violence against women - and Brazil is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of that crime. According to ‘Mapa da Violência’, a study published by FLACSO…

  Cuando la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP) se fundó en 2011, la Unidad de Apoyo de OGP y el Mecanismo de Revisión Independiente contaban con un personal muy reducido y un mandato enorme. Hoy, el equipo se ha…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…