Webinar to introduce the OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group
The Open Government PartnershipThe Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on improving government transparency, ensuring opportunities for citizen participation in public matters, and strengthen... More and the Global Initiative for Fiscal TransparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More is pleased to announce a webinar to introduce the OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 8:00 am EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below.
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Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM EST
This webinar aims to further the understanding of fiscal transparency issues and activities in the context of the Open Government Partnership. The session will introduce the work of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the concept of OGP Working Groups, and the framework for the OGP-GIFT Fiscal Openness Working Group (FOWG). Following this, there will be a presentation of Brazil’s action planAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen... commitments on fiscal transparency.
Since a significant feature of the OGP Working Groups is peer learning and exchanges, during the course of the webinar, participants will have opportunity to ask questions about putting fiscal openness into practice and the availability of resources to support these commitments.
The FOWG will:
- Provide a platform for peer-to-peer sharing and learning among OGP members on Fiscal Openness
- Offer OGP members efficient and coordinated access to good practices, tools, assessments, and technological expertise on Fiscal Openness
- Support OGP governments/members to develop and implement more ambitious Fiscal Openness goals and good practices
- Motivate additional governments to become champions and models of Fiscal Openness.
Presented by:
Otávio Castro Neves, Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil
Sanjeev Khagram, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency
Warren Krafchik, Open Budget Partnership
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The Open Government Partnership Working Groups and Webinars are initiatives to encourage peer learning and knowledge sharing on critical open government issues among civil society, government, and private sectorGovernments are working to open private sector practices as well — including through beneficial ownership transparency, open contracting, and regulating environmental standards. Technical specificat... More participants.