OGP Local

Italy joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in September 2011. The third largest country in the European Union (EU) by population and economy, Italy had one of the highest rates of corruption perception in the EU, while its access to…

Here's our monthly roundup of updates from the OGP Local community for September 2022. ACTION PLAN Quito, Ecuador, presented its second open government action plan, which includes five commitments focused on citizenship training, local economic development and improvement of the municipality’s geoportal. Sekondi-Takoradi,…

Guanajuato is one of the 32 states in Mexico and its State Congress is made up of 36 local congresspeople who represent over 6 million citizens.

En esta serie de blogs sobre parlamentos abiertos, vamos a destacar las experiencias de algunos parlamentos abiertos en el mundo. Los parlamentos abiertos son instituciones que fomentan la transparencia, la participación y la rendición de cuentas a lo largo del…

Here's our monthly roundup of updates from the OGP Local community for August 2022. ACTION PLAN Yerevan Municipality (Armenia) opened a public call for proposals for commitments for their first action plan. The Municipality of Rosario (Argentina) made major progress on its…

In the past, the City of Buenos Aires had very few opportunities to work on public policies concerning the LGBTQIA+ community from an open government perspective. Through an OGP commitment, my team, the Undersecretariat for Open Government and Accountability, is…

Anteriormente, la Ciudad de Buenos Aires tenía pocas oportunidades de trabajar con la comunidad LGBTQIA+ desde la perspectiva de gobierno abierto. A través de un compromiso de OGP, mi equipo, la Subsecretaría de gobierno abierto y rendición de cuentas, está…

This toolkit is a collaboration between Accountability Lab and the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Young people aged 15-24 account for 16% of the global population. In some regions, Africa for instance, youth make up 60% of the continental population. As…

Here's our monthly roundup of updates from the OGP Local community for July 2022. ACTION PLAN Government points of contact and the monitoring bodies from Basque Country, Catalonia, Aragón, and Madrid met to share the experiences of their first inception reports. Mexico…

By the end of 2021, Ozurgeti and Khoni two municipalities in Georgia implemented their commitment and submitted all their evaluation and learning reports. What have they learnt?

In this interview, we talk with the government points of contacts for Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine; Ozurgeti, Georgia; and Vanadzor, Armenia to learn how their first OGP action plans are going.

Since 2020, OGP Local has welcomed eleven new local members from the Eastern Partnership region; in 2020, we welcomed Akhaltsikhe, Khoni, and Ozurgeti in Georgia; Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia and Ternopil in Ukraine and Vanadzor and Gyumri in Armenia, and in 2022 Kutaisi and Rustavi from Georgia and Armavir and Yerevan from Armenia joined the Partnership.