Elizabeth Moses

Elizabeth is an Environmental Democracy Specialist with WRI’s The Access Initiative, where she leads research on a variety of international and country-specific policy issues related to access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Elizabeth currently manages the Strengthening the Right to Information for People and the Environment (STRIPE) project, which focuses on research and advocacy to empower communities to use their rights to information and participation as an avenue for improving their environment and health while advancing the goals of clean air and clean water. She also created and leads The Access Initiative’s Gender Working Group, a global coalition seeking to understand how access rights can support the empowerment of women in natural resource decision‐making. Prior to WRI, she worked as an advocacy campaigner and policy analyst in the Pacific Northwest around industrial pollution and toxic chemical public health issues.

Authored Content

Troubled Water: How Countries Can Achieve their Water Commitments

Those of us who work at the intersection of water and open government know that the Open Government Partnership (OGP) provides an exciting opportunity to leverage transparency, participation, and accountability strategies to address Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) public service…

21st September 2018

Las condiciones adecuadas para la implementación efectiva de los compromisos de OGP acerca de recursos naturales

Todos sabemos que la implementación de los compromisos es el elemento central de la misión de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP por sus siglas en inglés) de generar reformas transformadoras. Sin embargo, más de un tercio de los…

13th November 2017

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Winning Conditions for Effective Implementation of OGP Natural Resource Commitments

Everyone knows that implementation of commitments is at the core of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)’s mission for transformational reforms. However, more than a third of commitments reviewed to date by the Independent Reporting Mechanism have not been implemented. For…