Over the course of 15 years, OGP has helped define how open governments can and should work. Since 2011, members have delivered meaningful policy and institutional change. In that time, OGP has evolved as a platform for generating reforms that drive tangible outcomes, like expanding civil society participation in policy-making and improving public services, government responsiveness, and resource allocation.
Today, open government principles and practices have extended beyond individual champions or executive-led initiatives. These principles and practices are increasingly embedded across branches and levels of government, enabling governments to seize moments of opportunity and to sustain progress over time. But the context has changed, and the stakes are higher than ever.
This publication celebrates the hard work of political champions, public servants, civil society reformers, and partners. It also reflects the Partnership’s resilience in advancing open government reforms in the past 15 years. This milestone is both a recognition of what has been built and a call to go further by scaling ambitious reforms.
Foreword
Across countries and communities, openness has strengthened institutions, improved public services, fought corruption, and delivered reforms that endure. In this section, hear from Aidan Eyakuze, CEO of OGP, on the progress of the Partnership over the past 15 years.
The work is far from complete, but the evidence is compelling: open government delivers better government.
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Key Findings
Reformers have used the OGP platform to drive results. Collaboration between actors inside and outside of government is in the DNA of the OGP model, and has proven that it produces stronger, more durable reforms. Repeated cycles of action planning have cultivated trust and relationships between reformers over time. Coalitions between like-minded countries were built to connect global policy debates with in-country reforms. OGP’s global visibility and cross-country learning opportunities sharpened political incentives and provided practical tools to turn ideas into action.
Explore key findings from the past 15 years of OGP.
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From Idea to Global Movement
Policy Impact
Open government reforms have led to tangible results: new or improved legislation mandating openness, greater proactive disclosure of data, and enhanced civil society participation in policy design.
This publication profiles five policy areas where these results have been the strongest across the Partnership. These are beneficial ownership transparency, open contracting, fiscal openness, public participation, and the right to information.
Each chapter outlines how OGP has supported the processes through which reforms were made and acted upon, and highlights specific, impactful initiatives from OGP members.
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Impact at the National and Local Levels
National and Local Impact
OGP has worked to engage political leaders, line ministries, and public servants from different branches and levels of government to mainstream open government in the culture and practices of governments.
Reformers have used OGP’s action framework to ground reforms in structural change, leading to policy, practice, and resources dedicated to making government more open and collaborative. Beyond these tangible mechanisms, OGP also influences the relational conditions for reform: its global visibility, cross-country coalitions, and learning sharpen political incentives and legitimacy for reformers to take action.
Explore how OGP has helped mainstream open government across four dimensions: institutionalizing collaboration, meaningful dialogue, open state reforms, and local open government.
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Investing in the Future of Openness
OGP's Strategic Policy Priorities
Fifteen years ago, OGP was created on a bet: that governments and civil society could build institutions worthy of public trust and capable of meeting people’s needs. The domestic and international ecosystem created by OGP has produced remarkable results.
Today, the question is no longer whether open government works, but whether the world will move fast enough to adopt it at the scale the moment demands. Our ambition is for OGP members to lead that race: to be the countries and cities that others look to when they ask how to govern AI democratically, how to protect civic space online, how to make climate action accountable, and how to ensure that the benefits of growth are shared rather than captured.
This section describes where we will focus and what success looks like for three clusters of work: inclusive and resilient institutions and societies, democratic digital governance, and prosperity and competitiveness.
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Annex
About the Data Analysis
Explore the full methodology of the data analysis behind this report.