About the Report
Authors
Alessandro Bellantoni and Munyema Hasan
Staff Reviewers
Ericka Blas, Rudi Borrmann, Paul Braithwaite, Mathilde Bouyé, Carolina Cornejo, Aidan Eyakuze, Joseph Foti, Pepe García, Tim Hughes, Adna Kamaheric-Oats, Maureen Kariuki, Mia Katan, Sarah Kennedy, Anastasiya Kozlovtseva, José María Marín, Paul Maassen, Swati Mehta, Mercedes Nassif, Tarik Nesh-Nash, Tinatin Ninua, Ling Panyasevanamit, Carina Paju, Rosario Pavese, Paula Pérez, José Pérez, Sandra Pernar, Clorinda Romo, Kgothatso Semela, Matthew Tramonti, and Peter Varga
Data Analysis
Riana Bucceri and Renzo Falla Lopez
Report Design
Nicol Regan
Copy Editing and Web Design
Christina Socci
License
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. For a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.
Published September 2026.
Contact
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Photo Credits
Foreword
An aerial view of participants at the 2023 OGP Global Summit in Tallinn, hosted by the government of Estonia (Credit: OGP)
Key Findings
Facilitators leading consultations for the Neighborhood Infrastructure Fund in Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom) (Credit: Government of Glasgow)
From Idea to Global Movement
Attendees at the 2025 OGP Global Summit engaging in a brainstorming exercise (Credit: OGP)
Policy Impact
The first biogas installation in Seini, Romania (Credit: Victor Neagu/World Bank via Flickr)
Ending Anonymous Ownership
Journalists at a field trip about mangrove conservation in Indonesia, hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (Credit: CIFOR-ICRAF)
Uncovering Spending in Public Contracts
Open contracting can lower competition and make it easier for underrepresented groups to win bids and participate in infrastructure projects, like the Cuadrilla Rosa initiative in Santiago de Cali, Colombia (Credit: Infrastructure Secretariat)
Opening Public Budgets
Children learning road safety rules in Abovyan (Armenia), one of the selected proposals under the participatory budgeting process in the country (Credit: Government of Armenia)
Mainstreaming Public Participation
Members of the public visiting the Cour des Comptes in France, as part of an outreach campaign for its public participation platform (Credit: Cour des Comptes)
Protecting the Right to Information
The National Assembly in Senegal passing the Access to Information Law in 2025 (Credit: African Parliamentary Press Network)
Impact at the National and Local Levels
Attendees at the 2025 OGP Regional Meeting in Nairobi, hosted by the government of Kenya (Credit: OGP)
National and Local Impact
The welcome dinner at the 2025 OGP Regional Meeting in Nairobi, hosted by the government of Kenya (Credit: OGP)
Institutionalizing Collaboration
Representatives from Brazil at the 2024 América Abierta conference (Credit: OGP)
Meaningful Dialogue
Attendees at the 2016 OGP Global Summit in Paris, hosted by the government of France (Credit: OGP)
Open State
Statue of Minerva in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico (Credit: Arturo Esparza via Unsplash)
Local Open Government
A mother and child in Nigeria (Credit: World Bank)
Investing in the Future of Openness
Attendees at the 2024 América Abierta conference participate in OGP Camp (Credit: OGP)
Attendees at the 2023 OGP Global Summit in Estonia (Credit: OGP)
Ukraine’s Diia app, an open-source platform for public services (Credit: Diia)
Wind turbines operated by Acciona Energía on the harbour wall at the Port of Bilbao, Spain (John Cameron via Unsplash)
Annex
Participants at the 2023 OGP Global Summit in Estonia (Credit: OGP)
About the Data Analysis
Attendees at a Decide Madrid event (Credit: City of Madrid)