Local Roundup | June 2026

Here’s our monthly roundup of updates from the OGP Local community for June 2026. Check out previous Roundups here!

Hear from Local Leaders

María Chivite, President of Navarra, Spain
“At a time when democracy faces significant challenges, strengthening trust in public institutions is a shared responsibility. And being part of this international network means standing up for open government as one of the strongest expressions of democracy.”

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NEW ACTION PLANS, NEW AMBITIONS

South Cotabato’s (Philippines) 2026–2028 action plan seeks to expand access to public information, strengthen transparency and civil society oversight of infrastructure projects, engage communities in biodiversity conservation through participatory mapping and open data, and increase public participation in lawmaking through livestreamed committee hearings and citizen-led legislation. More here.

Catalonia’s (Spain) 2026–2028 action plan seeks to make citizen participation more strategic and better linked to public policy priorities, improve access to government information through an upgraded Transparency Portal, promote open data reuse, and strengthen the network of ethics committees across public administrations. More here.

CHANGE IN MOTION

Chihuahua (Mexico) launched a WhatsApp chatbot that enables residents to quickly and securely report corruption, abuse by public officials, and police misconduct resulting in the expansion of accessible citizen oversight and accountability tools. More here.

Kaduna State (Nigeria) is supporting all 23 local governments in co-creating open government action plans to improve primary healthcare through greater citizen participation, transparency, and accountability. More here.

Buenos Aires (Argentina) strengthened its Active Transparency Policy with new guidelines and implementation procedures to improve the quality and accessibility of proactively published public information, and complemented it with a new mandatory plain-language style guide for government communications. More here, here, and here.

Bogotá and Cali (Colombia) are advancing infrastructure transparency through CoST, improving access to project information, strengthening public oversight, and increasing citizen participation in decision-making. More here.

Dakar (Senegal) has launched the co-creation process for its first Local OGP action plan by establishing a multi-stakeholder technical committee that brings together government and civil society. More here.

Mendoza (Argentina) delivered the most-voted project from its 2024 Participatory Budget, a rapid-response vehicle for the city's volunteer firefighters. The project demonstrates how citizen input is being translated into concrete public investments through participatory budgeting. More here and here.

Yogyakarta (Indonesia) brought together government, civil society, journalists, academics, and residents to gather community feedback on the region's social assistance data portal, strengthening citizen participation and collaborative oversight to improve the accuracy and transparency of social protection programs. More here.

Local Lessons

EXCHANGING IDEAS

🌐 Representatives from Aragon and Navarra (Spain), Peñalolén (Chile), and Athens (Greece) shared experiences on cognitive accessibility, easy-read communication, and co-creating public policies with people with disabilities during a new session of the OGP Local Inclusion Circle. More here.

TAKEAWAYS

📘 Discover how Hamburg (Germany) advanced open data governance by combining a participatory mobility information tool with community "Data Dialogues," shifting the administration's internal culture toward greater data literacy and transparency. More here.

📘 Learn from Prishtina’s (Kosovo) experience on how designing realistic, achievable commitments under a tight pre-election timeline helped the municipality digitalize key services, introduce participatory budgeting, and even pivot creatively when funding fell through, laying the groundwork for more ambitious reforms. More here.

RESOURCES

📘 Access CoST’s new guidance on publishing and using infrastructure data to help governments, civil society, journalists, and oversight bodies strengthen how infrastructure information is published, interpreted, and applied in decision-making. More here.

Get Involved

EVENTS

🌐 From June 22–25, OGP Local leaders from the Basque Country (Spain), Bogotá (Colombia), Kaduna State (Nigeria), Yoff (Senegal), and several regions across Morocco shared how they are embedding open government into budgeting, policymaking, and service delivery at the UCLG World Congress. More here and here.

OPPORTUNITIES

🌐 Share your visual story through the Democracy Stories Lab for a chance to win up to $1,000 and have your work featured through the People Powered and Democracy Narratives Alliance networks. Applications open July 14. More here.

🌐 Apply to the HUDERIA Local Academy to assess and strengthen your local or regional government's use of AI through the Council of Europe's human rights–based methodology. Selected authorities will receive expert support, peer learning opportunities, and help shape a European benchmark for trustworthy public sector AI. More here.

🌐 Apply to the UN DPI Safeguards Accelerator to receive expert support, peer learning, and up to USD 70,000 to strengthen safeguards for inclusive and trustworthy digital systems. Apply by July 30. More here.

Open Gov Challenge

As African Anti-Corruption Day approaches, Nandi County (Kenya) shows how access to information can be a powerful accountability tool. Through its Open Gov Challenge commitment to enhance access to information and inclusivity, the county is expanding open data, ward-level information hubs, and radio outreach to ensure women, youth, and people with disabilities can monitor government decisions and hold leaders accountable.