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Civil Society Candidates for the Steering Committee 2021

Following an open nomination process and a public comment period, the OGP Support Unit announced the shortlist of Civil Society Candidates for the 2021 OGP Steering Committee on April 26, 2021.

We hosted a series of webinars the week of May 10, allowing the community and the candidates to get to know each other, share priorities and discuss initial ideas for the Steering Committee.

Shortlist

(published April 26, 2021)

Following an open nomination process and a public comment period, the OGP Steering Committee Selection Committee has developed a shortlist of Civil Society Candidates for the 2021 OGP Steering Committee. Each shortlisted candidate received full eligibility marks by the Selection Committee based on submitted paperwork, linked below.

First nameLast nameOrganizationBased InApplication DocumentsShortlisted? Score
AnabelCruzInstituto de Comunicacion y Desarrollo (ICD); Rendir CuentasUruguayNomination Form | SampleYes37
AntonellaValmorbidaEuropean Association for Local Democracy (ALDA)Belgium; FranceNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
DougRutzenInternational Center for Not-for-Profit LawUSANomination Form | SampleYes40
Geo-SungKimTransparency InternationalKoreaNomination Form | SampleYesCandidacy withdrawn
HildaAjeilatJordan Transparency CenterJordanNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
LubenPanovEuropean Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL)BulgariaNomination Form | SampleYes35
LucyMcTernanOpen Government Network Scotland; Open Government Network UKScotlandNomination Form | SampleYes35
NataliaCarfiOpen Data CharterArgentinaNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
OluseunOnigbindeBudgITNigeriaNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
PaulinaIbarraFundación Multitudes; Civil Society Pillar of the Community of DemocraciesChileNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
RobDavidsonInformation and Communications Technology CouncilCanadaNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
ShushanDoydoyanFreedom of Information Center of Armenia (FOICA)ArmeniaNomination Form | SampleYes30-35
TarikNesh-NashImpact For DevelopmentMoroccoNomination Form | SampleYes30-35

Longlist

(published April 12, 2021)

An open nomination process produced a longlist of candidates, published April 12, 2021.

A form for public comments was available until April 16, 2021. Only comments received through the form will be taken into account during the selection process. All non-attributed comments received can be found here.

For more information on the rotation process, please visit this page.

First nameLast nameOrganizationBased InApplication DocumentsShortlisted?
AnabelCruzInstituto de Comunicacion y Desarrollo (ICD); Rendir CuentasUruguayNomination Form | SampleYes
AniHarutyunyanArmavir Development CentreArmeniaNomination Form | SampleNo
AntonellaValmorbidaEuropean Association for Local Democracy (ALDA)Belgium; FranceNomination Form | SampleYes
Balqiaz khanMarwatRural Infrastructure and Human Resource Development Organization (RIHRDO)PakistanNomination FormNo
BasheerhamadShadrachVoice to the Voiceless TrustIndiaNomination Form | SampleNo
DougRutzenInternational Center for Not-for-Profit LawUSANomination Form | SampleYes
EbehKodjo FabriceAlliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l’environnement (ANCE-TOGO); National contact-Transparency InternationalTogoNomination Form | SampleNo
Geo-SungKimTransparency InternationalKoreaNomination Form | SampleYes (Candidacy was withdrawn)
HamzatLawalConnected Development (CODE); Follow The MoneyNigeriaNomination Form | SampleNo
HildaAjeilatJordan Transparency CenterJordanNomination Form | SampleYes
Juan PabloMarin DiazDatasketchColombiaNomination Form | SampleNo
Kabengele GuyDibweBrain Sluice Africa Child’sRepublic Democratic of the CongoNomination Form | SampleNo
KarinaCarvalhoTI PortugalPortugalNomination Form | SampleNo
KaterynaTsybenkoTransparency International UkraineLondon; UkraineNomination Form | SampleNo
LubenPanovEuropean Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL)BulgariaNomination Form | SampleYes
Lubna SayedQadriPVBLIC FoundationIndia
LucyMcTernanOpen Government Network Scotland; Open Government Network UKScotlandNomination Form | SampleYes
Maria OliviaLucasUnang Hakbang Foundation Inc.PhilippinesNomination Form | SampleNo
MathildeBouyéDémocratie OuverteFranceNomination Form | SampleNo
Md. MoniruzzamanAid OrganizationBangladeshNomination FormNo
MelroseLunnAklan Baghay, Inc.PhilippinesNomination FormNo
MichaelOkeMichael Adedotun Oke FoundationNigeriaNomination Form | SampleNo
Mohammad ZakirStanikzaiWar Child UKAfghanistanNomination FormNo
NasrullaNurullayevCare for the elderly intelectualsAzerbaijanNomination FormNo
NataliaCarfiOpen Data CharterArgentinaNomination Form | SampleYes
OluseunOnigbindeBudgITNigeriaNomination Form | SampleYes
PaulinaIbarraFundación Multitudes; Civil Society Pillar of the Community of DemocraciesChileNomination Form | SampleYes
RobDavidsonInformation and Communications Technology CouncilCanadaNomination Form | SampleYes
SadigHasanovTo Healthy LifeAzerbaijanNomination Form | SampleNo
ShahlaIsmayilWomen’s Association for Rational Development (WARD)AzerbaijanNomination Form | SampleNo
ShushanDoydoyanFreedom of Information Center of Armenia (FOICA)ArmeniaNomination Form | SampleYes
TarikNesh-NashImpact For DevelopmentMoroccoNomination Form | SampleYes

Learn more about the 2021 Civil Society Steering Committee Selection here.

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