I often wondered what impact doing my job from a developing country instead of a developed one would have on my thinking about inequality. One area where I can see a big shift is my feelings about corruption and its…

Open government can - and should - more effectively harness the power and insights of girls.

By Lena Ingelstam and Ulrika Cilliers, Save the Children, Tor Hodenfield, CIVICUS, and Beatrice Schulter, Child Rights Connect Many children want to defend their rights and the rights of others and when children speak out things change. Every day, millions…

Los principios de transparencia, participación pública y rendición de cuentas han sido reconocidos en políticas sectoriales sobre agua y sanitación como lo ilustran los Principios de Gobernanza del Agua de la OCDE. Un número de instituciones financieras internacionales han apoyado…

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…

The principles of transparency, public participation and accountability are recognized as key to water and sanitation policies, as OECD’s Principles on Water Governance demonstrate. A number of international financial institutions have supported this work, including the Inter-American Development Bank (IABD)…

When OGP was founded back in 2011, Indonesia understood that by adopting open government initiatives that encourage governments to be more open and accountable, citizens would renew their trust in government institutions, making it more inclusive and responsive to its people.

As the Open Government Partnership is gaining momentum around the globe, more and more areas of policy are being incorporated through action plan commitments. Public procurement is one such area. While there very few star commitments related to public procurement…

This blog was written by Emily Fung and Allison Merchant of Open Heroines and originally posted on Medium. “The Future is Open” is this year’s IODC theme, with the conference focusing on innovative solutions and opportunities for collaboration to inspire real progress…

At the core of the relationship between citizens and the state are decisions about how public resources are raised and spent. Budgets are the most important economic policy tool available to governments to promote inclusion and redress inequality. The availability…

English version. La reciente ola global de transiciones políticas ha debilitado los avances hacia la apertura en los países miembros de OGP. Siete años después de su creación, muchos activistas de la sociedad civil y reformadores de gobiernos están encontrando…

English version. El Fideicomiso de OGP ha estado muy activo en 2018. Desarrollado por la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP por sus siglas en inglés) y el Banco Mundial y con el generoso apoyo de Department for International Development,…