Remarks at the GIFT Workshop, June 20, 2016 Fiscal transparency resides at the very core of open government.  Forging a stronger collaboration between the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), which leads the OGP…

Lo siguiente fue escrito por Natalia Albañil, Coordinadora del Programa de Transparencia Legislativa Regional, NDI Colombia. Fue publicado originalmente en openingparliament.org. En las últimas semanas se llevaron a cabo dos importantes eventos regionales en materia de Parlamento Abierto. El 25…

La Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP, por sus siglas en inglés) ha fortalecido el diálogo y el trabajo conjunto entre los Estados y los actores no estatales- particularmente las organizaciones de la sociedad civil- para fortalecer el acceso a…

We all need better value infrastructure. From the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to the World Bank Group, it is generally estimated that USD$3.7 trillion global infrastructure investment is needed annually yet only around US$2.7 trillion is currently…

How the Open Government Partnership is boosting COP effectiveness Collective Action: A love-hate relationship Collective action presents challenges that are widely recognized, yet people continually prefer to work together. Governance practitioners recognize that the issues we work to address are…

By the time you read this, hundreds of people from all over the continent will have arrived in Montevideo to take part in the OGP Americas Regional Meeting. It is an honor and pleasure for Uruguay to welcome the people…

This blog originally appeared on the Financial Transparency Coalition website.  2016 is a big year for the open government movement, and recent revelations from the leaked Panama Papers will only serve to forward the transparency discussion further. As we’ve seen…

This blog originally appeared on the World Bank Governance for Development blog.  On April 22 and April 29, 2016 representatives from Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Sierre Leone, South Africa, and Tanzania came together in a virtual South-South Knowledge exchange…

Originally posted on Nigeria News Read full speech of President Buhari's speech at the ongoing Anti-Corruption Summit In London: Fellow Heads of State & Government, Ø The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, the Rt. Honourable Patricia Scotland, QC, Ø Business Leaders,…

The Tackling Corruption Together conference is hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in partnership with Transparency International, Thomson Reuters, Omidyar Network, the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, the B Team, and ONE.  It will be broadcast from 8:30am BST on Wednesday…

Across the world leaders are locked in policy discussions on how to tackle corruption, most notably at this week’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London. To achieve truly ambitious reform, that meets citizens’ needs and expectations, the Open Government Partnership should play…

This post is part of a blog series we are running over the next few weeks to highlight core open government issues and give you ideas to consider as you develop your new National Action Plan. In our previous post, we…