¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Big things are happening in African OGP countries. Yet, a recent report on OGP’s “starred commitments”--the most ambitious reforms in OGP-- did not feature any African commitments, showing the difficulty of implementation across the continent.…

Government reformers and development practitioners in the open government space are experiencing the heady times associated with a newly-defined agenda. The opportunity for innovation and positive change can at times feel boundless. Yet, working in a nascent field also means…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Close to a thousand delegates from the African continent and beyond are descending on Cape Town for the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) Africa Regional Summit from 4 - 6 May 2016. At this grand…

  Voulez-vous lire ce blog en français? ¿Quieres leer este blog en español? In October 2015, during the Global Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Mexico, Côte d’Ivoire officially became the international initiative’s first sub-Saharan Francophone member. This is…

Want to read this blog in English? Casi mil delegados del continente africano y de otras regiones se reunirán en Ciudad del Cabo para la Reunión Regional de África del 4 al 6 de mayo de 2016. Además de intercambiar…

Want to read this blog in English? Open Government Partnership (OGP) está posicionada principalmente como una plataforma. Existen pocos lineamientos acerca de lo que los países miembros deben hacer, además de cumplir con los requisitos iniciales y de crear un…

Electoral boundaries in Kenya. Unifying all national bank accounts in Sierra Leone. Mapping conservation areas in South Africa. Land ownership data in Liberia. For those who follow events in each of these countries, these are all big ideas with potentially…

A new weekly series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. This week the theme of budget and funding disclosure continued to be a major focus of press on open governance, and…

For nearly two years, government schools in the Kasungu district of Malawi faced regular shortages of textbooks and other teaching materials, affecting the students’ ability to learn. To address the problem, a network of local civil society groups carried out…

At the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015 countries adopted a legally binding global climate Agreement that seeks to avoid the impacts of climate change by limiting global warming to below 2°C. The Paris Agreement demands that countries can…

Red tape in Romania is a huge headache that costs everyone time and money. New parents need to submit multiple versions of a package of physical documents to different government offices in order to register for their welfare allowances. Businesses…

The OGP Steering Committee will be meeting in Cape Town on 3-4 May. The agenda and papers for that meeting have been published here. Among other discussions there are a couple of decisions that need to be made on who the new co-chairs…