Arantza Otaolea from the Bilbao Women's Council and co-president of OGP Euskadi, and Mikel Barturen from Sareen Sarea, an association that groups the networks of entities of the social sector, are participants in OGP Euskadi's civil society forum. In this interview, they share why citizen participation is fundamental to open government.  

With the rise of a strong open contracting community in Asia, OGP and the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) launched the Asia-Pacific cohort of the Open Government Leadership Collaborative. Learn how the cohort provided opportunities for reformers to channel innovation.

In our June Faces of Open Government feature, we discuss Nigeria’s success in beneficial ownership transparency in the extractives sector and recommendations for how member countries can begin to implement the new strategic shifts and goals from OGP’s 2023-2028 strategy.

The city of Hamburg in Germany has a history when it comes to open government. One essential step was taken in 2012 when the city introduced Hamburg’s Transparency Act, a pioneering effort in Germany. Hamburg set up a Transparency portal…

What steps can the United States take to further transparency and accountability? Alex Howard offers six concrete steps to lead on open government by example.

Latin America and the Caribbean adopted the Escazu Agreement to guarantee the rights of all people to have a healthy environment, to develop sustainably, and to fight against inequality and discrimination.

As we face challenges that affect our democracies the need to integrate a local perspective to identify innovative solutions to the most pressing issues cities face is more evident than ever.

“One of the most favorable outcomes of encouraging collaboration between civil society organizations and the Regional Council is improved communication,” reflected a Moroccan civil society leader at the conclusion of Béni Mellal-Khénifra region’s open government reform co-creation process. Since 2016,…

For those of us working on OGP Local, there is much to be excited about and look forward to in OGP’s 2023–2028 strategy. It is at the local level where ...

Canada is currently drafting our first, whole-of-government Open Government Strategy. This follows the launch of the new global Open Government Partnership Strategy, which Canada helped develop as a Steering Committee member.

The new OGP Strategy 2023-2028 has highlighted that there can be no open government without free civil society and that  OGP is an “equal partnership between government and civil society”. To strengthen this...

Isabel Moya Pérez is the Deputy Director General of Open Government of Spain and shares what her country did during their own OGW and how the new OGP strategy can help foster more open and accountable democracies.