Registrar General Alhaji Garba Abubakar from the Government of Nigeria discusses milestones in Nigeria's beneficial ownership transparency work and how Nigeria’s open government journey led to this moment. 

Meet Cesar Nicandro Cruz-Rubio, a policy researcher at GIGAPP and member of OGP’s International Experts Panel. Cesar explains what the IRM refresh means for the open gov community and how the IRM is adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Africa particularly benefited from providing open access to legislation and set an example that other countries can follow.

Learn about the European Parliament's Legislative Train, one of many initiatives by the European Commission aimed at making law-making processes more open and effective.

Meet Jen Bretaña, the OGP Government Point of Contact for South Cotabato, Philippines, and learn how the province is improving public procurement, increasing access to information, and bringing citizens closer to their government.

Isaac shares his team's work to improve municipal services and infrastructure in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana through open government solutions.

IRM researcher of Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya, Ruth shares notable achievements and pending challenges out of the County.

Meet Suneeta Kaimal, an advocate for the protection of civic space and natural resource governance.

Lessons from Reformers: The government of Nigeria made a commitment in its first OGP action plan (2017–2019) to adopt the OCDS in its public procurement systems.

Lessons from Reformers: After the successful launch of the ProZorro e-procurement platform in 2015, Ukraine launched DoZorro...

The Open Government Partnership works with reformers inside and outside of government to make sure that citizens have a role in their democracy beyond the ballot box...

Mary Francoli is the International Experts Panel (IEP) Chair and Associate Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University You are a chair of the International Experts Panel (IEP), the body overseeing OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism. How would you explain the role…