Content Category: Policy Resources

How can governments build a more constructive relationship with civil society? Get started with four steps outlined by OGP members at a recent Democratic Freedoms Learning Network here.

The Autonomous Republic of Ajara is a political-administrative region of Georgia. Its Supreme Council is made up of 21 congresspeople who represent about 350,000 citizens. While the Autonomous Republic of Ajara is not a member of OGP Local, its legislative body, the Supreme Council, has played a significant role in promoting open government values.

Learn about Argentina's efforts to integrate gender and diversity perspectives into Argentina’s fourth open government national action plan as a tool for mainstreaming into future open government commitments.

English and Spanish versions of the executive summary are available as web text and PDFs below. The full document is available in Spanish on Government of Argentina's website here. Annex: Mainstre..

Explore three ways advocates in Tijuana, Mexico, are engaging the community and using open justice and artistic approaches to allow citizens to more fully exercise their rights and improve relations between migrants and authorities.

This paper is part of the background research for the Skeptic’s Guide to Open Government (2022 Edition). Peter Noorlander developed it with guidance from the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Ini..

In this episode, Andrej Leontiev walks us through his experience as an anti-corruption lawyer and the movement for beneficial ownership transparency reform in Slovakia and globally.

A key part of democracy at the local level is providing citizens with the opportunity to take action on the issues that are important to them. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the area of urban p..

Public participation is at the heart of OGP, so it was no surprise that it was a frequent topic across community conversations during the consultations for...

Have you ever searched an online government transparency portal only to find that the vital information you hoped to find is not there or that the portal itself has disappeared? If so, you’re not alone. Over the last decade, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has reviewed countless commitments that promise to deliver a transparency portal as the antidote to a wide range of governance challenges.

Over the last decade, OGP members have made 159 commitments to make the governance of gas, oil, and mineral extraction more open to the public. Extractive sector reforms are notoriously politically an..

Every year, governments across the world spend over USD $13 trillion (around 12% of global gross domestic product) through public procurement. Yet, various studies show that 10 to 25% of the value of ..