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Looking Ahead: Justice in OGP
Looking Ahead: Justice in OGP
2019 was the ‘year of justice’ and that trend is not slowing down in 2020. Read about the Justice For All strategy – a collaboration among justice partners – and the future of OGP's work in justice.

February 19, 2020

2020

Opening Debate: Challenges for Practicing Feminist Open Government in Brazil
Opening Debate: Challenges for Practicing Feminist Open Government in Brazil
When Brazilian civil society organizations, including Article 19 Brasil, started being part of regional and international conferences and conversations on open government, they felt that a Brazilian a..

February 18, 2020

2020

Faces of Open Government: Jen Bretaña
Faces of Open Government: Jen Bretaña
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.

February 18, 2020

2020

Extractive Industries, Transparency and Procurement – Increasing Alignment
Extractive Industries, Transparency and Procurement – Increasing Alignment
The movement for greater transparency in extractive industry governance and government procurement continues to march along at an inspiring pace.

February 13, 2020

2020

Bringing New Voices into OGP Action Plans: Stories from the Field
Bringing New Voices into OGP Action Plans: Stories from the Field
In this new series, OGP Multi-Donor Trust Fund recipients share their challenges and successes in making OGP co-creation processes more collaborative and inclusive.

January 28, 2020

2020

Every Voice Counts: Towards a More Inclusive OGP Co-Creation Process – Sekondi-Takoradi
Every Voice Counts: Towards a More Inclusive OGP Co-Creation Process – Sekondi-Takoradi
“Initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership open new and improved communication channels between government and citizens, and enable local government to have better information and be more ac..

January 28, 2020

2020

Living with Tension and Learning from Different Perspectives – São Paulo, Brazil
Living with Tension and Learning from Different Perspectives – São Paulo, Brazil
In 2019, after following the city’s work on open government for a year, I began representing WRI Brasil (the Brazilian office of the World Resources Institute) in the Fórum de Gestão Compartilhada (Sh..

January 28, 2020

2020

Why Citizen Ownership Matters – Elgeyo Marakwet County
Why Citizen Ownership Matters – Elgeyo Marakwet County
“I’ve liked the discussion today,” commented Alan Kipchumba, an Elgeyo Marakwet County-based contractor, “because the approach used was inclusive, thus participants represented various sectors and seg..

January 28, 2020

2020

The OGP story in Kenya: Building Political Will for Open Government
Since joining the Open Government Partnership in 2011, Kenya has been on a meandering journey. The process of co-creating and implementing Kenya’s OGP Action Plans has been marked by a multitude of ch..

January 28, 2020

2020

When Art Makes the Invisible Visible – Paraguay
When Art Makes the Invisible Visible – Paraguay
In November 2017, it was time to initiate the process of co-creating Paraguay’s fourth Open Government Action Plan (PAGA). The previous action plans had come together through collaboration between gov..

January 28, 2020

2020

Bringing Democracy to the People, One Municipality at a Time – Tunisia
Bringing Democracy to the People, One Municipality at a Time – Tunisia
"You know, since the revolution, no one has taken the initiative to listen to us. It was only shortly after the uprising that we lost hope that things would change for the better. Today, for the first..

January 28, 2020

2020

OGP Goes Local with a Push from CSOs – Serbia
OGP Goes Local with a Push from CSOs – Serbia
My first recollection of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Serbia is of a meeting held in late 2013 on the premises of what was then called the Ministry of State Administration (now the Ministr..

January 28, 2020

2020