Public Purpose: Civil Service Insights on Beneficial Ownership Data
This report captures the experience of public officials across different sectors on how they use beneficial ownership data in ways that go beyond anti-money laundering efforts.
Research Product
Parliamentary Transparency: Does it Improve Behavior, Trust, and Policy?
The goal of this state-of-the-evidence review is to distinguish and highlight research on topics relevant to legislative transparency and to foster its use by Open Government Partnership (OGP) stakeholders.
Leveraging OGP for UNCAC Implementation
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) provides an action platform for governments to commit to anti-corruption reforms. Governments can embed commitments from international initiatives like the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) into OGP action plans for stronger implementation and accountability.…
Fiscal Openness in Nordic+ Fact Sheet (June 2024)
Fiscal transparency has been an area of great achievement for members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), including the Nordic+ region...
Countering Kleptocracy through Open Government and Democratic Oversight
Kleptocracy, "rule by thieves," distorts state institutions for elite gain, harming source and host countries. Explore a two part series by The National Democratic Institute and OGP that offer actionable strategies for OGP members and local governments to combat transnational kleptocracy, safeguarding governance, economies, and national security.
OGP Fact Sheets
Explore global progress and member-level examples of open government work in each of the selected policy areas and various regions.
Open Gov Guide (2024)
The Open Gov Guide is the “how-to” resource on applying open government principles to real-world challenges. It is a one-stop shop for concrete recommendations, examples of reforms, and international standards and guidance to help reformers, whether they are working on…
IRM Report on Local Action Plans 2021-2022
This report draws out innovations and obstacles faced by local open government reformers over 2021-2022. You can explore lessons learned, success stories, and new approaches to open government from the 29 local governments that implemented OGP commitments during this period,…
OGP Local Brochure (2023)
Discover how OGP Local empowers local governments and civil society to make governments more open, inclusive, participatory and accountable to their citizens. Explore the benefits of joining OGP Local and find open government examples from cities and regions around the…
State of the Evidence: Algorithmic Transparency
This literature review by Matías Valderrama, María Paz Hermosilla, and Romina Garrido focuses on transparency in a broader sense and seeks to bring more clarity to the concept of algorithmic transparency by identifying some of the main mechanisms that have been proposed in the literature to promote it.