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Transforming the Courts: Judicial Sector Reforms in Kenya, 2011-2015
When Willy Mutunga became Kenya’s chief justice in 2011, he made reductions in judicial delay and corruption top priorities. Drawing on previous plans to fix the same issues, Mutunga and his team developed a far-reaching reform program: the Judiciary Transformation…
Fiscal Transparency in Open Government Partnership Countries, and the Implementation of OGP Commitments: An Analysis
This note has been prepared as background for the meeting of the Fiscal Openness Working Group (FOWG) in Mexico City, on 27-29 October 2015. The FOWG is a collaboration between the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Support Unit, the Global Initiative…
Open Government in Uruguay: Strengthening dialogue to make up for institutional challenges
In Uruguay, innovative practices of consultation and dialogue between government and civil society have enlarged the scope of open government reforms. All the actors involved agree on the priority of access to information commitments as part of the action plans.…
Open government and transparency reform in Chile: Balancing leadership, ambition, and implementation capacity
Chile is a successful open government reformer. The implementing agencies have achieved the targets set in the national action plans for transparency and access to information commitments. These reforms are changing administrative practices and attitudes about transparency and access to…
Assessing the Evidence: The Effectiveness and Impact of Public Governance-Oriented Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
By Brandon Brockmyer & Jonathan Fox Transnational multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) – voluntary partnerships between governments, civil society, and the private sector – are an increasingly prevalent strategy for promoting government responsiveness and accountability to citizens. While most transnational MSIs involve using…
Improving Government – Civil Society Interactions within OGP
This report, commissioned by Hivos and carried out with a grant of the IDRC in Canada, looked at government-civil society interactions within 9 OGP member countries: Peru, Honduras, Chile, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, Croatia, Romania, and Armenia. The central questions…
Gaps and opportunities for standardization in OGP members’ open data catalogs
The co-leads of the OGP Open Data Working Group wrote automated scripts to automatically collect, normalize and analyze data from catalogs, in order to both set a baseline and identify gaps and opportunities for standardization. The bulk of this document…
Enhancing citizen engagement with open government data
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in 2011 implemented the Full Disclosure Policy which directs local government units (LGUs) to post public finance documents including receipt and utilisation of funds in LGU websites. The objective is to make…