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by María Soledad Gattoni In the past few years, Argentina has gone through a cyclical process in terms of State openness public policies. The path traveled since the enactment of decree 1172/2003 on access to public information, its joining the…

by Jorge Umaña Cubillo Costa Rica’s administration from 2014 to 2018 included open government as one of three pillars of the National Development Plan: “Open government at the forefront of the fight against corruption”. The Government co-created the National Open Government…

by Marco Konopacki, Debora Albu, Fabro Steibel, and Victor Vicente Brazil’s Democratic Constitution of 1988 instituted six modes of participation in political life: direct suffrage, referendum, plebiscite, popular prosecution, policy councils and citizens' initiative draft bills. The latter mode allows the proposition of…

The Open Government Partnership is a learning organization. As a collection of governments, civil society, and multilateral partners, participants encourage each other to take ambitious commitments to open government. The reward for accomplishment is international and national recognition, and, in…

The Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) continuous growth over the years has had effect on the organization of the initiative, in particular on the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM). With 75 participating national governments and 15 subnational governments, the IRM has reviewed…

The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a key means by which stakeholders can track progress in participating countries. The IRM produces annual reports for each OGP country. Using IRM data on the implementation of…

No longer restricted to access to information laws and accountability measures, “open government” is now associated with a broad range of goals and functions, including public participation, open data, the improvement of public services and government efficiency. The 59 country…

OGP is proud to publish its 2017-18 research agenda. This research agenda aims to generate useful tools to directly support reformers in the field while maintaining OGP’s commitment to credible, evidence-based policy. Section I informs potential researchers of the areas…

The work in this publication was commissioned by Hivos and was carried out with the aid of a wider OGP research grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. Civic engagement is at the heart of OGP. However given…