Resource

As OGP co-chairs in 2016-2017, the Government of France and World Resources Institute made climate change and sustainable development core priorities for their chairmanship. This resource explores benefits of a "whole of society" approach to climate governance.

What's in the New OGP National Action Plans? December 2016 The biennial development and implementation of NAPs is at the core of the OGP model. Since the start of 2015, 49 countries submitted new plans containing over 800 commitments. Given…

This guide aims to enrich the efforts of parliaments and their civil society counterparts to engage in collaborative processes aimed at developing and implementing openness commitments. The first section focuses on the development of openness action plans and the variety…

The Access to Information Working Group's flagship publication cataloguing A2I commitments made in OGP national action plans.

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Th​e Paris Agreement (link is external) adopted in December 2015 provides a framework for multilateral cooperation…

Local communities can suffer from negative social and environmental impacts associated with the establishment and operation of oil, gas, and mining projects. These impacts include land use conflicts, lack of water availability, water and soil contamination, air pollution, erosion, involuntary…

With 51 countries developing new national action plans (NAP) by June 2016, there is a unique opportunity to commit to good governance of the oil, gas and mining sectors, which are at a particularly high risk of corruption in resource-rich…

Contract disclosure helps address the severe trust deficit in the natural resource sector, and cultivates an atmosphere of cooperation among those deeply invested in the success of, and are greatly impacted by, extractives operations: governments, companies, and communities. Disclosure helps…

Each OGP government partners with civil society to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to improve governance. OGP has become a global movement of reformers working to make government more effective and responsive to its citizens.…