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In addition to strengthening governance through more open, participatory and collaboratory practices; Open Government (OG) initiatives are expected to enable greater efficiency, innovation and competitiveness in government. Recent findings from analysis of the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) reports of OGP…

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…

All members of the Open Government Partnership have already voluntarily committed to opening their governments. Measuring the success of these open government reform efforts is a critical second step. One option is to look at legal and administrative tracking mechanisms.…

OGP's Research Agenda describes existing OGP data and research and outlines specific research questions that are as yet unanswered -  which OGP has identified as important for its work. This is targeted towards academics, think-tanks and independent researchers who are interested…

The majority of Malta’s fve commitments were not relevant to OGP values. Overall, the action plan lacked specifcity and ambition for making government more open. To make the next action plan more ambitious, the government could seek diverse input while…

In mid 2017, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published a Special Accountability Report for Slovakia's second action plan. The report covers the full action plan implementation period of 11 February 2015 through 30 June 2016. This report also includes the…