Eastern Partnership

26 POCs on one stage!   Early last month, 26 OGP Points of Contact or POCs, (the people who serve as liaison between their government and the OGP support unit) met for a 2-day regional meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia opened…

Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Minister Thea Tsulukiani and all the Georgian government and civil society leaders here today - we thank you for hosting this meeting of European members of the Open Government Partnership. It is no accident that we…

Tomorrow the first ever European Region Government Point of Contact (POC) conference will begin in Tbilisi, Georgia. This conference will bring together more than 50 public servants from 21 Open Government Partnership (OGP) participating countries in order to share experiences,…

In this section of the OGP newsletter, we feature individuals from government and civil society, and ask them about their experiences. Here is what Giorgi Kldiashvili from Georgia had to say:   a. How does open government make a difference in peoples lives? …

On March 2, 2015 three civil society organizations submitted a letter of concern to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) regarding the climate for civil society to operate in Azerbaijan. The letter was filed under the OGP Response Policy, which aims…

Transparency International Ukraine, almost a hundred of NGOs and experts sent the Prime Minister an open request to urgently take the implementation of the international Open Governance Partnership initiative (OGP) under control. In accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers’ order…