Level of Government: Local

Like governments around the world, African countries have shifted enormous resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Given such massive spending, fiscal transparency is more important than ever to minimize financial mismanagement and corruption.

South Cotabato’s first action plan focuses on thematic areas of importance to the province: open information, open monitoring and evaluation, open contracting, open mining, and open legislation. These..

Reynaldo S. Tamayo, Jr., the Governor of South Cotabato, Philippines, explains how their electronic logbook considers the most affected and vulnerable communities who may not have access to internet or electronic devices while still upholding people's rights and privacy.

Read how Austin, United States is working to improve civic participation and transparency in the decision-making process for community court contracts. This commitment is featured in the "What's in the 2019 Action Plans" publication.

In 2020, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Design Report for South Cotabato's first action plan (2018-2020). The report covers the development of the action plan and the design o..

COVID-19 shocked our lives. More than 7 million people worldwide have tested positive for the virus, with frontline workers, health systems, and vulnerable populations suffering the most. COVID is dis..

Open government reformers from the Asia-Pacific region discuss how to maintain inclusive civic participation and hold and expand civic space during the COVID-19 crisis. Watch the recording...

La Libertad’s 2018-2020 action plan presents an opportunity to improve citizen participation in the region via the platform “Decide La Libertad”. Citizens provided inputs during the co-creation proces..

Meet Jen Bretaña, the OGP Government Point of Contact for South Cotabato, Philippines, and learn how the province is improving public procurement, increasing access to information, and bringing citizens closer to their government.

In this new series, OGP Multi-Donor Trust Fund recipients share their challenges and successes in making OGP co-creation processes more collaborative and inclusive.

“Initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership open new and improved communication channels between government and citizens, and enable local government to have better information and be more ac..

In 2019, after following the city’s work on open government for a year, I began representing WRI Brasil (the Brazilian office of the World Resources Institute) in the Fórum de Gestão Compartilhada (Sh..