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Moving Forward: Announcing the OGP Working Group Workplans
The Open Government Partnership Working Groups have been very busy since their launch at the OGP Summit in London last October. Each group has been reaching out to government and civil society participants to build a network of reformers and…
Moldova making steps towards a more inclusive and participatory process around Open Government
Moldova.jpg The Government of Moldova took a different and more participatory approach on developing and consulting the new open government action plan for 2014-2015. The launch of the new process, which is significantly different from last year and which actively…
Strengthening local participatory planning and budgeting: Revisiting focus and strategies of citizen groups
Even before the recent decision of the Philippine Supreme Court declaring the legislators’ pork barrel (also known as Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF) unconstitutional, public finance experts and good governance advocates in the country have raised possible alternatives to…
OGP IRM Local Researchers Call
OGP IRM Local Researchers Call The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of the Open Government Partnership is seeking individuals to carry out research at the national level in 33 countries to assess government progress on implementation of OGP Action Plans. Background The…
European Parliament votes to increase transparency of decision-making
EPPlenaryvote.jpg This article originally appeared on Access Info Europe and has been republished with permission from the author. Access Info Europe has welcomed the decision[1] by the European Parliament to bring greater transparency to its decision making by recording and publishing…
Liczy się miasto – City counts: The first participatory budget monitoring in Poland
Poland blog.png This piece was co-authored by Kalina Michocka. In 2013 the Polish organization Jeden Świat and the Dutch Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation started a project to introduce budget monitoring in the cities of Konin and Kalisz in…
To deserve the trust of its citizens, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina must be more open
Website www.budzeti.ba has been launched - Civil society organizations, journalists and citizens do not have appropriate access to public data - An ad hoc coalition of non-governmental organizations that advocates Open Government Partnership has been established An Open Data event…
Three Cohort 2 Countries Will Not Receive IRM Reports
The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) is in the process of publishing 35 progress reports on the group of countries that joined OGP at the Brasilia Summit in 2012 - known as Cohort 2. IRM progress reports are designed to…
EU Calls on Spain to Strengthen Transparency Law: Will there be an OGP commitment?
Spain anti-corruption.png The anticorruption reports published by the EU at the beginning of February confirmed the worry that many Europeans had about the perceived levels of corruption in Europe: Eurobarometer survey results showed that three quarters (76%) of Europeans think…