Local Roundup | July 2022

Here’s our monthly roundup of updates from the OGP Local community for July 2022.

ACTION PLAN

• Government points of contact and the monitoring bodies from Basque Country, Catalonia, Aragón, and Madrid met to share the experiences of their first inception reports.
• Mexico City and Cuauhtémoc held the inaugural planning session for their first OGP action plan.
• São Paulo City Hall held the “Virada ODS”, an event to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals to popularize  the sustainability goals and mobilize its citizens as part of one of the commitments of their third action plan.
• The Principality of Asturias held the constitutive meeting of its Open Government Forum.

ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

• Osasco, Brazil moves into the next phase of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy Award “Best Practice in Citizen Participation”, showcasing its innovative approach to working with public budgets.
• Listen to this chat with Peñalolen, Chile about women in open government.
• In Kaduna, Nigeria, the civil society organization CODE is building the capacity of legislators on effective constituency service delivery, and a forum of government and civil society partners is calling for social register audits.
• The organization Acción Colectiva discussed ways to create more inclusive open gov policies on gender in Rosario, Argentina.
• The Núcleo de Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil en México (NOSC) in coordination with the government of San Pedro Garza García, the government of Monterrey, Consejo Nuevo León, COTAI and Accountability Lab gave a capacity building session on open government, gender and sustainability.
• The Generalitat de Catalunya and civil society presented the progress of their anti-corruption commitment before the Anti-Corruption Summit in the Parliament of Catalonia.
• Plateau, Nigeria Civil society coalition praises Governor Lalong for his efforts in restoring peace and adopting transparency, accountability and open governance approach
• At the Congreso CIDEU “Ciudades que Cuidan” it was announced that the Mayor of Bogota, Colombia assumed the Presidency of the network and the Intendente of Mendoza, Argentina assumed the Vice-Presidency.

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