
Lessons from Reformers: Judicial Officers – Appointment and Accountability
Learn how OGP members are improving meritorious, transparent judicial appointments and judicial accountability and independence.
Over the past few years, justice and promoting transparent, accessible and inclusive justice systems has become an increased focus in the open government community. With this in mind, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) created the OGP Coalition on Justice, a group of OGP members, civil society organizations, and other national and international partners advancing a people-centered approach to justice through their OGP action plans.
All OGP members currently co-creating or implementing justice commitments will be invited to join this coalition. Civil society, private sector representatives, and multilateral and global organizations engaged in these reforms, will also be invited to join meetings of the Coalition.
As of October 2020, OGP national members co-creating or implementing justice commitments include:
Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Liberia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Uruguay
As of October 2020, OGP Local members co-creating or implementing justice commitments include:
Austin, United States; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Jalisco, Mexico; Tbilisi, Georgia
OGP members or other organizations that do not meet the criteria above can join meetings of the Coalition as observers. To indicate interest in joining a Coalition meeting as an observer, please complete the information in this form.
The inaugural meeting of the Coalition was on October 21. Please click here to share your ideas for upcoming activities by the Coalition.
In the run up to this inaugural meeting, the growing coalition of justice ministers and partners in OGP has met at key OGP and partner events, such as at a high-level roundtable at the OGP Summit in Ottawa.
The Coalition’s members agree to work together on a number of strategies to advance justice through OGP such as:
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