Region: Asia and the Pacific

In this episode, we speak with Erfan Erzaz, an Afghan open gov reformer now resettled in Canada, about Afghanistan’s history to see if it can provide insight on why democracy fell. We also discuss the contributions of open gov reformers in the country and the lessons we can all learn from Afghanistan’s democratic efforts.

August 30, 2022 marks one year since the United States withdrew all troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban forcibly took control of the country. Read about Afghanistan’s journey in OGP and what the open government community can do to help reformers in the country.

Meet Siti Juliantari “Tari” Rachman, an anti-corruption advocate in Indonesia. Tari shares how her interest in fighting corruption began and how she’s supporting Indonesia’s OGP commitment to open up contracting information and publish emergency procurement information on the national procurement portal.

This product consists of an IRM review of Mongolia’s 2021–2023 action plan. The action plan is made up of nine commitments that the IRM has filtered and clustered into eight. This review emphasizes it..

Now more than ever, it is critical that countries in the region address civic space restrictions both through the OGP framework and beyond. Here are a few actions to take.

This product consists of an IRM review of the Republic of Korea’s 2021–2023 action plan. The action plan is made up of 14 of commitments, evaluated as 16 commitments in this report to reflect distinct..

In 2022, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Action Plan Review for Mongolia's fourth action plan. The report provides a technical review of the action plan’s characteristics and t..