Europe

Denmark’s fourth Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan (2019–2022) continued to focus on digitizing the public sector and publishing open data. The action plan resulted in the creation of a portal with data on the climate (Commitment 3) and a…

Romania’s fifth action plan improved the country’s legislative framework for open data and established a new Open Government Partnership (OGP) multi-stakeholder forum. However, its implementation rate declined with the onset of COVID-19 and institutional changes in government. Early Results Four…

Montenegro’s third action plan has 20 commitments, covering citizen participation, open data, free access to information, fiscal transparency, anti-corruption, and open government at the local level.[1] For the purposes of assessment, the IRM clustered national commitments with local commitments that…

Bulgaria’s fourth action plan renewed national engagement in the open government process. It includes a promising commitment on COVID-19 anti-corruption efforts. Reformers inside and outside government will need to adapt to a fractious political period to successfully implement commitments. AT…