Region: Europe

The UK leads the way with a pioneering beneficial ownership register, in an effort to stem corruption and strengthen measures against money laundering and tax evasion.

Overview At-a-Glance Action Plan: Action plan - Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, 2021 - 2025 Action Plan Submission: 2021 Action Plan End: August 2025 Lead Institution: Khmelnytskyi Communal ..

The Open Government Partnership is a global partnership that brings together government reformers and civil society leaders to create action plans that make governments more inclusive, responsive, and..

Overview At-a-Glance Action Plan: Action plan - Aragón, Spain, 2021 - 2023 Action Plan Submission: 2021 Action Plan End: March 2023 Lead Institution: Directorate General for Open Go..

Italy’s online platform OpenCoesione publishes both budgets and expenditures of European Union Cohesion Funds and Italian National Funds for territorial development to make public spending more transparent for its citizens.

In France, the Digital Republic Law requires that all algorithms used by the government be made open and accessible to the public. Etalab has produced guidance for government agencies on the legal framework and how to publish this information, and is working on practical guidance to build public registers of algorithms. Through this work, France’s citizens can start to see how the government uses algorithms to make decisions that may impact them, laying the groundwork for greater accountability.

The Open Government Partnership is a global partnership that brings together government reformers and civil society leaders to create action plans that make governments more inclusive, responsive, and..

Platforms in Ukraine make the public procurement process more transparent and allow citizens to monitor it.

In 2021, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Transitional Results Report for the Netherlands' third action plan (2018-2020). The report covers the level of completion and the resul..

France implemented new open data clauses in government contracts, increasing competition between firms when applying for these contracts – eventually leading to better quality services for citizens.

Participation from women in leadership positions in Germany was either stalling, or even falling. A new legal act, brought into effect in 2015, introduces obligations and incentives to improve gender representation in private and public leadership positions.

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