The European open government community met at the OGP Europe Regional Meeting in Rome, Italy at a critical time when democracy and open government are under threat externally from events such as the Russian invasion and internally from a growing lack of citizen trust.

La comunidad europea de gobierno abierto se reunió durante el Encuentro Regional de OGP de Europa en Roma, Italia en un tiempo crítico en el que la democracia y el gobierno abierto enfrentan amenazas externas por eventos como la invasión…

On 11 October 2022, the CEO of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Sanjay Pradhan, the Director of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Rafael Benitez, and the Executive Director of the Association of Ukrainian Cities (AUC) Oleksandr Slobozhan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support in the reconstruction of Ukrainian communities after Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Explore findings from the 23 action plans submitted by OGP member countries during the 2021 submission period.

There have been a total of 69 locally-focused OGP commitments in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in national action plans and among the OGP Local members from the region. Tbilisi joined the OGP Local program in 2016, and several municipalities from…

In this interview, we talk with the government points of contacts for Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine; Ozurgeti, Georgia; and Vanadzor, Armenia to learn how their first OGP action plans are going.