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This post originally appeared on the WaterAid blog. Social accountability is an essential part of efforts to achieve universal access to water and sanitation. Louisa Gosling, WaterAid’s Quality Programmes Manager, reports on key lessons heard at the Global Partnership for…

ESPAÑOL This September marks OGP’s fifth year anniversary. In just five short years, we’ve grown from being a start-up initiative to a partnership of 70 participating governments and over 2,500 civil society organizations. To celebrate the milestone, we are making…

President John Pombe Magufuli has surprised and delighted many people in Tanzania and beyond, by some of the actions he has taken in his first few months as president. Together with his Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, the President swept through…

A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. This week, a diverse array of open government articles surfaced across Europe. Following the “Brexit” vote of June 23, a significant piece came…

Country: Mongolia Commitment: Improving Environmental Information Access for Citizens National Action Plan: 2014-2016 While Mongolia is a compliant country in the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), many agreements and contracts related to natural resources extraction remain closed and inaccessible to…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? OGP is a global movement of reformers, trying to catalyze innovative ideas to create meaningful reforms. An integral part of this movement is the learning process, where governments, civil society actors, and citizens can…

OGP es un movimiento global de reformadores que intentan generar ideas innovadoras que resulten en reformas de alto impacto. Un componente clave de este movimiento es el aprendizaje, en el que actores de gobierno, la sociedad civil y la ciudadanía…

Dear friends, colleagues and members of the greater OGP community, I began serving as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Open Government Partnership on May 6. It’s been quite a wonderful whirlwind of activity -- these first few weeks have…

Estimados amigos, colegas y miembros de la comunidad de OGP, A partir del 6 de mayo he ocupado el cargo de Director Ejecutivo de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP por sus siglas en inglés). Ha sido un torbellino…

Want to read this blog in English? Este mes presentamos una mirada retrospectiva a la cobertura en los medios para el mes de junio, especialmente algunas historias de recapitulaciones semanales más detalladas, (para las semanas del 30 de mayo, 6 de…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? This month we are featuring a look back at press coverage of OGP for all of June, highlighting some of the main storylines from the month’s more-detailed news recaps (from the weeks of May 30, June…

Want to read this blog in English? Para los que trabajamos en la Unidad de Apoyo de Open Government Partnership a veces parecen complejos los componentes que conforman a OGP. Cuando llegué al Jamboree del Mecanismo de Reporte Independiente (IRM…