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A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. Following last week’s successful Americas Regional Meeting in Montevideo, press coverage of OGP turned to our next major international event: the 2016 Global…

How the Open Government Partnership is boosting COP effectiveness Collective Action: A love-hate relationship Collective action presents challenges that are widely recognized, yet people continually prefer to work together. Governance practitioners recognize that the issues we work to address are…

A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. The biggest news in the world of OGP this week was the Americas Regional Meeting, where some 500 individuals from around the world…

By June 30th, the Open Government Partnership Support Unit is expecting to receive 51 final National Action Plans in both the country’s administrative language and English so we can upload them onto opengovpartnership.org.  Well, not exactly.  While the official submission…

Speech by Sanjay Pradhan at the OGP Americas Meeting, Uruguay 1 June 2016 Thank you, Uruguayan government and civil society, for hosting this wonderful conference and for welcoming us so warmly on this cold morning. It is an extraordinary pleasure for…

P is for Partnership, and that is the mantra that U.S. Embassies in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Slovakia have adopted with our OGP counterparts.  In June 2015, we organized a ten day International Visitor on Demand visit to the United…

This post is the second in a short series that GIFT will be running to provide ideas for the 51 member countries currently preparing their next Action Plans. The first post discussed the steps OGP countries should take in their…

Want to read this blog in English? Este texto fue escrito conjuntamente por siete organizaciones de la sociedad civil de Brasil. El Grupo de Trabajo de la Sociedad Civil (GT), en coordinación con la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (Open…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Since OGP’s inception, countries in the Americas region have had high energy and enthusiasm for the OGP process. Despite this incredible energy, the region is lagging in overall commitment ambition. The latest IRM numbers…

Want to read this blog in English? Durante los últimos 5 años, la región de las Américas se ha caracterizado por su alto nivel de energía y entusiasmo en el proceso OGP. A pesar de esta increíble energía, la región…