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Economists may argue about the precise mechanisms through which the quality of public governance underpins economic prosperity but organisations like the OECD and the World Bank have long advocated policies founded on this linkage. Their consistent advice is that greater…

The Open Government Partnership Working Groups have been very busy since their launch at the OGP Summit in London last October. Each group has been reaching out to government and civil society participants to build a network of reformers and…

Moldova.jpg The Government of Moldova took a different and more participatory approach on developing and consulting the new open government action plan for 2014-2015. The launch of the new process, which is significantly different from last year and which actively…

This post originally appeared on Martin Tisne's blog Open Up and has been republished with permission from the author.  Exciting Open Government Partnership (OGP) related development: a ‘private sector council’ has been created to develop recommendations for the OGP Steering Committee on engaging…

Even before the recent decision of the Philippine Supreme Court declaring the legislators’ pork barrel (also known as Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF) unconstitutional, public finance experts and good governance advocates in the country have raised possible alternatives to…

My name is Alonso Cerdán and I recently joined the OGP Support Unit as Program Manager for Direct Country Support. I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself and talk a little bit about the work that I will…

OGP IRM Local Researchers Call The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of the Open Government Partnership  is seeking individuals to carry out research at the national level in 33 countries to assess government progress on implementation of OGP Action Plans.  Background The…

Sunset in Dublin hdr.jpg Photo credit: Sunset in Dublin hdr by Edgaras via Flickr. The Europe Regional Conference for OGP will take place in Dublin May 8-9, hosted by the Irish Government.The planning committee for the conference are inviting ideas…

EPPlenaryvote.jpg This article originally appeared on Access Info Europe and has been republished with permission from the author.  Access Info Europe has welcomed the decision[1] by the European Parliament to bring greater transparency to its decision making by recording and publishing…

Recognising that good ideas come from everywhere, the Asia Pacific Regional Conference presents an opportunity to highlight innovative reforms in transparency, accountability and public participation that engance the state of open government across countries in the Asia region. Seven individuals…