Topic: 15 Years of Stories

Public participation brings direct input from ordinary people into decision-making processes. Learn how OGP members have advanced participation reforms over the past 15 years.

Over the past 15 years, OGP member countries have made significant progress in applying the principles of transparency, participation, and public accountability to open up the budgeting process to the people they serve.

Over the past 15 years, OGP has helped establish open contracting as a global norm. Collectively, 59 percent of OGP countries are currently disclosing contracting data in Open Contracting Data Standard format.

In the past 15 years, nearly 30 countries have shown concrete results while implementing their OGP commitments around legislation, civic participation, and public registers.