Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Winning Conditions for Effective Implementation of OGP Natural Resource Commitments

By Elizabeth Moses and Marie Lintzer, World Resources Institute

OGP countries make more commitments in natural resources than in fields like health or education - but the implementation still isn’t at a high level. The World Resources Institute, in conjunction with the Openness in Natural Resources Working Group, looks at how countries can create and implement effective natural resource commitments in this blog post.

Open Data in Closed Societies

By SmallMedia

When you think open data, you generally don’t think of Iran. But if you look hard enough, you can find open data in even the most repressive of regimes. In this series, Small Media looked at open data in closed societies - the opportunities, the ethics, and the hard questions we need to ask ourselves.

Participatory Budgeting: Waves Around the World

By Brian Wampler, Stephanie McNulty, and Michael Touchton

Participatory budgeting began in Porto Alegre, Brazil - now it’s reached all around the world. How did it develop? What’s important about participatory budgeting? In which kinds of societies does it flourish? In this series, the authors explore the roots and future of participatory budgeting. Check it out here, here, and here.

Don’t forget to fill out the OGP Civil Society Engagement survey! Also available in French and Spanish.

OGP in the News - October 2017

By Jacqueline McGraw, Communications Associate, OGP

OGP news in October went from Liberia to Pakistan, through Chile and into the World Bank, and introduced our new Ambassadors and Envoys to the world. Read more here.