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Over the past decade, the Open Government Partnership has been home to thousands of relentless, creative, and inspiring trailblazers, innovators, and deeply committed reformers taking action to make a difference. In its second decade, there is a need and opportunity for the Partnership to build on lessons learned to date to take open government from niche to mainstream, to tackle the biggest challenges of a world much more complex than when OGP was launched in 2011.

Join OGP reformers in government and civil society during Open Gov Week as they launch the Partnership’s strategy for the next five years (2023-2028) to better serve the community of reformers around the world and tackle the challenges of today.

Road to #OGPEstonia

Registration for the 8th OGP Global Summit is open!

You can now register for this year’s OGP Global Summit taking place in Estonia from September 6-7. The deadline to register is May 28, 2023.

Co-hosted by the OGP co-chairs, the Government of Estonia and Anabel Cruz, this Summit will bring together our diverse global community in person for the first time since 2019 to exchange experiences, best practices, and progress on open government issues and importantly to contribute to advancing the new OGP strategy. Learn how the Summit agenda is being designed and watch for an update and opportunities for input on the OGP Global Summit website on May 1.

Apply for 2023 Open Government Awards

Did you know applications for the 2023 Open Government Awards are now open? This year, OGP wants to recognize and reward inspirational open government reforms. Applications will be open from today until May 13, 2023. The awards will be revealed during the OGP Global Summit in Estonia from September 6-7.

For more information and how to apply, click here.

PM Kallas invited Summit for Democracy participants to the OGP Summit

The Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, invited Summit for Democracy participants to the OGP Global Summit in Tallinn. "The Summit will support strengthening the engagement of civil society and we will focus on open government in the digital age."

Watch her full remarks.

Faces of Open Government: Joara Marchezini

Joara Marchezini, Public’s Representative to the Escazu Agreement.

Joara Marchezini is a specialist on access to information and the Public’s Representative to the Escazu Agreement. Joara, originally from Brazil, sat down with OGP to discuss the role of open government in advancing environmental democracy. Read more here.

Open Gov Week 2023

Open Gov Week will take place May 8-12! During the week, we will use our time as a community to launch and implement OGP's five-year plan, which focuses on making open government the norm across all levels and branches of government and becoming a hub of stories and inspiration for all.

How can you participate?

Submit your event on our website.
Promote your Open Gov Week events using our customizable template here.
Visit our toolkit to see suggested messaging, social media cards and more!

Voices of Open Government

Empower Civil Society, Strengthen Democracy: In our final episode of Season 2 of Voices of Open Government, Anabel Cruz, the Founding Director of the Communication and Development Institute, provides valuable insights on the importance of building more open and inclusive communities. Listen as she shares her inspiring story as a political refugee and how it has influenced her life-long mission to strengthen civil society and citizen participation.

On A Quest to Raise Young Voices: Ebenezar Wikina has made it his mission to empower and engage youth in governance issues that affect their daily lives. In this episode, Ebenezar shares his insights on the importance of youth engagement in the political sphere and how he’s working to inspire young people to become active participants in shaping their communities.

Insights + Events

Building the Partnership's Next Chapter Together

Open government reformers continued to lead the charge in 2022. National and local OGP members made 392 new commitments across 50 different national and local action plans. Explore OGP’s 2022 Annual Report here.

How Participatory Budgeting Shapes Communities in Lithuania

By Ieva Dunčikaitė and Deimantė Žemgulytė, Transparency International Lithuania

In the last couple of years, participatory budgeting has caught hold in Lithuania where two-thirds of municipalities proactively implement participatory budgeting. In this blog, you can find a list of recommendations and tips based on the Lithuanian experience.

Supporting Local Initiatives to Deliver Better Service

Read how awardees of The Local Accelerator Awards were able to jumpstart the implementation of their reforms and lay the foundation for long-lasting, citizen-centered change in this blog.

OGP Local

💻 Blog

Following Kaduna’s Footsteps: How Adamawa Makes its Budget More Participatory

Following the example of OGP Local member Kaduna state, another state in Nigeria decided to create a space where citizens could freely engage and voice what they want included in the state budget. Read more here.

📹 Videos

Discover how reformers are using open government values to address the many challenges in their local jurisdictions, including inclusion, climate change, and digitalization, and more.

Watch all videos on Youtube.

🌏 Local roundup

- West Nusa Tenggara and West Sumbawa, Indonesia, presented their initial assessment of their action plan and are working collaboratively to strengthen it.

- Maipu, Chile held an event to launch their action plan accompanied by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

- The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil and the Province of Cordoba, Argentina coordinated the third meeting of the OGP Local Circle on Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030 to discuss civil society’s commitment to civic education. Watch the recording here.

- Civil society representatives in Kaduna State, Nigeria held a session to validate the nominated commitments for the State’s third OGP action plan.

- Catalonia, Spain held a co-creation session to introduce gender as a cross-cutting issue in open data as part of their action plan. Catalonia’s Citizen Observatory Against Corruption also held a colloquium on "Women Alerters Against Corruption".

- As part of its action plan, the municipality of Rosario, Argentina, launched the first version of the ‘Data and Gender Approach Guide’, a guide to help address gender and diversity at the municipal level, focusing on how data are collected, processed and used to build public policies.

Discover more and share your own on the OGP Local Slack workspace.

Steering Committee Updates

Following an open nomination process and a public comment period, The OGP Steering Committee Selection Committee has selected a shortlist of Civil Society candidates for the OGP Steering Committee. Candidate credentials and application documents are available to the public.

Visit our website for more information on the timeline and selection process

World of Open Gov

- See highlights from Sanjay Pradhan’s visit to Wellington, NZ, and Melbourne, Australia, alongside an interview on how we can further strengthen democracy amongst stakeholders.

- Open Ownership is hiring a regional manager for LATAM and a MEL Manager.

- Read Open Ownership's latest blogs on Summit for Democracy highlights, beneficial ownership in Zambia and South Africa

- Watch Open Ownership’s webinar on sanctions, ownership data transparency.

- Apply to the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellowship to join a young cohort of changemakers to work on re-imagining and co-creating equitable and inclusive futures! Applications are open until June 2.

- Global Integrity has released an Expression of Interest for next phase of Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE).

- Publish What You Pay Australia is currently looking for a National Director.

- The Open Contracting Partnership is empowering women and rural farmers in Palmira. Read more in their latest story.

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