Open Government Partnership

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Summary

To help inform governments, civil society and the private sector in developing their Open Government Partnership commitments, the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI) reached out to leading experts across a wide range of open government fields to gather their input on current best practice and the practical steps that OGP participants and other governments can take to achieve it.

The result is the first document of its kind to compile the state of the art in transparency, accountability and citizen participation across 20 areas of governance, ranging from broad categories such as access to information, service delivery and budgeting to more specific sectors such as forestry, procurement and climate finance.

Each expert’s contribution is organized according to three tiers of potential commitments around open government for any given sector—minimal steps for countries starting from a relatively low baseline, more substantial steps for countries that have already made moderate progress, and most ambitious steps for countries that are advanced performers on open government.

Chapter and contributing authors

1. Aid Transparency – Publish What You Fund
2. Asset disclosure - Global Integrity
3. Budgets – The International Budget Project
4. Campaign finance – Transparency International-USA
5. Climate finance – World Resources Institute
6. Electoral transparency – National Democratic institute for International Affairs
7. Electricity - Electricity Governance Initiative
8. Environment transparency, participation and justice  - The Access Initiative
9. Extractive industries - The Revenue Watch Institute
10. Fisheries – TransparentSea
11. Financial sector reform  Global Financial Integrity
12. Forestry – Global Witness
13. Land transparency - Global Witness
14. Military and intelligence budgets – Open Society Foundations
15. National security transparency and accountability - Open Society Foundations
16. Open government data – The Center for Internet and Society-India
17. Police and public security - Open Society Foundations
18. Procurement – Transparency International-USA
19. Right to information – Access Info and the Center for Law and Democracy
20. Service delivery – Twaweza

 

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