Open Government Partnership

The Open Government Partnership provides an international platform for domestic reformers who want to make their governments more open and accountable to citizens.

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was formally launched in New York on 20 September 2011. The 8 founding governments were:

  • Brazil
  • Indonesia
  • Mexico
  • Norway
  • Philippines
  • South Africa
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

There are now , making up around a third of the world population. Civil society participation is vital to the OGP and has equal representation with governments in the OGP steering committee.

To join, the country needs to show a commitment to open government in areas such as fiscal transparency, access to information, disclosing politicians鈥� and senior officials鈥� salaries and public engagement.

The government must then publicly sign up to the and draw up a national action plan.

Read the UK draft National Action Plan.