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'Tis the season of OGP Regional Meetings!

With our Americas meeting (www.OGPMontevideo.uy) less than a week away, it's a good moment to reflect on just how useful these gatherings can be. In this new piece, Francis Lasana of Accountability Lab speaks about what he's learned since the Africa meeting earlier this month.

Taking Open Governance From Cape Town to Monrovia
"Open Government for Sustainable Development in Africa” was the theme for this year’s Open Government Partnership Regional Conference for Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference brought together over 900 participants from all corners of the world, including a small delegation from Lib...
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Open Government Partnership invites proposals from NGOs and representatives from civil society for its Global Summit, to be held in Paris, France on December 7,... 8 and 9.

NGOs and representatives from civil society from the OGP countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey) are eligible to apply.

More information is available below.

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Open Government Partnership Global Summit: Inviting the Representatives of Civil Society
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) invites proposals from the NGOs and representatives from civil society for its Global Summit.
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"This was purely about collaboration; this was true co-creation. So if we accept that working together is better than working alone, then we can do stuff like this."

Excited about next week's Americas Regional Meeting in Uruguay (www.ogpmontevideo.uy) and the 2016 OGP Awards (opengovawards.org)? Then you'll want to see this presentation...

OGP Awards - First Place: Daniel Carranza, Uruguay
OGP Global Summit Mexico 2015 OGP Awards - First Place: Daniel Carranza, Uruguay OGP website: http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ OGP Twitter: https://twitter...
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Want your voice and experience to form part of the agenda at our fourth Global Summit? The deadline for submitting proposals is coming up fast!

Open Government Partnership Global Summit 2016
Submit your proposal now
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¡Anunciamos la convocatoria para los ‪#‎OGPAwards‬ de 2016! Este año el tema será “haciendo que la transparencia cuente” y inscripciones están abiertas hasta el 27 de junio.

¡Los ganadores serán reconocidos durante la Cumbre Global este diciembre en París!

Launching the Open Gov Awards 2016 - Civil Society Organizations Step Up!
OGP is launching the 2016 Open Government Awards today! The Awards have consistently been one of the annual highlights of OGPs calendar. They shine a spotlight on reformers and convince us that difficult open government reforms can be achieved. In the past they have generated lots of excitement and…
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¿Aún no te has inscrito para ‪#‎OGPMontevideo‬? Comienza en apenas dos semanas, así que ¡apuráte vos!

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The 2016 Open Government Awards process kicks off today!

Are you a reformer interested in showing that even the most difficult open government challenges can be tackled? Then register by June 27th to enter one of your country's OGP initiatives!

Open Government Awards
In 2016, OGP is taking one of its foundational values – transparency – and asking applicants to show its real promise for both governments and citizens.
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"Corruption is a hydra-headed monster and a cankerworm that undermines the fabric of all societies."

We welcome the announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria is joining OGP. See our blog for the full text of his speech at the Anti-Corruption Summit in London. –> bit.ly/24Ob7N0

With the Panama Papers looming large over tomorrow's Anti-Corruption Summit in London, Transparency International puts forward a "checklist" for the event.

And for Joe Powell's three ways OGP can help deliver real change from the summit, see our blog! –> bit.ly/1Xjs4N5

The Anti-Corruption Summit: a global opportunity
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1 year after African leaders committed to taking on ‪#‎beneficialownership‬ and combatting illicit financial flows -- and 1 month after ‪#‎PanamaPapers‬ revelations -- South Africa commits to corporate transparency. Joint release w/ Tax Justice Network - Africa (TJN-A).

A month after Panama Papers, South Africa commits to end anonymous companies
Just one month after the Panama Papers hit newsstands, the South African government has committed to tackling the very type of hidden ownership that was central to many offshore structures scrutinized in the months-long investigation.
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We are thrilled to welcome Sanjay Pradhan as our new CEO!

Read more here: bit.ly/1YkcizI

Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid
How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three gu...
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“Where pockets of excellence exist, they should be replicated in other countries," says Ayanda Dlodlo at ‪#‎OGPAfrica2016‬. "There should be peer exchange and peer learning support, and that’s what we have with the Open Government Partnership.”

See it on the CNBC Africa website: bit.ly/1SQaePP

The 2016 OGP Africa Regional Meeting is underway!

En français: http://bit.ly/1rXJBPo

"Now we do not shout from outside or scream through the windows; we actually sit and dialogue on the table..."

With ‪#‎OGPAfrica2016‬ kicking off right now, check out this quote of the month and other exciting pieces in our Africa-themed May Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/b0ndwX

Quote of the Month- Marcella Samba-Sesay
Marcella Samba-Sesay Director of Programmes Campaign for Good Governance in Sierra Leone
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"OGP needs to strike the right balance between the ambitious and the feasible and we are not doing that quite right in many African countries."

Bridging the Ambition-Implementation Gap in OGP Africa
Electoral boundaries in Kenya. Unifying all national bank accounts in Sierra Leone. Mapping conservation areas in South Africa. Land ownership data in Liberia. For those who follow events in each of these countries, these are all big ideas with potentially big results. And they were all in the most…
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With our Africa Regional Meeting just a few days away, Rakesh Rajani of Tanzania offers his reflections on the development of OGP over the past five years and its significance for the continent.

"Government is Us."
Q&A with Rakesh Rajani
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Nous vous proposons de vous joindre a nous à Paris en Décembre. Que proposez vous?

The OGP Africa Regional Meeting is next week!

Interested in "Aid Transparency"? How about "Accountability in Action"? Check out all the exciting sessions on the agenda on the official webpage!

OGP Regional Meeting: Cape Town
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We have six new civil society members on our Steering Committee!

Announcing the six new members of the OGP Steering Committee
Late December OGP started the search for six new civil society steering committee members - a unique opportunity for talented and committed civil society leaders to further shape OGP, represent the interests of the civil society community and assure that ambitious open government reforms get deliver…
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"The question is what can we do, together, to strengthen enabling environments and protect civil society space." ‪#‎ICSW2016‬

En español: bit.ly/1WfLL7M

What’s Open Government got to do with Civic Space?
Closing civic space is a worrisome trend surfacing across regions. As we sit reading this, civil society activists from Azerbaijan to Turkey, Hungary to Honduras, are facing situations where their freedoms to operate and speak freely and - in many cases - even their lives, are under threat.
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