Open Government Partnership Global Summit

Researchers will present the IRM progess reports for South Africa and Norway. A representative from the respective government and a CSO representative will respond to the findings.

Members of the Fiscal Openness Working Group (FOWG) will share with the audience an update about their fiscal transparency commitments; special attention will be devoted to the engagements that involve public participation. IBP will provide an update of the main findings of the Open Budget Survey 2015. GIFT will provide an update about the peer learning and technical support it has been providing, particularly: analysis of the fiscal transparency commitments at OGP, the open fiscal data package and the public participation principles.

This session will include the presentation of the IRM Progess Reports for Indonesia and the Phillipines. In each presentation, the researcher will present their main findings, followed by responses by the government representative and the CSO representative.

This session will take a look at how the principles of OGP fit into the bigger picture of reform and development in participating countries. It will be a dynamic talk show discussion among three government representatives and two members of civil society moderated by the World Bank. Each panelist will be given one of the following questions to respond to: (1) Do countries interpret the OGP principles differently depending on their domestic context? (2) How do you see the principles of OGP playing out in your national processes? (3) How do the OGP principles influence policy and open debate?

This session presents a mix between a roundtable and fireside chat. The facilitator would open the session with some brief framing remarks about the current debate on access to information and open government data. After this remarks, the facilitator would provide a number of questions for participants to discuss.

This session will include the presentation of the IRM Progess Reports for Brazil and the UK. In each presentation, the researcher will present their main findings, followed by responses by the government representative and the CSO representative.

Advancing the OGP and its participation has been slower in Asia-Pacific region than that of other region. This session will explore the opportunities and challenges for broadening the base of OGP in Asia and the Pacific. Government and civil society leaders will identify and address whether or no OGP fits in the regional approach to governance and what are some of the challenges and explore the Eastern solutions to improving governance. Identifying what works and what does not work at both the subnational and national levels.

This session will showcase new tools under development at CIVICUS that track and measure the quality of civic space around the world. The session's panel discussion format includes presentations on the Civic Space Monitor concept as well as Civic Pulse. Panelists will discuss what has been going on behind the scenes with these initiatives.

This session has the objective of letting the audience to learn how OGP-member countries have used Permanent Consultation Forums to strengthen multi-stakeholder engagement and to promote innovation and accountability throughout the 2-year National Action Plan cycle. By the end of this session participants will have: identified how Permanent Consultation Forums can help build a true multi-stakeholder partnership and foster innovation in Action Plan Commitments; become acquainted with country-cases where Permanent Multi-Stakeholder Consultation Forums have been successfully implemented; acquired guidance on good practices related to consultation during implementation and Permanent Multi-Stakeholder Consultation Forums; and identified concrete ideas or action-items related to the content of the session that could be implemented in participants’ national OGP process.

The aim of the session focuses on raising awareness among participants on the importance of the new instruments in the public sector to promote transparency and managing for results. In this set of instruments to promote RBM (Pay for Success) are Public-Private Partnerships, Social Impact Bonds, among others. In each of these strategies underlies the concept of transparency and open government.