Other Resources 30th October 2013

Open Government Guide

The Open Government Guide is a resource for people working to make their governments more transparent, responsive, accountable and effective.

It is designed in particular to support the Open Government Partnership (OGP).

The guide highlights practical, measurable, specific and actionable steps that governments can, and are taking across a range of cross-cutting and focused areas. The topics currently covered are listed below, and more will be added in future:

Cross cutting topics	Focused topics
Assets disclosure and conflicts of interest Budgets Citizen engagement Open government data Privacy and data protection Public contracting Public services Records management Right to information Whistleblower protection	Aid Construction Consumer protection Elections Environment Extractive industry Fisheries Land Parliaments Police and public security Security sector Tax and Illicit flows

Each Topic has been developed by an expert organization and offers a flexible menu of ‘illustrative commitments’.

Initial steps – steps that a country can take starting from a relatively low baseline.
Intermediate steps – actions that countries can take once they have already made moderate progress
Advanced steps – established best practice demonstrated by the most advance performers
Innovative steps – new approaches which countries are trying out

For each step the Guide lists relevant standards and guidance, and examples in practice.

Recommendations – detailed guidance from expert networks
Standards and guidance – key principles, guidance, reports, rankings and tools
Country examples – examples in practice from around the world.

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