For over a decade of Open Government Partnership (OGP) in the Philippines, we have successfully implemented commitments responding to various social and governance issues at the local and national levels. This year, the PH-OGP will be ushering the 6th action plan cycle. The process will be guided by the PH-OGP Participation and Co-Creation Framework drafted in accordance to the global standards set forth by OGP and through the wealth of experience from successfully co-creating and implementing five (5) Action Plans. The PH-OGP Participation and Co-Creation Framework encapsulates a hybrid of best practices and international benchmarks with guidance notes on carrying out the process during the pandemic. The framework is designed to ensure that the next National Action Plan (NAP) shall be formulated from the ground-up to directly respond and benefit the public by enabling a more extensive feedback mechanism in consulting its stakeholders across regions and sectors. Its commitments will...

Through the Freedom of Information-Project Management Office (FOI-PMO), the Philippines successfully led the first online convention with FOI champions in Asia last January 28, 2022 to discuss the groundwork for the formulation of the Asian Access to Information Alliance (AIAA). With the primary goal of co-developing FOI programs, projects, policies, and practices, an FOI alliance is envisioned to foster a greater culture of mutual cooperation and open exchange of information across Asia. The event was kicked off by PCOO Undersecretary and FOI Program Director Kristian R. Ablan. He shared the untiring efforts of the FOI-PMO to seek and seize prospects for the program’s growth as well as to lay the foundation for the country’s implementation of an FOI law.  Usec. Ablan advocated the creation of an international alliance for peer-learning and benchmarking among Asian countries in implementing FOI. Commissioner Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena of the Sri Lankan Right to Information Commission and...

The Citizen Participatory Program (CPA) of the Commission on Audit (COA) bested 45 other program nominations from across the globe and emerged as the first-place winner in Asia and the Pacific Region in the OGP Impact Awards presented during the opening plenary session of the OGP Global Summit held in Seoul, South Korea and online via ogpsummit.org last December 15, 2021. The OGP Impact Awards was launched together with the OGP Local Innovation Awards as part of the 10th anniversary celebration of OGP in commemoration of the hard work of open government champions and reformers from its 79 member countries advocating for transparency, accountability, and citizen participation in public governance. The CPA program was piloted in November 2012 as a strategy of the Commission to improve civic participation in the public audit process.   In the same year, the CPA was also identified as one of the priority activities under the Philippines-Australia Public Financial Management (PFM) Program....

The PH-OGP Secretariat is happy to announce the Academe, Business Group, and Public Sector Union Representatives to the Philippine-OGP Steering Committee 2020-2022! They are: Get to know our Representatives! The Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance is a private research and training organization based at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila, Philippines. JRIG promotes integrity, innovation, and inclusiveness in governance and policy through research, training, and community engagement. The Institute cooperates with government, civil society, private sector, academe, and donors in conducting programs and projects that generate data and knowledge to improve governance and policy outcomes. It manages a Knowledge Development Center as a hub for research collaboration and public dialogue. JRIG has been a Steering Committee member of the PH-OGP since 2014. As a Steering Committee member, DLSU has worked with the DILG in accomplishing the agency’s commitments under PH-OGP National...