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Global Partnerships & Legislative Openness
Greg Brown // [email protected] // @gregbrownmNational Democratic InstituteCo-Chair, Legislative Openness Working Group
1. PMOs & Parliament
2. Open Government Partnership & Other Communities
3. Opportunities to Engage
PMOs & Parliament
“If the discourse of the PMO is similar to what the feeling of the people is – and doesn’t question the negative image that people have about the Congress – then we are not doing much.
If citizens don’t realize that Congress is a very important branch for a political system to work, then we’re not going to be a democracy."
– Mónica Pachón, Congreso Visible
Civil society can support legislative reform through:
Education | Advocacy | Collaboration
Around the world, over 200 civil society organizations are monitoring national and
sub-national legislatures:
Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations (PMOs)
OpeningParliament.org
Global Communities
What is the Open Government Partnership?
106 action plans
69 countries
2000+commitments
Role for Parliaments in OGP ?
Oversight and Review
Legislative Action
Institutional Commitments
6 countries published parliamentary openness plans
...with more likely to come!
The LOWG was created to encourage peer learning,
exchange, and collaboration among parliaments.
3 work streams for 2016
- Peer Exchange and Capacity Building - Comparative Data on Legislative Openness
- Institutionalizing Parliamentary Engagement
Peer Exchange and
Capacity Building
May 2015: International Open Data Conference (Ottawa)
Sept. 2015: LOWG Global Meeting (Tbilisi)
Oct. 2015: OGP Summit (Mexico City)
Aug. 2015: Meeting of the Pan African Parliament (Johannesburg)
May 2016: OGP Regional Meeting (Montevideo) May 2016: OGP
Regional Meeting (Cape Town)
Peer Exchange and
Capacity Building
May 2015: International Open Data Conference (Ottawa)
Sept. 2015: LOWG Global Meeting (Tbilisi)
Oct. 2015: OGP Summit (Mexico City)
Aug. 2015: Meeting of the Pan African Parliament (Johannesburg)
May 2016: OGP Regional Meeting (Montevideo) May 2016: OGP
Regional Meeting (Cape Town)
Dec. 2016: OGP Summit (Paris)
A week of openness activities around the world, with events hosted by the Legislative Openness Working Group and
members of the parliamentary openness community
Legislative Openness Working Group Global Meeting
Albania
Armenia
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia
Brazil
Chile
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
France
Germany
Hungary
Jordan
Latvia
Lithuania
Matla
Moldova
Montenegro
Poland
Serbia
Slovenia
South Africa
Sweden
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
UK
USA
Dedicated legislative “track” included:
● 8 Panel Discussions ● Half-Day Meeting for MPs
September 12-18...more information soon!
Global Data
GoodPractices
Various Categories
Comparative Data on
Legislative Openness
Global DataCommunity
Contributions
Contribute data on your parliament:
bit.ly/294Ow87
Parliamentary Openness and the Open Government Partnership: A Toolkit for Advancing Legislative Openness
bit.ly/29b1fud
&
1. Institutionalizing Parliamentary Participation
2. Strengthening Action Plan Development
3. Developing a Review Mechanism
Opportunities to Engage
● Global Legislative Openness Week (Sept. 2016)● OGP Global Summit Paris (Dec. 2016)● Data Explorer (Ongoing)
Other Global Communities
poplus.org parlamericas.org
Thank you!
Greg Brown // [email protected] // @gregbrownmNational Democratic InstituteCo-Chair, Legislative Openness Working Group
