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Advancing open fiscal governance at the local level

Open government champions in Mexico face significant challenges at the federal and state levels. The federal open government partnership process stalled after the espionage carried out by the previous administration and only recently got back on track. At the same time, open government processes in many states have stalled (see short summary of recent subnational…

Open Government beyond OGP: Reflections from Veracruz, Mexico

January 16, 2019 Michael Moses, Managing Director for Programs and Learning Our Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation, David Sasaki, was tweeting recently about the Open Government Partnership (OGP), as part of the conversation spurred by this piece by Alex Howard. David, who knows Mexico very well having worked there for a number of years,…

Siguiendo el Dinero y Abriendo el Gobierno al Nivel Local en México

To read this blogpost in english, please click here. A inicios de mes conversé con representantes de institutos estatales de acceso a la información en México sobre cómo apoyar el progreso hacia una gobernanza fiscal más abierta a nivel local (La presentación utilizada en el evento está acá). El evento marcó el inicio de una segunda…

Following the Money and Opening Government at the Subnational Level in Mexico

Jorge Florez – Project Manager August 22, 2017 Para leer este blog en español, haga clic aquí Earlier this month I joined representatives from Mexican state-level Access to Information Institutes to discuss how we could support progress towards more open fiscal governance at the subnational level (our presentation at the event is here – in Spanish). The event marked…