Building on two decades of experience in the region, the MENA-OECD Open Government Project provides support to Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia in the design and implementation of their open government policies through a strategic mix of analytic support, capacity building, and international events that convene key stakeholders in sharing good practices. In doing so, the OECD seeks to support core governance principles of transparency, integrity, accountability, and participation as well as related digital and innovation initiatives to improve outcomes across the full spectrum of public policy.

Our Work on Open Government in the MENA region includes:

• Strengthening Open Government at National Level
• Supporting Open Government at Local and Municipal Levels
• Promoting Transparency and Accountability
• Promoting Civic Space and Innovative Stakeholder Participation
• Enhancing Public Communication and Media Ecosystems

• Working Group II - Open and Innovative Government is a platform promoting regional exchange and dialogue to support MENA countries in exploiting the potential of open and digital government.

• Meeting of the MENA-OECD Working Group on Open and Innovative Government, 3-4 October 2022, Rome (Agenda/Summary)

• Citizens’ Voice: Effective public communication for enhancing open government and supporting the COVID-19 recovery, 30 March 2021

• First Bureau Meeting of the MENA-OECD Working Group II on Open and Innovative Government, 29 March 2021

• High-level launch of the Open government scan of Morocco, 21 January 2021, Rabat, Morocco

• High-level National Dialogue Event, 15-16 December 2020, Amman, Jordan

• High-level launch of the development of the national strategy on open government, the civic space scan and the public communication scan of Tunisian Municipalities, 12 November 2020, Tunis, Tunisia

The OECD has been working with the Department of Administrative Reform within the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Administrative reform in Morocco on the implementation of the access to information law. With the help of the OECD, the national portal on access to information (chafafiya.ma) was officially launched on March 13, 2020, as part of the Transparency platform, which serves as a one-stop shop that enables citizens to make access to information requests to any public administration. The OECD also supported the development of a video capsule to further raise awareness among citizens around this initiative.

The OECD has been working with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation via its Open Government project in Jordan, which focuses on supporting the design and implementation of open government National Action Plans. Through the establishment of the Open Government Unit within the Ministry,the project has also helped promote the open government principles of transparency, integrity, accountability and participation throughout the government.

• Open Government
• Open Government Reviews
• The Toolkit and Case Navigator for Open Government
• The Open Government Recommendation is available on the online Compedium of OECD Legal Instruments in English & French
• Summaries of the Recommendation are available in English, French, Spanish & Arabic

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