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Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Open Government Partnership (OGP)
EU Transparency Register
776567719425-17 First registered on 04 Nov 2015
Goals / Remit
OGP’s vision is that more governments become sustainably more transparent, more accountable, and more responsive to their own citizens, with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of governance, as well as the quality of services that citizens receive. This will require a shift in norms and culture to ensure genuine dialogue and collaboration between governments and civil society.
OGP aspires to support both government and civil society reformers by elevating open government to the highest levels of political discourse, providing ‘cover’ for difficult reforms, and creating a supportive community of like-minded reformers from countries around the world.
Now that OGP is established and has grown significantly, our key objective over the next two years is to make sure that real change is happening on the ground in a majority of OGP countries, and that this change is benefitting citizens.
There are three primary ways for OGP to help make sure the right conditions are in place for countries to deliver ambitious open government reforms:
1) Maintain high-level political leadership and commitment to OGP within participating countries
2) Support domestic reformers with technical expertise and inspiration
3) Foster more engagement in OGP by a diverse group of citizens and civil society organizations
In addition, OGP's Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) seeks to:
4) Ensure that countries are held accountable for making progress toward achieving their OGP commitments.Main EU files targeted
The European Commission's Open Data Strategy, EU Anti-Corruption Report, and others.
Address
Head Office
1110 Vermont Ave NW Suite 500
Washington DC
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 3 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Sangita Sigdyal (Interim Chief Operating Officer)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Sangita Sigdyal (Interim Chief Operating Officer)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
Grants Made in 2014
United States Agency for International Development (USAID): $700,000 (July 2014 to June 2016)
Department for International Development (Government of the United Kingdom): £780,000 (January 2014 to March 2016)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Government of the United Kingdom): $225,000
Hivos: €2,600,000 (Towards the 2015-18 OGP Strategy)
Twaweza: $40,000
2014 Contributions (In USD)
Government of Brazil: $31,000
Government of Indonesia: $200,000
Government of Mexico: $100,000
Government of New Zealand: $50,000
Government of Norway: $300,000
Government of the Philippines: $100,000
Government of South Africa: $100,000
Government of Tanzania: $25,000
Government of the United Kingdom: $150,000 (Half of annual contribution from the Cabinet Office)
Government of the United Kingdom: $420,000 (Half of annual contribution through Department for International Development grant mentioned above)
Government of the United States: $350,000 (Annual contribution through USAID grant mentioned above)
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 16 Dec 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Exchange of views on the Open Government Partnership and possible cooperation on fostering transparency, accountability and good governance in developing countries Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)