Fifth National Action Plan on Open Government (2021-2023).

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was founded in September 2011 and currently more than 78 countries and 76 subnational governments have already joined OGP. Brazil, which is one of OGP co-founders, has been working intensively to strengthen OGP principles and practices and therefore advance towards building a more open government. OGP’s main objective is to disseminate and encourage around the world the implementation by governments of the principles of transparency, social participation, accountability and innovation. In general terms, OGP seeks a new model of political administrative relationship that gives the citizen priority in public policies and whose specific values and principles inform strategies for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies and administrative modernization processes. OGP member countries must prepare National Action Plans establishing commitments and the strategies and activities to implement them. The implementation period for OGP action plans depends on the schedule proposed by the Partnership and its development process must include civil society engagement, since citizen participation is a key OGP pillar.
The development of the Fifth National Action Plan, which began at the end of 2020 in the midst of a challenging scenario, was based on a methodology similar to the previous one, with improvements aimed at expanding the participatory process’ scope and diversity. In addition to public consultations aimed at choosing the Plan’s themes, for the first time two new consultations were opened. Before each workshop stage, public consultations were held to receive contributions to inform experts in co-creation workshops, with a view to expanding civil society’s participation.