Open Government Partnership is a global initiative aiming to develop solutions to make the state management more efficient, trustful, transparent and human-centered as well as empower the active civic engagement in the decision-making and policy-making processes.

Over the past three years, our team at the UNDP in Armenia has actively supported the government to advance the open governance agenda. We have supported the government in a range of areas, from crowdsourcing the Second and Third National Action Plans to introducing new ICT solutions to make new innovation injections, engagement of new user groups and international promotion.

Back in 2015, with the technical assistance provided by the UNDP, Armenia won top award at OGP International Competition for its Smart Municipality project.

Through our numerous workshops, public meetups, as well as Public Sector Innovation weeks, we have managed to identify a set of public administration issues and suggest solutions.

Fast Forward to the 4th OGP Action Plan, Catalytic Open Governance project will act as an R&D support unit at the UNDP for open governance scaling up interventions. This new approach suggests a robust intervention with new innovation injections, engagement of new user groups and international promotion. The main components of the project are: subnational OGP, technical support through innovation and creating an efficient feedback loop for state-citizen communication.