Open Government in MENA

A Tunisian civil society organization monitoring parliament, municipalities and public budgets to strengthen transparency.

An independent Moroccan non-profit using technology to strengthen citizen participation and more transparent, accountable governance.

A Moroccan think tank producing open data and evidence on elections, parliament and public institutions to inform citizen debate.

A Jordanian NGO promoting accountability, governance and participation, best known for its RASED election-monitoring programme.

A parliamentary monitoring project tracking legislators' attendance, votes and activity to strengthen accountability.

A local-government observatory letting residents track their municipality's council, budget, assets and projects.

An online platform where Moroccan citizens post questions and proposals directly to members of parliament for public reply.

The leading open-source data management system used by governments worldwide to run open-data portals.

A free, open-source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations to run consultations and budgets.

The most widely used open-source citizen-participation platform, letting governments run debates, proposals and participatory budgets.

Morocco's national open-data portal publishing government datasets in reusable, machine-readable formats.

An Al Bawsala platform visualizing Tunisia's public budget to make government spending understandable to citizens.

A global multi-stakeholder initiative where governments and civil society co-create open-government reforms, with members in MENA.

An independent EU-backed endowment offering flexible support to pro-democracy actors, including unregistered groups and individuals.

A grant-making foundation supporting non-governmental groups working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries.

One of the world's largest private funders of independent civil society, supporting rights, justice and accountability worldwide.

How digital tools are reshaping participation, deliberation and accountability across the Middle East and North Africa.

The core principles of open government — transparency, participation and accountability — and what they mean in practice.