Watchdogging is the intentional and often adversarial act of monitoring to hold government accountable, including interventions like generating public pressure for better behavior. We've separated this category from government transparency efforts, where governments and their partners proactively work to make government more accountable and facilitate public watchdogging.
The Promise Tracker tracks the progress of the ruling party, Kenya Kwanza, in actualizing its pledges as contained in the party manifesto from 13th September 2022 when President William Ruto was sworn in.
Congress Alerts is a lightweight SMS service that texts U.S. constituents a concise, human-readable digest of how their Representative and two Senators voted - no apps, log-ins, or jargon required.
CoST, the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST) is one of the leading global non-profits improving transparency, participation and accountability in infrastructure to deliver quality infrastructure that improves lives and strengthens economies.
Transparentes es una invitación a tomar el mando y construir un espacio donde la transparencia y la ciudadanía sean parte de cada jugada de la sociedad civil.
Freedom Forum is a non-governmental organization, working for institutionalization of democracy, protection and promotion of human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression and right to information in Nepal.
Contratados.org allows workers to share their experiences and write reviews about their recruiters and employers in order to make the recruitment process transparent and generate a mechanism for accountability for compliance or non-compliance with the obligations of employers and/or recruiters.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Votes in the UK’s Parliaments determine the laws that we all live by, and we want the information about who voted for what to be as accurate, easy to use and easy to understand as possible.
WhatGov makes UK Parliament easy to engage with, with a chat-style interface, debates rewritten in genz slang, and email/mobile push notifications to keep you informed.
The aim of this Municipal Budget Visualisation Tool is to make the management of local governments transparent to the local population and the wider society.
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The Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (APMON) is a network of non-governmental organizations and coalitions of civil society organizations that monitors the work of and/or regularly engages national, subnational, and regional parliaments across Africa.
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APMON is launching the “Civil Society- Public Finance Management (PFM) e-Course” for parliamentary monitoring organizations to strengthen their understanding and advocacy on parliaments’ role in PFM, debt transparency and accountability.
For the benefit of researchers, practitioners, and the public we are proud to host a comprehensive and growing structured database of judges and their financial interests.
Rule of Law monitoring platform - Govwatch is a collective map of the state of the rule of law in Greece, made up of reports not just from the Govwatch team, but also from civil society organisations, journalists and academics, and citizens.
New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦
PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.
Este proyecto nace con la intención de ser una campaña de sensibilización para proteger el derecho a la protesta y denunciar la persecución policial en espacios digitales.
Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) is a non-governmental organization based in Prishtina established in 2009 in order to support, promote and develop free and open source software.
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.
The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.
The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.
The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.