PRESENTATIONS

• Open Government Partnership and its Impacts on Citizens and Parliaments. Member of the National Assembly Paula Forteza (France)
• Evolution of a Partnership and a Concept. Joseph Foti, Director of the Independent Reporting Mechanism, Open Government Partnership
• First Action Plan Open and Transparent Congress. Senator Mauricio Lizcano (Colombia), Vice-President of the ParlAmericas Open Parliament Network for South America
• First Legislative Visualizathon – PARALELO. David Bello, Winner of the Colombian Congress’s Legislative Visualizathon

RESOURCES

• The Open Government Partnership: An Overview for Parliamentarians in the Americas and the Caribbean. ParlAmericas, 2017
• Open Government Partnership, website
• Open Government Partnership, brochure
• Open Government Declaration
• Parliamentary Engagement Policy Guidance, Open Government Partnership
• Legislative Openness Data Explorer, National Democratic Institute, website

PRESENTATIONS

• Access to Information Act –The Canadian Model. Nancy Bélanger, Deputy Commissioner, Legal Services and Public Affairs, Office of the Information Officer
• Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer: Role, Legislative Mandate and the Importance of Data Access. Jean-Dénis Fréchette, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Parliament of Canada
• Open House Nova Scotia. Mark Coffin, Executive Director & Founder, Springtide
• The Role and Mandate of the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. Mary Dawson, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
• Public Engagement at the House of Commons. Eric Janse, Clerk Assistant, Committees and Legislative Services, House of Commons
• Senate Communications. Mélisa Leclerc, Director of Communications, Senate of Canada
• Indigenous Peoples and Participation in Parliamentary Process(es). Gwen Phillips, British Colombia Region Data Governance Coordinator, Co-chair of the national INAC Community Development Strategy Implementation Working Group and British Colombia First Nations Health Council Representative
• Legislative Action Plan – Paraguay. Senator Blanca Ovelar (Paraguay)
• Legislative Action Plan – Experience of the National Congress of Chile. Member of the Chamber of Deputies Patricio Vallespín (Chile)

RESOURCES

• Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, website
• Open data, House of Commons of Canada, website
• Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, website
• Open Parliament Canada, Civil Society Initiative, website
• Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner of Canada, website
• Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada, website
• Office of the Senate Ethics Officer, website
• Open Government Canada, website
• Participate, House of Commons of Canada, website

PRESENTATIONS

• Educating Citizens and Promoting Participation: Focus on Youth (18-30). Caro Loutfi, Executive Director, Apathy is Boring (Canada)
• Improving Local Governance in Jamaica. Prof. Rosalea Hamilton, Member of Board of Directors, National Integrity Action (Jamaica)
• Public Engagement and Sensitization Relative to the Business of Parliament. Senator Mauricia Thomas-Francis (Saint Lucia)
• Strategies for Citizen Participation at the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. Jason Elcock, Manager of Corporate Communications, Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
• Citizens Initiative for Participation & Good Governance. Sharda Ganga, Director, Projekta (Suriname)

RESOURCES

• Road Map Towards Legislative Openness. ParlAmericas, 2016
• Report: Citizen Participation Co-creation Meeting. ParlAmericas, 2017
• Report: 2nd Gathering of the Open Parliament Network of ParlAmericas: Strengthening the Ties between Citizens and Legislatures. ParlAmericas, 2017

PRESENTATIONS

• Towards Establishing a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) in Jamaica. Cheryl Gibson, Assistant Clerk, Parliament of Jamaica
• Fiscal Openness and Opportunities. Juan Pablo Guerrero, Network Director, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)
• Fiscal Transparency as an Element of Government Accountability. Sandeep Saxena, Senior Economist of the Public Financial Management
  Division, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Public Participation in Fiscal Policies. Juan Pablo Guerrero, Network Director, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)
• Public Participation in Budget Policy – The Story of Gender Responsive Budgets in Mexico. Manuela Garza, Founding Partner, Colectivo Cometa

RESOURCES

• Report: Workshop “Building Trust between Parliaments and Citizens”. ParlAmericas, 2017
• Budget Transparency Toolkit. OECD
• Recommendation of the Council on Principles for Independent Fiscal Institutions. OECD, 2014
• Draft Guideline for Operationalizing a Parliamentary Budget Office. The Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers, 2015
• Public Participation Principles Guide. GIFT, website
• The Fiscal Transparency Code. The International Monetary Fund, 2014

RESOURCES

• International Standards for Lobbying Regulation. Access Info Europe, Open Knowledge, Sunlight Foundation, Transparency International, 2015
• OECD Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying
• Laws and articles for lobby regulation in Latin America
  • Chile: Lobby Law (Law 20.730)
  • Chile: Lobby Law Platform
  • Colombia: Law 1474, Chapter IV: Regulation of lobbying
  • Mexico: Regulations of the Senate of the Republic, Chapter IV: On Impediments and Incompatibilities
  • Peru: Lobby Law (Law 28024)

PRESENTATIONS

• How to Implement a Budget Office or Other Control Tools in Parliament?, Nelson Shack, World Bank
• Open Budget Survey: An Instrument for Transparency in the Public Budget, Mario Martínez, Survey on Open Budget
• Latin American Index on Legislative Transparency 2016, Octavio Del Favero, Ciudadano Inteligente
• Infographic by the Budget Technical Assistance Office (OATP, Spanish initials) for the Congress of Colombia
• Parliamentary Initiatives Adopted for Communication and Citizen Participation, Member of Congress Welsy Vásquez (Honduras)
• Open Parliament for Public Budgets in Mexico, Guillermo Ávila, Fundar
• Public Participation in Budgetary Policies and Processes: International Perspective and Experience, Juan Pablo Guerrero, GIFT
• Perceptions and Progress of Parliaments: How Are We Doing?, Rocío Noriega, Bicameral Group on Transparency of the Congress of Chile

RESOURCES

• ​​Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, GIFT (website)
• Public Participation Principles Guide, GIFT (website)
• Principles of Public Participation in Fiscal Policy
• Open Budget Survey ​
• Corruption Perceptions Index 2016

* This workshop was held in collaboration with the World Bank, the Congress of Chile, and the Congress of Colombia.

RESOURCES

• Road Map Towards Legislative Openness, ParlAmericas
• Declaration of Commitment of the 2nd Gathering of the Open Parliament Network (OPN)
• Legislative action plans:
  • Chile (in Spanish)
  • Colombia (in Spanish)
  • Costa Rica (in Spanish)
  • Guatemala (in Spanish)
  • Paraguay (in Spanish)
• Legislative Transparency Index 2016, The Latin America Network for Legislative Transparency (LALT) (in Spanish)
• OGP Participation and Co-creation Standards
• Legislative Engagement in the Open Government Partnership

PRESENTATION MEDIA

• TV News (March 17, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• Radio interview featuring Senator Marcela Guerra (México), President of ParlAmericas, and Senator Hernán Larraín (Chile), President of the Open Parliament Network (OPN) (March 17, 2017), Matices, Radio Monumental (in Spanish)
• TV News (March 16, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• Inauguration (March 16, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• TV News (March 13, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• Press release (March 13, 2017) (in Spanish)

DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY WITH PERU PRESENTATIONS

• New horizons for citizen participation, Scott Hubli, National Democratic Institute (in Spanish)
• The role of CSOs in an Open Parliament, Agustina de Luca, Fundación Directorio Legislativo
• A step forward towards transparency, Senator Mauricio Lizcano (Colombia), President of the Senate
• Incorporating Gender Perspective in the Costa Rican Parliament, Haydee Hernandez Perez, Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
• Leveraging Citizen Engagement: Guiding Questions for Incorporating Citizen Engagement into the Legislative Framework, GovLab, Yale Open Government & Open Data Governance Innovation Clinic

RESOURCES

• Road Map Towards Legislative Openness, ParlAmericas
• What is Open Parliament?, ParlAmericas
• Best practices for the use of social networks by parliamentarians, ParlAmericas
• OGP Participation and Co-creation Standards
• Legislative Engagement in the Open Government Partnership
• Legislative Transparency Index 2016, The Latin America Network for Legislative Transparency (LALT) (in Spanish)
• World e-Parliament Report 2016, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
• Model Inter-American Law on Access to Public Information, Organization of American States (OAS)
• Inter-American Program on Access to Public Information, Organization of American States (OAS)
• Legislative action plans:
  • Chile (in Spanish)
  • Colombia (in Spanish)
  • Costa Rica (in Spanish)
  • Guatemala (in Spanish)
  • Paraguay (in Spanish)

INAUGURAL SPEECHES

• Member of the Legislative Assembly José Alfaro Jiménez (Costa Rica), Interim President of the Legislative Assembly (in Spanish)
• Senator Marcela Guerra (México), President of ParlAmericas (in Spanish)

During the 2nd Gathering of the OPN, the four vice-presidents of the OPN executive committee were elected:

• North America: Member of Parliament Marcela González Salas (Mexico)
• Central America: Member of the Legislative Assembly Karla Prendas (Costa Rica)
• South America: Senator Mauricio Lizcano (Colombia), President of the Senate
• Caribbean: Senator Saphire Longmore (Jamaica)

RESOURCES

• Road Map Towards Legislative Openness, ParlAmericas
• What is Open Parliament?, ParlAmericas
• Best practices for the use of social networks by parliamentarians, ParlAmericas