Transparency in MENA

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

An independent Jordanian media platform producing investigative journalism and data-driven storytelling.

Africa's largest network of civic technology and data journalism labs, with initiatives reaching across North Africa.

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

A Lebanese organization advancing the right to access information, filing information requests and publishing public budgets in accessible formats.

A Tunisian anti-corruption watchdog founded after the 2011 revolution, monitoring public spending, elections and integrity.

A pioneering independent Tunisian media collective producing investigative, data-driven journalism on democracy, rights and accountability.

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 open dataset and analysis of Moroccan election results, turnout and parliamentary activity across multiple election cycles.

Al-Hayat Center's long-running programme monitoring Jordanian elections and parliamentary performance to advance electoral reform.

A transparency effort filing access-to-information requests and publishing Lebanese public-administration budgets in user-friendly formats.

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.

An open-source tool by OCCRP for searching and cross-referencing large document and data sets in investigations.

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.

Lebanon's leading civil society portal, cataloguing organizations, projects and resources to strengthen coordination.

An Innovation for Change MENA dashboard helping civil society use open data to track and evaluate public policies.

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

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

How monitoring, open results data and parliamentary tracking make elections more transparent across MENA.