Since January 2025, the federal government has seemingly stepped back from a range of good governance, transparency, and anti-corruption measures, from the February 2025 executive order pausing FCPA enforcement, to the March 2025 rule by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempting nearly all US companies from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting, to the shifting enforcement priorities of the Foreign Agents Registratio

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was created in 2011 to bring governments and civil society leaders together to “promote transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance,” through advancing national and local level policy reforms. Since then, the issues impacting transparency and good governance have expanded dramatically. To understand how the OGP and its members (currently 74 countries and 150 local governments) are approaching new challenges...