An Open Government Needs Access to Justice | Open Government Partnership

As governments and civil society organizations work to develop shared commitments for their 2017 National Action Plans, they should consider integrating concrete commitments on legal empowerment and access to justice.  Legal empowerment organizations should be further integrated into the OGP community, so that they can help develop effective access to justice commitments grounded in the daily realities of the communities they serve. South Africa and the Philippines have extended their outreach to such organizations through the consultation phase and have important justice commitments as a result.