Mongolia has announced a National Action Plan (NAP) for 2016-2018 under the Open Government Partnership (OGP), today (19^th of September). J.Munkhbat, Cabinet Secretariat of Mongolia and James Anderson, Country Manager for the World Bank in Mongolia as well as Shreya Basu, Regional Civil Society Coordinator for the Asia Pacific of OGP attended the event.  

The Mongolian NAP aims at  to restore economic development in a short space of time, to stimulate public sector growth, to improve living standards and create an effective and trouble-free civil service.

By 2030 Mongolia strives to become a leading upper middle-income country with a growing multi-sector economy, where the majority of the population are either middle or upper class living in a good ecological environment and in a completely stable democratic society.

Mongolia received a star from the OGP for making significant efforts towards good governance, by passing numerous pieces of legislation such as the "Glass Account" Law (2014) and the Law on Information Transparency and Right to Information (2011).

Launched in 2011, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative which currently brings together 70 member states, NGOs and representatives from civil society in collegial governance.