Open Government in Honduras: Towards Effective Implementation

This chapter analyses the open government agenda in Honduras within the broader context of ongoing public sector reforms, placing special emphasis on the government’s ambition to increase public sector transparency. The chapter finds that Honduras has made important progress in establishing rules, governance and implementation frameworks. Notably, the country has been implementing Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plans for many years and its ambition to build an open state has been expressed through the adoption of an Open State Declaration. However, Honduras faces several challenges with regard to open government delivering its promise of a more transparent, accountable and participatory government, in particular relating to a lack of proper implementation and evaluation.