2020 has been a challenging year as various countries worldwide continued to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects. Nonetheless, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) provided hope for continuing advocacy on participatory governance, transparency, and accountability. The
OGP community adopted new and more significant ways of doing things.

Responding to unprecedented challenges from global health crisis, the OGP Global granted a one-year implementation extension of member countries’
Action Plans through the Criteria and Standards Subcommittee-Coronavirus Resolution. Commitment holders now have until August 31, 2022 to carry
out their OGP commitments. The Philippine OGP Steering Committee then developed and approved the Guidelines on the Extended Implementation of its
5th National Action Plan (NAP).

The co-creation process for updating the commitments included in the PH-OGP 5th NAP for 2019-2022 continued under the new normal. Both government and non-government institutions were actively involved in various online consultations to adjust the priorities, modalities, and timeframe of the plan. Online bilateral meetings, sectoral consultations, and
commenting via the PH-OGP Official Facebook Page
resulted in participatory and responsive commitments
to the revised plan