09/27/2017: Interview with the President of the RED in the magazine of ACCREDITRA: Spanish Journal of Transparency.
11/30/2017: Exit from Canal RED FEMP for Transparency and Participation.

• Twitter account: @REDFEMP_TyP

• Email account: canalinfoRED@femp.es

• Google Plus Account: Canal RED FEMP Transparency and Participation

• Account on Facebook: @ChannelREDFEMPTransparenciayParticipation

30/03/2018: Article by the President of the RED on the Canal in the magazine Carta Local of March

09/30/2018: Presentation of the NETWORK in the III International Congress on Transparency held in Cadiz from 26 to 28 September. Intervention on the 26th.

03/24/2019: Interview of the President of the RED in the EFE Agency.

• Participation in the INAP Social Community.
• Participation in the Sectoral Commission and Open Government Forum.
• Contributions to Draft Regulation of the Law 19/2013.
• II International Congress on Transparency. 27-29/09/2017.
• IV Ibero-American Congress of Public Innovation. Novagob 2017. 18-20/10/2017.
• VII Aport Meeting and Pre-event Contribute. 23- 24/10/2017.
• Conference on the New Law on Public Sector Contracts. 06/11/2017.
• Participation in the Open Administration Week (7-11/05/2018).
• Participation in the UN Habitat Uraia Meeting in Brussels. 30-31/05/2018. Presentation of the Open Data Guide by the General Director of Legal Affairs and Territorial Coordination of the FEMP.
• Participation in the Seminar on Transparency and Citizen Participation in the Processes of Budgeting and Execution of Public Spending on Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), organized by the AECID and the Institute of Fiscal Studies. Speech by the Mayor of Arganda and Member of the Governing Council of the RED.
• Participation in III International Congress on Transparency. Cádiz, 26/09/2018.
• Participation on March 4th in the Conference on "Women, Transparency and Digital Citizenship", in the County Council of Jaén.
• Participation on March 27th in the II Congress on Compliance in the Public Sector
  

11/30/2017: II General Assembly of the NETWORK. Madrid.

04/12/2018: III General Assembly of the NETWORK. Arganda del Rey ( Madrid).

Meetings of the Governing Council of the RED:

• 30/03/2017: in Cornellá de Llobregat
• 05/07/2017: in Madrid
• 10/27/2017: in San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturias).
• 11/30/2017: in Madrid.
• 02/19/2018: in Puerto Lumbreras (Region of Murcia)
• 08/05/2018: in Elche (Alicante), coinciding with the Open Administration Week.
• 09/17/2018: in Orihuela (Alicante).
• 04/12/2018: in Arganda el Rey (Madrid).
• 02/27/2019: in Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga)

Study of the implementation of Law 19/2013 in the entities that make up the local administration (FEMP Agreement - Council of Transparency and Good Government). View Local Letter Number 303, June 2017

The 2018 study that refers to what was carried out throughout 2017 has been carried out through a questionnaire completed by local entities throughout the month of March. It has included 3 aspects to analyze: active advertising, right of access to public information and, for the first time, open data.

The 2018 study is being prepared as of June 30. It is in the extended field work phase as a result of the elections held.

As a result of this activity, different working groups have been set up to facilitate the effective implementation of open government policies by local entities. These working groups are promoted and coordinated by the local entities attached to the NETWORK and composed of local directors and technicians, experts from the university world and agents of civil society and the private sector. The following groups have been created:

• Open data
• Right of access to information
• Public innovation
• Protection of data
• Integrity and contracting
• Transparency of collegiate bodies
• Evaluation of public policies
• Citizen participation
• Good Government of small and medium Local Entities. Approved at the Governing Council of December 4, 2018. View Article from "The City Council Consultant".

Approved by decalogue and the infographic integrity and local public procurement by the Governing Council of 17 September 2018.

11/30/2017: Exit from Canal RED FEMP for Transparency and Participation.

• Twitter account: @REDFEMP_TyP
• Email account: canalinfoRED@femp.es

31/03/2018:

• Google Plus Account: Canal RED FEMP Transparency and Participation
• Account on Facebook: @ChannelREDFEMPTransparenciayParticipation.

03/27/2019:

Approval by the Council and Government and the NETWORK of the contract to carry out a new design of the NETWORK website.

Observer partners attached to the NETWORK:

Council of Transparency and Good Governance

Council of Transparency and Data Protection of Andalusia

Territorial federations of municipalities: Balearic Islands, Madrid, Asturias, La Rioja, Valencian Community, Aragon, Navarre, Cantabria and Andalusia

Transparency International Spain TIE (22/12/2017)

Ministry of Transparency, Participation and Communication of the Region of Murcia (31/03/2018)

Ministry of Transparency of the Generalitat Valenciana (08/05/2018).

Accreditra (08/05/2018).

Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands (04/12/2018).

Collaborating partners attached to the NETWORK:

CIVIO Citizens' Foundation

Access Info Europe

Alorza.net

Cosital

Partnership for Public Transparency

Good practices of EELL adhered to the Network:

• Access to public information without identification of the applicant.
• Transparency Guide for Secondary (students and teachers).
• Children’s stories (in Spanish and English) and teacher guide “The value of transparency.
• Gijón Open: Strategy of Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the City of Gijón.

5/07/2017: The FEMP presented the Guide “Open Data - Strategic Guide for Implementation - Minimum Data Sets to Publish” in ESADE Madrid

03/22/2018: The FEMP presented two new publications on Transparency at INAP, the result of the work of the Right to Information Group:

• Comentarios sobre aspectos clave en materia e acceso a la información pública.
• Procedure Guide for Access to Local Public Information

06/25/2018: Presentation of the publication "Guidelines for the adaptation of local administrations to the General Data Protection Regulation".

04/12/2018: Presentation of 3 new RED publications at the III RED General Assembly held in Arganda del Rey (Madrid):

• FEMP 2019 Open Data
• Local Participatory Governance
• Public innovation at the local level

05/14/2019: Presentation at the FEMP:

• Guide to Integrity in Local Public Procurement.

Over the two-year duration of the Plan, two general assemblies have been held (which have also incorporated issues of open government) and RED has participated in both national and international events. Once this is done, we are in a position to hold a Congress within the IV Open Government Plan.

This activity includes the celebration of training actions in collaboration with transparency control bodies, local entities and territorial federations of municipalities.

Training actions held:

• Day held in Oviedo on July 18 in collaboration with the Asturian Federation of Councils and the Council of Transparency and Good Government.

• Day held in Castellón on October 10, 2017 in collaboration with the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces and the Council of Transparency and Good Government.

• Training day in collaboration with the City of Elche, held on May 9, 2018, on Integrity and Public Procurement, within the Open Administration Week.

The objective of this initiative is that the municipalities that decide so can implement, with the greatest guarantees of confidentiality and authenticity in the vote, in a safe, agile and simple way, the procedures of citizen participation in public decision-making.
Broadcast on CANAL RED FEMP.

It is included as good RED practice.

The proposal for the constitution of a Community of Practice on Transparency and Open Government at a Global Level within the Global Network of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) was presented by the FEMP and submitted for the approval of the UCLG World Council on September 30, 2017. The UCLG World Council, meeting in session from 7 to 10 December 2017 in the city of Hangzhou (China), approved the proposal of the Community of Practice, integrating it into its organizational structure, making the issues of Transparency and Open Government a new political priority within its global strategy. The UCLG World Council also assigned to the FEMP the leadership and coordination of the Community and established as its objectives to contribute to the strengthening of the capacities of local governments in matters of open local governance and public integrity and to constitute a global exchange platform to share the work of local and regional governments in the matter. The FEMP takes advantage of this exchange space to promote and share the experiences, good practices and challenges of Spanish local entities in the related issues, as well as to generate local knowledge and information and data to support Spanish local governments in this type of practices.

It can be evaluated as the main result that the UCLG has taken as political priorities the values of open government and that it has opened a line of work to strengthen the capacities of its membership (240,000 governments and 175 associations) in the field.

Once the Community of Practices was approved by the UCLG World Council, the FEMP carried out extensive work to disseminate the proposal among potential members and partners, including in first measure local governments and networks of local governments in Spain and Latin America (Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mercocities). To expand its reach internationally, the Community established the Open Government Alliance Local Programme and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) as its main partners and formed two leading Open Local and Regional Government working groups during 2018. The first leading group has the participation of City Councils (Alcobendas, Madrid, Soria, Vigo), Deputations (Barcelona, Castellón, Gipuzkoa), international networks such as the Council of Local and Regional Powers of Europe (CPRLE) of the Council of Europe, representatives of academia (GIGAPP) and networks of cities (Metropolis) and Publitica. The second leading group of open Local and Regional Governments focused on Latin America and has the participation of Bogotá, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Quito Metropolitan District, Sao Paulo and the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities (UCCI). Other local leaders (Chefchaouen - Morocco, Dalieeh - Lebanon, London - UK, Local Government Association of Tunisia) have been identified to advance the configuration of new leading groups in other regions of the world. The leading groups established a joint work agenda and formed working groups on issues of awareness, research, good practices and exchange of experiences and has made progress in the development of knowledge products, political advocacy activities and training in open governance issues. In June 2019, the global network of the Community of Practice has as its driving members more than 30 local governments and as collaborating participants of the activities more than 250 local governments in different regions of the world. The experiences of Spanish local and regional governments have been used as a basis for the work developed.

The relevance of the actions carried out by the Community of Practice is concretized in the sensitization and extension of the values of open government to a potential universe of 240,000 local governments (members of the global network of United Cities and Local Governments – UCLG).

The network work carried out has had as objective and result the generation of local knowledge on open government, the promotion of synergies and common narratives on the values and practices of open government at the local level and the development of tools and publications that visibilize the role of the local in open government strategies, as in the case of the publication “White Paper on Transparency and Open Government: building open, transparent, responsible and inclusive cities” carried out from the Community of practice for the Urban 20 network. This process has also resulted in the Community of Practice and, as a result, the FEMP as a leader, having been convened to make the contribution from local governments for the evaluation of SDG 16 within the framework of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development that made the thematic review of this objective in July 2019.

Likewise, the work has allowed the exchange and valorisation of Spanish experiences and local initiatives of open government and of the multi-level vision and nature of the Spanish experience, where it has given way to the linking of local governments in the process of formulation, development, implementation and follow-up of the action plan (differentiating factor compared to other national action plans).

The Community of Practice on Transparency and Open Government of UCLG through the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces established the Local Program of the Alliance for Open Government as its main partner. In this sense, both organizations established a scheme of constant collaboration that has allowed the joint design of objectives, scopes, methodologies, mechanisms of dissemination and activities and of a joint agenda and a common strategy to promote the work and role of local governments in national and global agendas of open government, as well as to promote the development of local capacities and spaces of exchange in this matter.

The two organizations have actively worked on activities of political impact so that the dissemination and exchange events carried out have opened spaces for reflection on the potentialities of the local area in this type of practices and the need to establish new forms of multi-level collaboration that include local governments within the national strategies of open government (taking as an example the Spanish experience) and within the global strategy of the Alliance for Open Government and its vision on local governments.

Within this framework, as of June 2019, the following specific activities have been carried out:

• Participation of the Spanish experience of multi-level coordination and the presentation of the Community of Practice in the framework of the Regional Meeting of the Alliance for the Open Government of the Americas (Buenos Aires, November 21 and 22, 2017).

• Launch of the Community of Practice as a platform for candidate subnational governments for subnational pilots of the Alliance for Open Government.

• Participation of the Spanish experience of multi-level coordination, participation of representatives of Spanish local and regional governments and presentation of the Community of Practice in the framework of the World Summit of the Alliance for Open Government (Tbilisi – July 15 to 20 2018).

• Participation of a delegation of the Alliance for Open Government in UCLG Bureau (Strasbourg - May 2018) and in UCLG World Council (Madrid - November 2018).

• Collaboration in the campaign #Commitment Transparency 2017 and joint organization of the campaign #Commitment Transparency 2018, carried out in order to make a contribution by local governments to the International Day against Corruption (December 9).

• Organization of the Local Government Event in the framework of the Open Government Alliance World Summit in Ottawa (Canada) with the participation of 200 participants from 42 countries.

The Urban-GLASS Ibero-America project is an initiative of the FEMP and its strategic partners to strengthen the capacities of local governments in Ibero-American countries to develop and implement innovative mechanisms of transparency, accountability and participation in the fight against corruption in urban contexts, providing the necessary framework to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level. The project addresses the growing need for local governments to connect with their citizens in a renewed way with the ultimate goal of being more efficient in providing services, increasing participation in public management and rebuilding trust in the public sector at the local level.

The initiative specifically aims to strengthen the capacities of local government associations in Ibero-American countries to develop transparency and accountability strategies to tackle corruption in urban management and promote the identification, exchange and development of innovative tools to promote transparency and accountability in municipal management.

During the period of 2017-2019, different activities were carried out to map actors, assess needs, identify potential partners, donors, countries of action and lines of work, resulting in that the activities of the Urban-Glass initiative and its activities were included in the framework of the AECID-FEMP agreement that will be implemented from the second half of 2019.

From the Community of Practice led by La FEMP, spaces have been created to exchange experiences on issues of transparency and open government at the local level, promoting the participation and dissemination of experiences of Spanish local and regional governments. The meetings have generated joint learning between different Spanish and international local governments, as well as the identification of success factors and challenges for the development and implementation of local open government policies and the need to strengthen their capacities in the field. These activities have been key to enhance the recognition of the local area as a natural space and key to the development of policies and initiatives of open government based on Spanish experiences and as a learning platform, which is understood as an effective contribution to the improvement of the practices of local entities.

As of June 2019, the following activities have been carried out:

• Organization of the event "Combating corruption in cities: identifying risks and reacting in time. The role of local governments" within the framework of the Seventh Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption" (Vienna, 9 November 2017).

• Participation of the FEMP and the Community of Practice in panels "Open State Subnational" and "Experiences of Open Government at the subnational level" in the framework of the Regional Meeting of the Open Government Alliance for the Americas (Buenos Aires, November 21, 2017).

• Campaign Organization "9 to 9: Transparency Commitment 2017“had a month prior to the International Day against Corruption held on 9 December with the aim of making a contribution by local governments to highlight the role of EELLs in preventing and combating corruption and promoting transparency and open government. The campaign wanted to help promote the specific characteristics of cities as places of opportunity and engines for the achievement of SDGs 11 and 16. The campaign involved more than 30 local leaders, including representatives of local governments and national and regional local government associations from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Maghreb, Latin America and the Caribbean. The City Councils of Madrid, Móstoles and Soria participated in Spain. Videos of the campaign.

• Participation in the High-Level Panel "Innovative Governance for Open and Inclusive Cities" organized by UN-Habitat within the framework of the 9th World Urban Forum (Kuala Lumpur, 11 February 2018).

• Participation of representatives of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces in the event "Building citizen confidence through open government and transparency", organized by the Local Program of the Alliance for Open Government within the framework of the 9th World Urban Forum (Kuala Lumpur, February 10, 2018).

• Organization of the Webminar to exchange experiences at the local level on open government as a strategy for the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals in the framework of the Open Administration Week. Representatives of Madrid, FEMP and the Basque Country (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Nariño (Colombia), National Confederacao of Municipalities (Brazil), Quito (Ecuador) participated.

• Organization of the Multi-level Dialogue on Transparency and Open Government between Spain and Ecuador with the aim of generating a space for multi-level dialogue and articulation (national and local) that guarantees the participation of local governments in national open government strategies (such as the Action Plan for the Open Government Alliance). The Spanish experience was shared in relation to multi-level coordination for the formulation and implementation of the III Open Government Plan. (Quito -October 2018).

• Organization of the Exchange of Good Practices in Local Open Government event with the participation of the FEMP, Madrid, Bogotá, Quito and Buenos Aires (Quito - Otubre 2018).

• Organizes sessions of "Open Government as a strategy for the prevention of gender violence" and "Anti-corruption experiences" within the framework of the World Forum of Urban Violence (Madrid, November 2018) highlighting local Spanish initiatives and generating learning about other local initiatives in the world.

• Campaign Organization "#Transparency Commitment 2018" on the occasion of the International Day against Corruption held on 9 December. The campaign was the contribution of local governments to highlight the role of EELLs in preventing and combating corruption and promoting transparency and open government. The campaign was attended by more than 30 local and regional leaders, including representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Maghreb, Latin America and the Caribbean. The City Councils of Madrid, Soria, Vigo and the Provincial Council of Barcelona, Castellón and Gipuzkoa participated in Spain.

• Participation of representatives of the FEMP and of Spanish local and regional governments in the Congress “Etorkizuna Eraikiz: An Open Governance for the Future” organized by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (San Sebastián, February 2019). The objective of the Congress was to reflect on the new models of Governance that are being promoted from different Spanish and international public administrations and to know the experiences that have taken place in the Basque territory and also the best practices at international level. In addition to the FEMP and Spanish local governments, the Open Government Alliance and representatives from Latin America such as Santa Fe Province, CONGOPE (Consortium of Autonomous Provincial Governments of Ecuador) and Scotland participated.

The Community of Practice led by the FEMP has created learning and promotion spaces on transparency and open government at the local level, promoting the participation and dissemination of experiences of Spanish local and regional governments. This type of meeting has contributed to the promotion of the work of Spanish local governments and the Community of Practice and has generated opportunities to promote and raise awareness about the importance of local governments in policies and practices of open government and their necessary articulation within national and global agendas in the matter. One of the strong points of this commitment has been the commitment to promote open government and its values as a lever policy for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

In this context, as of June 2019, the following activities have been carried out:

• Organization of the “Workshop on Transparency and Openness Tools for Local Governments” in collaboration with GIGAPP, UN-Habitat and Transparency International (Madrid, September 2017).

• Organization of training sessions on the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals with specific sessions on open government as a lever policy for the localization of the SDGs (Madrid, October 2017 and October 2018).

• Participation in the Panel "Trust and open government in Spain: realities and expectations from the local" and presentation of the work of the FEMP in the field within the framework of the XXII International Congress of the CLAD (Madrid, November 16, 2017).

• Organization of the panel "Local governments facing the challenge of localizing the Sustainable Development Goals" within the framework of the XXII CLAD International Congress. A presentation of the work of the FEMP on the subject was made with emphasis on work done in SDG11, 16 and 17 (Madrid, 16 November 2017).

• Organization of the panel "Community of Practice on Open Local Government: Local Actions for Transparent and Sustainable Cities" within the framework of the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The panel was attended by the Mayor of Soria, the Mayor of Chefchaouen (Morocco) and a representative of the City of Madrid and representatives of international networks and agencies such as the Alliance for Open Government, UN-Habitat, Metropolis and Platform (Kuala Lumpur, February 12, 2018).

• Organization of meetings for the localization of the 2030 Agenda with specific sessions on open government as an accelerator spares the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Spain. This work resulted in the Action Plan for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Spain being included as one of its policies leveraging the Third Open Government Plan. (Madrid, March, May and October 2018).

• Organization of the panel "Community of Practice on Open Local and Regional Government" within the framework of the Executive Bureau of UCLG The panel was attended by the Mayor of Soria, the Mayor of Aranjuez, a representation of the City of Madrid, the Deputation of Gipuzkoa and the FEMP as representatives of Spain and representatives of Quito (Ecuador), Province of Santa Fe (Argentina) and representatives of AGA and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. (Strasbourg, May 23, 2018).

• Organization of the panel "Community of Practice on Open Local and Regional Government: Opportunities and Challenges in North Africa" within the framework of the 1st Forum on Intermediate Cities (Chefchaouen, July 2018), where the Spanish experience was shared.

• Organization of the Open Government panel: Transparency, accountability and participation in intermediate cities in the framework of the international event Think Europe: Commitment 2030 /Intermediate cities the key to development (Soria, January 2019) with the participation of European and Spanish local governments and members of the academy. The panel was a space for exchange and reflection on the progress of these policies at European level and the leadership role that local governments represent for their implementation and correct implementation.

• Participation in the first meeting "Open government: from commitment to action" organized by the Congress of Local and Regional Powers of the Council of Europe in collaboration with the Ukrainian Association of Cities. The line of work on transparency and open government of the FEMP and its articulation at local, national and global level was presented (Kiev, January 2019 ).

• Participation of the FEMP and representatives of the Community of Practice in the global consultation on SDG16+ “Inclusive institutions at the local level” organized as by the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Alliance for the report on Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies (Tunis, March 2019). During the event, several initiatives developed by Spanish local governments and the Spanish experience of articulation of open government policies were shared as a lever policy of the national strategy of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

• Organization of the event “Promoting compliance with the 2030 Agenda from the bottom up: open government as a strategy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level” within the framework of the Global Open Government Summit (Ottawa, May 2019).