This workshop will develop commitments to civic participation for the UK's 2016-18 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan.  Issues under consideration will include:

• Budget participation
• Consultation
• Localism
• Open policy making
• Public engagement
• Social action

As a member of the Open Government Partnership, every two years the UK government in collaboration with civil society must develop an open government national action plan, setting out specific, measurable and time bound commitments to open government reforms. Progress against these commitments will be reviewed by civil society and the Independent Reporting Mechanism of the OGP.

The UK's third National Action Plan is due for publication in June 2016, and is being collaboratively developed between government and civil society. This workshop will feed directly into the development of civic participation commitments for the action plan.