Introduction

The Kaduna Open Government Partnership (OGP) State Action Plan 2024 2025 is a two-year roadmap that renews Kaduna State’s pledge to embed transparency, accountability and citizen-centred governance across the public sector. Co-created by the Planning and Budget Commission, other executive MDAs, the State House of Assembly, oversight bodies and more than 100 civil society and community organisations, the plan aligns with the state’s SUSTAIN Agenda and its long-term Open Government Strategic Vision of “nurturing citizen engagement for inclusive, people-oriented development”.

Five priority commitments structure the Action Plan:

1. Strengthening the participatory budget process: ring fencing at least 5 % of capital spending for community-nominated projects and publishing timely budget and audit data to let citizens track delivery.
2. Scaling up Open Contracting: upgrading the state’s e-procurement platform from OCDS to the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS) and reviving the Public Procurement Board to tighten oversight.
3. Institutionalising access to information: domestication of a Freedom of Information law and enhancement of the “Eyes & Ears” feedback tools so residents can request data and lodge service delivery complaints in real time.
4. Strengthening social protection systems: operationalising a state social register, creating a social security trust fund and expanding pro-poor programmes to curb multi-dimensional poverty.
5. Improving service delivery in education and health: opening procurement and performance data for both sectors, empowering community accountability mechanisms and ensuring inclusive, gender responsive facilities and curricula.

Each commitment runs from February 2024 to December 2025 and is backed by dedicated budgets, clear milestones and joint government CSO implementation teams. Across the five areas, the plan advances the core OGP values of transparency, public participation, accountability and technology-enabled innovation while explicitly mainstreaming inclusion, particularly for women, youth, persons with disabilities and the poorest households. Together, these interventions are expected to deepen public trust, deliver better services and ensure that public resources translate into tangible improvements in the lives of Kaduna’s citizens.