Key resources from Open Ownership and the UNODC: OGP Asia-Pacific 2025 Meeting
Ahead of the Open Government Partnership Asia-Pacific 2025 Regional Meeting, we are pleased to have compiled some of Open Ownership and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's resources which are ideal for those who want to learn more about beneficial ownership transparency.
Legislating for impact: Establishing beneficial ownership transparency frameworks in Asia Pacific
Side event at the 2025 Open Government Partnership Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting in Manila, Philippines. This event is co-organised by Open Ownership and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Read more about the event here.
Resources from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Reports and other publications
- Implementation of Beneficial Ownership Transparency in ASEAN Member States and Timor-Leste
- Regional Peer Exchange in Southeast Asia: Advancing Anti-Corruption Efforts through Beneficial Ownership Transparency
- Good practices and challenges with respect to beneficial ownership transparency and how it can foster and enhance the effective recovery and return of proceeds of crime
- Enhancing Beneficial Ownership Transparency: A Study of Beneficial Ownership Registration Systems
Resources from Open Ownership
Introduction: What is beneficial ownership transparency?
- What is BOT? What is beneficial ownership transparency?
- Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and beneficial ownership primer: Primer - Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Version 0.4 documentation
How do we implement it?
- What does good look like? The Open Ownership Principles: Principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure
- How do we get there? The Implementation Guide: Guide to implementing beneficial ownership transparency
- Read all our technical resources that guide high-quality implementation: Technical guidance
- Guide to drafting effective legislation for beneficial ownership transparency
- Beneficial Ownership Transparency: A Guide for Parliaments
- Guide: Legislating for effective beneficial ownership transparency reforms in the extractive sector
- Guide to doing user research for beneficial ownership systems
Why is it important? What can it do?
- Procurement: Beneficial ownership data in procurement
- Private sector: The use of beneficial ownership data by private entities
- Anti-corruption: Who benefits? How company ownership data is used to detect and prevent corruption
- National security: Using beneficial ownership data for national security
- Extractives related resources: Extractives resources; Catalysing transformative change in beneficial ownership transparency
- Energy transition: Shining a light on company ownership: The role of beneficial ownership transparency in the energy transition
- Fisheries governance: Using beneficial ownership information in fisheries governance
Where has it been implemented?
- Open Ownership map: world wide action on beneficial ownership transparency
Emerging thinking
- Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners
- Striking a balance: Towards a more nuanced conversation about access to beneficial ownership information
- Closing the loop: How beneficial ownership information is used and why it matters
- Financing for Development: Beneficial ownership transparency as a fundamental reform to drive sustainable development
- Carving pathways from transparency in beneficial ownership to climate integrity
- Solving the international information puzzle of beneficial ownership transparency
Find more emerging thinking pieces here.
Open Ownership impact reports
- Slovakia: Early impacts of public beneficial ownership registers: Slovakia
- Ukraine: Early impacts of public beneficial ownership registers: Ukraine
- United Kingdom: Early impacts of public beneficial ownership registers: United Kingdom
- Denmark: Use and impact of public beneficial ownership registers: Denmark
Get in touch
To request a consultation, please email Emily Manuel, Open Ownership Regional Manager for Asia Pacific, [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you.
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