As the UN custodian agency for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Indicator 16.10.2, UNESCO continues to report not only on progress on the adoption and the implementation of Access to Information guarantees worldwide, but also promotes efforts around the issue, including reinforcing the strong relevance of access to information to the crisis recovery and the attainment of the SDGs as a whole.

This report captures these different dimensions, presenting key findings from the 2021 UNESCO Survey on Public Access to Information, assessing progress in 102 participating countries. The report also provides policy makers, civil society, academia and those interested in SDG issues with different case studies and good practices with a special focus on rebuilding communities and public institutions with access to information.