The Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) promotes effective democratic government in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. LGI focuses on supporting local government and public administration reform and decentralization; improving the administration of public services; assisting in the formulation of public policy; and developing a comprehensive regional policy center.

Direct technical assistance to policymakers by LGI is provided through expert database networks that list hundreds of English- and Russian-speaking specialists. In cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), LGI provides technical assistance on designing decentralization reform strategies in Central Asia and has contributed to the redesign of local government legislation in Macedonia and Croatia.

The Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative maintains its own separate website at http://www.osi.hu/lgi.