Gergana was the initiator for the establishment of the AIP in 1996 and its passionate leader from that time on. Under her leadership the AIP has become among the most popular NGOs in Bulgaria known to 41 % of the population (in February 2010) with its permanent campaigning for access to information, around 40 opinions on FOI legislation in Bulgaria and other countries, more than 4,000 legal advices to journalists, NGOs and citizens and support of around 160 court cases. AIP played a key role for the active use of the right to know in Bulgaria measured with average 15,000 written requests yearly.

Gergana, together with Helen Darbishire and a number of enthusiastic FOI activists who gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria in September 2002 established the FOIANet and World Right to Know Day. The international networking is part of the AIP activities in the years involving also membership to the European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN), The Access Initiative (TAI), European Citizen Action Service (ECAS). Gergana was an advisory board member of the Access-Info Europe, and is an advisory board member of Privacy International, member of editorial board of Freedominfo and is among the Statewatch contributors.

She has contributed also to the development and the support to FOIANet in the years, including by the organization of international conference on FOI monitoring in 2004. She has made a lot of publications on FOI, many of which available online in English.