Are there any particular advocacy strategies that have worked better than others? What did they involve, what impact did they create and why do you think they were effective?
Resources to support advocacy and awareness raising activities on the importance of addressing procurement corruption and highlighting the utility of open contracting.
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In 2015, Montreal took two significant steps towards greater transparency: it opened up a large portion of its contractual data and launched Vue sur les contrats, a visualization tool that allows users to dive deep into this information. This initiative demonstrated the the benefits of standardizing data, but it also highlighted the challenges associated with data quality and design choices that are inherent to such projects.
Reports presented by members of the Lawyers Council from 14 countries who have surveyed the landscape in each of their own countries and provided summaries of exceptional legal measures for crisis response, the conduct of procurement processes under such exceptions, and resultant corruption risks and actions to minimize such risks, including in respect of transparency obligations. This section also includes information as to initiatives developed by civil society organizations and other sectors to monitor government actions related to the pandemic, as well as public information about investigations of corruption into governmental actions related to the pandemic. Finally, the Lawyers Council presents a set of recommendations calling on the legal community to support anti-corruption efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and recommendations for a critical policy focus on transparency and access to information, integrity and transparency in procurement practices, and citizen watchdogs and whistleblowers.
The primary claim of this Note is that restructuring existing political frameworks can combat procurement corruption on the local level. Specifically, this Note posits that legislative involvement in the procurement process — coupled with the addition of an independent, procurement policy board, charged with developing and reforming local procurement practices — would provide significant benefits to local procurement practices.
Blog by Development Bank of Latin America outlining the surge of corruption during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of open data and analytics in addressing this corruption.
Blog by HIVOS outlining the importance of transparent procurement in Indonesia’s COVID-19 response.
Blog by OCP, HIVOS and UNDP from November 2018 providing an short overview or open contracting initiatives across Asia and the Pacific.
“From Australia to Thailand, more countries are committing to open up their public contracting and procurement processes. Some reformers are still very new to the concept and building their knowledge, others have started to move ahead. We see a lot of promise for progress and concrete plans.”
This report documents examples of the benefits of contract transparency: a 50 percent increase in
competition for government tenders in Slovakia, reduced variation and lower average prices in hospital supplies in Latin America, lower costs for social housing in France, the exposure of significant political party funding by sole-source contract winners in Georgia, and civil-society monitoring of a social development fund by a mining company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Successfully fighting corruption requires widespread public engagement and pressure. But effective engagement doesn’t just happen; it is a creative and constructive process that involves planning strategic activities to inspire people to confront corruption as a major social, economic and political offence and a violation of human rights.
This Transparency International (TI) advocacy guide seeks to assist TI’s National Chapters and other civil society organisations through this process of:
1. Analysing problems, finding solutions and identifying stakeholders;
2. Defining the objectives and other building blocks of an advocacy plan;
3. Assessing risks and reviewing feasibility and sustainability;
4. Planning activities and linking them with resources; and
5. Checking how successful the advocacy plan has been.
This press statement is to call upon government and other public agencies to ensure that they conduct procurement of essential medical commodities and equipment in a more Transparent and accountable manner.
TI-UGANDA CALLS FOR INCREASED TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE PROCUREMENT OF “ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES” DURING THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID 19 IN UGANDA
South Africans have witnessed in recent months of the Covid-19 pandemic how our procurement policies and laws can create opportunity for corrupt people, including government officials, to steal from the state’s purse.
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