Have you experienced any obstacles in your work trying to improve open contracting, what were they and how were you able to overcome them?
A joint webinar hosted by the Open Contracting Partnership and ACCA The COVID-19 pandemic has brought public procurement to the foreground of public scrutiny as governments around the world were forced to procure at speed and often without many of the necessary safeguards. Procuring at speed and under immense pressure can result in large-scale public…
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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.”
ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific
Asian-Pacific countries have made significant efforts to address weaknesses in their procurement frameworks and practices. To support these efforts and to assist the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative’s 28 member countries in strengthening their public-procurement mechanisms, the Initiative conducted a Regional Seminar on Fighting Bribery in Public Procurement in November 2007. This volume compiles the experience that experts from Asian and Pacific countries – as well as beyond the region – shared during the seminar. It is addressed to policy makers and experts who wish to learn from other countries’ experiences in strengthening frameworks to protect public procurement from bribery and corruption risks.
The World Bank has developed a set of procurement indicators that can be used to monitor the implementation of electronic government procurement, or e-GP.
This document describes these WB indicators, and for each indicator identifies:
» what it attempts to measure
» the formula used to calculate its value, where possible
» what constitutes a “good” value for the indicator
The World Health Organization 2018 global health financing report presents health spending data for all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2016 based on the SHA 2011 methodology. It shows a transformation trajectory for the global spending on health, with increasing domestic public funding and declining external financing. This report also presents, for the first time, spending on primary health care and specific diseases and looks closely at the relationship between spending and service coverage.
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.
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Senior Project Officer at Transparency International Health Initiative. Primarily focused on TIHI's Open Contracting for Health project, which seeks to improve health outcomes in partner countries and increase public trust in health services through increased transparency in the health procurement cycle. Also working on the ‘Improving COVID19 procurement to increase equitable access to medicines and medical equipment’ which seeks to improve transparency in emergency, specifically COVID-19 related, procurement processes. Have experience in social accountability focused, capacity building and transparency projects.