Have you experienced any obstacles in your work trying to improve open contracting, what were they and how were you able to overcome them?
USAID has been working on anti-corruption issues for more than 20 years. CSIS published a paper in April of 2020 suggesting that given the Great Power Competition, the United States needs to “get back at the front of the anti-corruption parade” and lead on these issues. Globally corruption is a vote-moving issue. There are enormous…
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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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
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.
Covid-19 has created conditions in which corruption in health procurement can flourish. Open contracting would bring this notoriously opaque process into the light.
TI HI’s blog (originally published on Devex) outlines the links between Covid-19 and procurement corruption and highlights the importance of implementing open contracting to counteract these corruption risks.
Open Contracting for Health (OC4H) is a DFID-funded project which seeks to improve the transparency and accountability of public procurement in the health sector. By ensuring that the procurement of things like medical supplies and the building of health centres is conducted openly and transparently, it greatly reduces the chance of a situation like that in Aromo repeating.
In Lira County, Uganda, Transparency International Uganda has worked with and trained individuals representing three key stakeholder groups:
TI-HI’s report “Making the Case for Open Contracting in Healthcare Procurement” examines the utility of open contracting in healthcare procurement. The process relies on governments to disclose procurement information to businesses and civil society improves stakeholders’ understanding of procurement processes increasing the integrity, fairness and efficiency of public contracting.
In several countries, including Honduras, Ukraine and Nigeria, corruption was significantly reduced throughout the healthcare procurement process following the implementation of open contracting, according to the report.
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