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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 article discusses corruption in the South African health sector. The researchers used a combination of research methods and triangulated data from three sources: Auditor-General of South Africa reports for each province covering a 9-year period; 13 semi-structured interviews with health sector key informants and a content analysis of print media reports covering a 3-year period.
How can governments and the private sector apply digital technologies to enhance transparency and integrity? This report looks at examples of digital solutions that contribute to better governance in African countries.
Two fields of applications are the focus of this report: public procurement, company registries and payments. In these areas, technological innovation can be applied to empower citizens, build trust in the integrity of processes, cut red tape and reduce corruption risks.
The report examines two country case studies in more detail: first, it looks at Kenya, which introduced electronic procurement in 2014 and is seen as a global innovation leader in mobile payments. Second, the report covers Ghana, where the Alliance for Integrity has promoted a business-driven, multi-stakeholder approach seeking to improve transparency and integrity in the economic system, and where the government has committed to open up public contracting.
The findings of this report are based on desk research and 18 interviews conducted with representatives of the private sector, government bodies, donors, think tanks and civil society activists in Nairobi and Accra in November 2017
This report examines the current state of the data ecosystem in Africa, its desired end state, and the gaps in between. It also provides recommendations on how to bridge these gaps. It maps the current data ecosystem in Africa in terms of purpose, actors, principles and protocols; legal, legislative and policy frameworks; technological infrastructure, tools and platforms; and the dynamic interactions between purposes, actors, frameworks, technologies and systems.
A blog by the Open Contracting Partnership describing the implementation of open contracting in Nigeria and the role of social accountability mechanisms.
Examples of national pharmaceutical procurement and supply chain institutions were identified through rapid search and input from experts. Institutions identified were largely from Africa. Up-to-date details of the governance of these institutions was not easy to find within the scope of this work. The resources in the annotated bibliography of this report include grey literature and media articles to give some information where strong evidence in this area is lacking. This overview highlights some of the findings on institutions from different countries.
The purpose of this report by Development Gateway is to support scoping studies on open contracting in West Africa and to identify potential British interests and priorities in the region. The goal for this project was to gauge the state of openness of public procurement processes in five West African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Liberia and Guinea) and to identify opportunities for procurement reform and the adoption of Open Contracting Principles.
This paper looks specifically at international (and especially British) company interests in these five markets. They analysed third party surveys and indices of the corruption environment, especially around public procurement, and have conducted our own interviews of 17 companies with a long-term commitment to, and knowledge of, these markets.
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.
Believing that user-centered design was critical to do this well, Wikimedia partnered with Reboot, and together we researched the information and internet needs, habits, and constraints of users in priority countries. Side by-side, Reboot and Wikimedia staff conducted in-depth design research with over 100 diverse users in India and Nigeria. Based on the findings, they identified opportunities for Wikipedia to grow its reach and impact, including through new features, strategies, and partnerships—and through
harnessing the passion and energy of its global community.
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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.