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.
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.”
A blog by the Open Contracting Partnership describing the implementation of open contracting in Nigeria and the role of social accountability mechanisms.
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.
As we mark World Malaria Day on April 25th, 2016, 25 million Kenyans continue to be threatened by a mosquito smaller than out fingernail. One in five Kenyans occupying our hospital beds and three in ten Kenyans visiting our health facilities are wrestling with the effects of malaria. Kenya loses 170 million working days to the disease annually.
This year’s global theme is “Ending malaria for good”. Globally, smart investments and strong partnerships between Governments, not for profit organisations and the private sector have reduced malaria mortality by 60% with 6.2 million lives saved by the year 2000. On the eve of World Malaria Day 2016, three public interest organisations namely the Society for International Development (SID), Transparency International-Kenya (TI-Kenya) and the Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDs (KELIN) can reveal that the Public Procurement Oversight Authority has violated the law and maintained a Market Prices Index with highly inflated pricing standards for medical equipment and essential medicines.