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Open Contracting Monthly Newsletter: May, 2013
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OPEN CONTRACTING: GAINING MOMENTUM |
| One thing is clear: Open Contracting is gaining momentum. In the past year, since the initial Design Meeting in Washington, Open… |
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Integrity Leadership for Africa Course- 29 April - 4 May, 2013
Deadline to Apply: Monday, March 25, 2013
The African Governance Report II boldly concludes that “all governance institutions are corrupt in Africa ”. This statement highlights the apparent reality that corruption remains the single most resilient challenge to developing good governance practices in…
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International Anti-Corruption Conference Global Competition: Mini-grants for Social Entrepreneurs
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You can shape the way we bring transparency to public sector contracting
Good performance of public contracts is critical for effective service delivery and achieving development outcomes. However, corruption and inefficiency permanently threaten the achievement of desired results. By introducing greater transparency and monitoring in the contracting…
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How to monitor every single contract?
I had an ‘aha moment’ the other day about the number of contracts that CSOs are supposed to monitor in a country like the Philippines.
I was meeting with Government Procurement Policy Board - Technical Support Office (GPPB-TSO) in Manila. They were showing me PhilGEPS, a single portal that serves as the primary source of information on all government procurement and publishes contracts.
Rosa Maria Clemente, Executive Director of PhilGEPS explained: “On average there are 1000*…
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What is next on the road to open contracting?
I have been spending more time in Asia lately. Currently I am in Manila. The picture is Manila Bay on a rainy day. Meeting with CSOs here that are working on open contracting (i.e. contract transparency and monitoring), made me wonder about what’s next on the road to open contracting?
The Philippines is…
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Check My School - citizen monitoring in the Philippines
“Check My School” (checkmyschool.org) is an interactive platform and a comprehensive database on the government's education services that allows parents, students and educators in the Philippines to monitor school funding and report on any issues, such as teacher absence or misuse of funds. The project was launched by the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability East Asia and the Pacific…
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Open Public Procurement Portal: Making Use of the Procurement Data
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Leveraging e-Procurement Databases for Public Procurement Research
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While Ireland is a recognised leader in the use of e-procurement across the public sector, the same cannot be…
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Using ICT to improve effectiveness, increase transparency, reduce costs and save trees
Description Petrotrin, Trinmar Operations Contracts office adopted as its 2010 to 2012 theme; Go Green! As the team leader I challenged the staff to embrace this initiatisoftwareve by coming up with innovative ideas…
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Improving Lives through Community Procurement of Pumpsets for Irrigation
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Irrigation is the anchor intervention of the World Bank financed Assam Agricultural Competitiveness Project…
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Analyzing Tendencies of Unannounced Tenders Practice
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TI Lithuania identified one sensitive method of public procurement for further analysis, namely the national…
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Acquiring medicine for the Ecuadorian public health sector just a click away!
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The health sector in Ecuador is made up of 4 major institutions that have around 2800 public health…
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Developing the Nigerian Procurement Monitoring Portal Observatory
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This is a robust web based mechanism; developed on the premise that ICTs can be effectively used to…
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Procurement Innovation Challenge Award Winners Announced!
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Call for Papers on Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives from Transparencia Mexicana's global initiative- Citizens and Markets
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Procurement Innovation Challenge Winners will be announced on April 27th
The Procurement Innovation Challenge submission period is now closed. There was a great response form people from all over the world. The Challenge received some very interesting case stories on innovations in public procurement. So far most of the case stories reflect the…
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ProAct Beats: Procurement Innovation Challenge Early Entry Award Winner Announced - March 2012
Welcome to the first edition of ProAct Beats! We listen to and capture the pulse of our community and feature the "beats" -- efforts, experiences and events -- in this monthly newsletter. …
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Procurement Innovation Challenge -- Partager vos expériences
Le World Bank Institute (WBI), en partenariat avec le UN Procurement Capacity Development Centre (UNPCDC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH avec le soutien financier du German…
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Key Resources in French and Spanish available at UNPCDC
The United Nations Procurement Capacity Development Centre has listed a series of knowledge resources on public procurement in French and Spanish that provide a wealth of information relevant to procurement capacity development.…
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- Open Contracting Monthly Newsletter: May, 2013
- Integrity Leadership for Africa Course- 29 April - 4 May, 2013
- International Anti-Corruption Conference Global Competition: Mini-grants for Social Entrepreneurs
- You can shape the way we bring transparency to public sector contracting
- How to monitor every single contract?
- What is next on the road to open contracting?
- Check My School - citizen monitoring in the Philippines
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