2023-11-23 23:18:42
In Senegal, the project relating to “women’s access to public procurement” from the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (ARCOP) was selected by the partner Open Contracting Partnership to be among the ten global proposals chosen, out of more than 100 applications around the world, to benefit from the technical and financial support of the Lift impact acceleration program. The objective of the project is to design reforms and implement innovative strategies to establish better collaboration in public procurement with a view to ensuring equitable inclusion of women. It is also about improving the use of open data to manage, monitor and advance access to public services and acquisitions.
Ten projects from Brazil, Chile, Lithuania, the Philippines, Senegal, Thailand, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States have been selected to create just, inclusive and greener communities by advancing public procurement reforms as part of the Open Contracting Partnership’s impact accelerator program, the Lift programme.
Every year, world governments spend $13 trillion on public procurement. Public procurement is essential to providing public education, transportation, health care and fighting climate change. Yet failing public procurement systems have exacerbated inequalities and corruption.
The Lift Impact Accelerator helps government and civil society teams deliver transformational change building stronger communities for millions of people by reforming public procurement through better data, open processes and participatory, and technical and financial assistance.
“We are proud to work with front-line visionaries who want to use public procurement as a lever to achieve broader social impact goals,” says Kathrin Frauscher, deputy executive director of the Open Contracting Partnership.
This year’s ten teams were selected from more than 150 proposals from 70 countries, an increase of 50% from the last round of applications. The program will begin with a workshop in September 2024. Each team receives up to $35,000 in financial support and 200 hours of personalized technical assistance on change management, inclusion, open procurement strategies, and more Again.
Over the next 18 months, the Open Contracting Partnership will support selected teams in opening and improving their public procurement systems and strengthening their capacity to achieve their objectives.
“The solutions and approaches developed by these reform teams will serve as inspiration and provide practical guidance that will enable others to scale innovative and effective public procurement practices,” says Kaye Sklar, senior manager of the OCP Lift program.
Previous Lift teams have used open procurement to address challenges such as government transparency and accountability, medicine affordability, and disaster relief management. They have achieved remarkable results in Asian countries and in some American states.
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