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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7 In the second case, the road to be repaired had only been built in 2016 and was still in good condition. billion). “We

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Manufacturers Must Seek Better Supply Chain Visibility

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There are two initiatives that we believe manufacturers should elevate to the top of the priority list for their company: tracing the upstream supply chain and supplier capacity management. Visibility into supplier capacity. This initiative, a subset of the one above, is one of the hottest areas of interest for manufacturers in 2016.

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Small States and Climate Change

Kluwer Arbitration

She examined in what manner small states have been (i) accessing courts to get them to address climate change in international law; (ii) shaping the legal landscape and the law in so doing; and (iii) considering international law’s capacity to provide actual legal remedies.

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What we’re getting wrong about accountability and citizen empowerment

Open Contracting Partnership

For the people that need to be heard the most, it’s not even about the digital divide, it’s about their capacity to contribute. In 2016, we developed the official app for the Healthcare Ministry. The first point we should remember is that we cannot romanticize citizen participation.

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DOE Considers Using the Defense Production Act to Increase Output and Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies

The Contractor's Perspective

Under the DPA declaration of policy, Congress has found that it is in the interest of national defense preparedness that governmental assurance exists for a certain capacity level to produce and provide renewable energy sources. A total of $135 million was transferred between FY2014-2016. 4502(a)(6).

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Interview with Our Editors: Nigeria and Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre in the Spotlight with Abimbola Akeredolu SAN

Kluwer Arbitration

The LACIAC Board of Directors, through its technical committees, strives to build capacity in different sectors including energy, construction, finance and technology, international trade, telecoms, media and entertainment, MSMEs, among others.

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Revisiting the Indus Waters Treaty: PCA Reasserts Competence

Kluwer Arbitration

The 2013 Kishenganga Award allowed India to continue its projects on the Kishenganga but prohibited India from using drawdown flushing to disperse sedimentation if it led to water levels in the dam fall below the dead storage capacity. India characterised the arbitration proceedings as “ illegally constructed.”