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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. The second revolution: increasing independence, data collection and participation These limitations led to a subsequent second wave of reforms.

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Using AI for green procurement

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We looked for others who had performed a similar matching, in order to compare and validate our matches, and found the matching performed by ProZorro , the central public procurement system of Ukraine, which was consistent with ours. 2018) dataset. 2015) and the Multi-Genre NLI (Williams et al.,

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How Ukraine’s procurement appeals tool Clarity App promotes fair competition

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The app’s comprehensive database of procurement appeals sources data from the Prozorro public procurement system, as well as decisions on complaints made to the Antimonopoly Committee, and investigations by the State Audit Service. For us, this is an opportunity to reasonably defend our position during appeals.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

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Some people dedicate themselves to creating new businesses but not in a good way: they create 5 or 10 businesses to participate in a procurement process,” says Pimentel. But “public procurement systems are not primarily about anti-corruption, but about guaranteeing development and public investment,” Pimentel says. “We