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The ESG Imperative: Balancing the Attainable With the Aspirational

Art of Procurement

“I think a large part of the ESG model is about bringing each other up together – capacity building –. The post The ESG Imperative: Balancing the Attainable With the Aspirational appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Unveiling the Truth: How Sticking to Fiscal Rules Boosts Investment in Latin America

Inter-American Development Bank

This change in perspective is especially crucial now, as many LAC countries are undergoing fiscal consolidation to balance their budgets and reduce debt levels while facing increasing pressure from their populations to tackle key development challenges. Calibrate escape clauses to accommodate economic shocks.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Smart Public Procurement Can Contribute to Marofiscal Stability Smart public procurement spending can be a critical area for improving fiscal balances because it can improve the effectiveness of public expenditure by reducing waste. Better fiscal balances will contribute to greater macroeconomic stability.

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Australian Arbitration Week Recap: International Arbitration in the Pacific—Reform and Capacity Building

Kluwer Arbitration

This discussion underscored the critical need for ongoing reform and capacity building, while also highlighting the importance of cultural sensitivity and local engagement. She noted that capacity building is a major challenge, and the Tongan government is open to seeing how it can further develop its expertise.

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Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Procurement

The Procurement School

The efficiencies can reduce office space, reduce hiring, reduce on-going training, reduce investment in technology and continuous upgrades, and increase workload capacity. This becomes very efficient and immediately impacts the bottom line in savings. There can be a cost to this apparent efficiency.

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ASTERRA helps build a more sustainable Earth by identifying and mitigating ‘lost water’ using AWS

AWS Public Sector

Overcoming compute capacity constraints and unlocking innovation ASTERRA stores large amounts of data, predominantly satellite imagery, in a secure, cost-optimized and durable way using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). “Our collaboration with AWS lets us access new levels of scalability, efficiency, agility, and performance.

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Web filtering for education using AWS Network Firewall

AWS Public Sector

Replace the NAT Gateway route with a Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint using the Firewall endpoint ID for Availability Zone 1. Client subnet route table showing the selection of the Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint and endpoint ID to replace the NAT Gateway route. client-subnet-route-table-az1 Destination Target 10.100.0.0/16