Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This post was first published on Water Integrity Network’s blog. The latest Water Integrity Global Outlook highlights how the global water and sanitation sectors are notoriously opaque and vulnerable to corruption. Yet, the report highlights that “Procurement is the site of the greatest corruption in public expenditure.”

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Written by Isabelle Adam and published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. In a previous blog , we explored some common problems data scientists encounter when collecting and analyzing data.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Giuseppe Busia, President of Italy’s National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) highlighted digitalization as a key element to prevent corruption and improve efficiency in public procurement and provided concrete examples of how ANAC collaborates with civil society to pursue data-driven approaches to anti-corruption.

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DemandStar

MARCH 1, 2022

By adhering to guidelines, they can ensure that their department is free from ill-advised spending, corruption, and fraud. Lack of standardization There is security and transparency in a standardized procurement process. Following compliance guidelines is an important part of what a procurement agent does.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is the fifth consecutive year that we, either together or separately, have reported on trends at the intersection of human rights and international investment arbitration from the prior year (see prior Blog coverage, here , here , here , and here ).

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Import and Trade Remedies

JANUARY 22, 2025

The aim of the Market Watch Unit is described by the Government to protect Canadian industry from unfair trade practices and to ensure greater transparency and market predictability. The post 2025 Canadian Trade Outlook: Trade Remedies appeared first on Import and Trade Remedies Blog. Depending on the tariffs imposed by the U.S.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 21, 2023

This blog is based on a speech delivered by Open Contracting Champion, David Riveros García, at the World Bank’s inaugural GovTech Global Forum focused on “Governance in the Digital Era” this May. I work in anti-corruption, leading an organization that focuses on the education sector in Paraguay.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 22, 2024

Moreover, the “black box” problem presents a major obstacle to having AI serve as an arbitrator because of its supposed incompatibility with the current legal framework for international arbitration and due to the perception that the lack of transparency can undermine trust in AI-generated decisions. What Is the “Black Box” Problem?

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ivalua

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This blog post shares key takeaways from the webinar, including research findings and a checklist you can follow to help you to leverage CSR to drive revenue, while making a positive impact for society. To fix the problem, Boohoo increased CSR transparency and ended contracts with 64 non-compliant suppliers.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 10, 2024

The goal is to ensure transparency in class arbitration proceedings involving stock market investors, corporations, officers, and major stakeholders (“Securities Disputes”), seeking to further protect the investors’ interests. 2.925/2023 (“ Bill ”) is intended to amend federal law no. 27-H in the Law no.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 14, 2024

This blog post summarizes the main arguments discussed by the speakers. Arbitration has several features that suit the resolution of climate change disputes: neutral forum, arbitrators with specialist expertise, procedural flexibility, confidentiality (though in tension with transparency), and ease of enforcement.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The panel considered there to be benefits in sport-specific issues, including transgender participation in sport, safe-guarding and governance issues, being arbitrated by expert sports tribunals, but noted the importance of developing transparent precedent in this area given the public importance.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 19, 2024

Finally, the Rana Plaza disaster tragically highlighted corporations’ limited control over regulatory enforcement failures, inadequate labour laws, and local governmental corruption.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 7, 2024

While containing what may at first appear to be limited changes, the 2024 IBA Guidelines are significant because, among other things, they place a particular emphasis on the need for a concerted effort to ensure that the arbitration proceedings are conducted transparently, impartially and independently.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 18, 2024

In this blog we will discuss some of the main findings of the event, including the policy tradeoffs governments in Latin America and the Caribbean need to consider as they adapt their tax systems to this new reality. Fostering political stability, transparency, security, and a stable legal and regulatory environment.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 28, 2024

This blog post highlights the past year’s most notable events impacting international arbitration practitioners in the Golden State. Earlier this year, Giorgio Sassine, Co-Lead of the 2023 CIAW Joint Planning Committee, was interviewed by Kluwer Arbitration Blog about the event (more coverage of CIAW available here ). 22–381 (U.S.

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Procurement rules and policies seek to ensure that contract awards are free from corruption, conflicts of interest or anticompetitive practices, and that these vast sums of public funds generate value for money and support social, environmental, and innovative practices. This blog post provides a summary of the main findings so far.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Nevertheless, a growing number of arbitrations revolve around matters like environmental permits, green incentives, the need for a “social license,” and corruption. At least not explicitly. Investment tribunals have consistently adopted this approach, even without explicit provisions to that effect.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Robust data protection measures, transparency, adherence to local, national, and international laws, and a mechanism for challenging outcomes are needed (see e.g., the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act ). On balance, emotion AI should be embraced, albeit within responsible and ethical boundaries.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

A solution that was consistently raised as key to making arbitration more welcoming to human subjectivities was to make it more transparent and predictable. This concludes Kluwer Arbitration Blog ’s coverage of ICCA Hong Kong 2024. See the remainder of our coverage here.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 9, 2024

published on this blog). Therefore it must use that power in accordance with substantive criteria which are transparent, clear, and precise, and published in readily accessible form (para. 131), and applied in a non-discriminatory fashion, and sanctions must be objective and proportionate (para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 22, 2024

This blog post examines how two tribunals have recently interpreted differently an FET clause containing an explicit reference to the MST. The majority adopted a broad interpretation: “transparency, stability and the protection of the investor’s legitimate expectations play a central role in defining the FET standard” (para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

The institution has updated its rules to better address corporate disputes and emphasizes transparency and diversity, with 40% of its arbitrators being female. Celebrating its 45th anniversary, CAM-CCBC handled 138 new cases in 2023, with an average dispute amount of 17 million GBP.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 11, 2024

SMART” stands for safe, mobile internet and mass data, artificial intelligence, revolutionary, and transparency. Anlin Ye is a member of Young California Arbitration ( Young CalArb ), who assisted in the preparation of this blog post. and its largest trading partner. Young CalArb is sponsored by California Arbitration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 21, 2024

Set to enter into force in 2025 or 2026, the Act will seek to ensure that AI systems used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly. The European Parliament made further advances in 2023 with its AI Act.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This environment, according to Al Tamimi, should be characterised by efficient procedures, transparent processes, and robust legal frameworks. Al Tamimi also highlighted the need for continued collaboration between legal professionals, institutions, and governments to create a more arbitration-friendly environment in Kuwait.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Welcome to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Mrs. Akeredolu! The LACIAC Adjudication Rules were established to provide a quick, fair and transparent process for the interim resolution of disputes in projects of significant duration such as construction contracts. The Adjudication Rules were a vital part of the Centre’s 2021 “ROAD” Map.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2024

For the seventh year, the Blog is providing live coverage of Hong Kong Arbitration Week. This interview is part of Kluwer Arbitration Blog’s “Interviews with Our Editors” series. Joanne brings to HKIAC a wealth of expertise from her experience as counsel, advocate and arbitrator. We are privileged to interview Joanne.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Kluwer Arbitration Blog is privileged to interview Judith to kick off our coverage of Australian Arbitration Week (“AAW”) for the fifth year running. This interview is part of Kluwer Arbitration Blog’s “Interviews with Our Editors” series. First of all, c ongratulations on your appointment as ACICA President.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

Gabor Damjanovic , Jens-Hendrik Janzen , Nadja Al Kanawati and Jan Dobrý debated some of the more controversial provisions introduced in the updated IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest (see previous coverage of the Blog here ).

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mr Martin, it is an honour to have you with us on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog! However, most arbitral institutions are moving towards greater transparency in the publication of awards, subject of course to the protection of party confidentiality, which is an essential feature of arbitration. Past interviews are available here.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. Finally, the Anti-Corruption Agency is proactively supporting the development of civic monitoring and has agreed to cooperate with the civil society coalition to monitor procurement.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

As an introduction to the subsequent regulated markets discussed in the panel, Richard Power touched upon the current investment arbitration scenario involving parties of the EU, providing an overview of landmark cases such as Slovak Republic v Achmea and Republic of Moldova v Komstroy (see previous coverage on the Blog here ).

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 19, 2025

In this blog post, well explore the significance of the Berman ruling and its impact on both local disputes and the broader landscape of international arbitration. In contrast, California courts have taken a more consumer-friendly approach, prioritizing fairness and transparency in arbitration agreements. Concepcion 563 U.S.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 7, 2025

Significant Advancements in Dispute Resolution Frameworks Southeast Asian countries launched modernised arbitration laws and innovative court projects, reflecting the region’s efforts to enhance arbitration accessibility, transparency, and efficiency.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 9, 2025

This blog post analyses the key changes and their potential impact on arbitration in Qatar further to the previous bog post. QICCA has introduced a cost calculator to simplify fee application, offering transparency and ease for parties and legal representatives.

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