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

Open Contracting Partnership

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. They measured several improvements in the public complaints handling process.

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India’s federal procurement data infrastructure

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Facilitate matching with other public datasets (e.g., CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.

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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. Participating in public contracting represents a massive opportunity for businesses, but one that many fail to seize.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

Public contracts matter, he says: “The government allocates 32% of the country’s budget towards goods, services, and public works, to secure the rights and enhance the quality of life for citizens. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.” in 2020 to 96% in 2023.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

Fortunately, progress has been made in the region and countries are in a position to develop diagnoses, tools, and institutional capacities to promote green procurement. Learn more about the IDB’s work on fiscal policy and climate change.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Fewer than 300 MSMEs participate in a procurement market worth almost US$3 billion annually.

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How to make better public procurement decisions with business intelligence: Insights from Ukraine

Open Contracting Partnership

Almost a decade after its inception, Ukraine’s Prozorro system remains at the forefront of procurement transformation and innovation. Results: More than 30,000 buyers, suppliers, and other users each year analyze Ukraine’s public procurement market daily, with a total volume of UAH 917 billion (~$24 billion) in 2023.