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

Open Contracting Partnership

Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities.

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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

The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. In particular, outdated regulations and a lack of capacity in purchasing agencies using the platform held back further progress. Efficiency is key.

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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. This allows data and documents at all stages of the contracting cycle to be disclosed according to a common data model.

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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

The public procurement agency improved access to information about upcoming opportunities for women-led and small businesses and conducted training to improve their capacity to respond. The team have expanded their capacity to manage these updated processes.

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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. to as little as 1.8%, depending on the calculation method and source data.

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Vendors as partners: How Paraguay’s VIGIA provides a community to increase competitiveness and opportunity for SMEs

Open Contracting Partnership

But when it comes to public procurement, they represent less than 5% of vendors participating in the system in the last 3 years, according to official data. Its power lies in its community of expert users and volunteers, who are building the capacity of entrepreneurs to participate in the procurement market.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C However, green public financial management (PFM) practices are still incipient in most countries in the region. C as possible.

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