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Digging out data to shine a light on public buying in Mongolia

Open Contracting Partnership

Resolving challenges Mongolia puts a lot of effort into disclosing information in databases on public procurement, beneficial ownership, and declarations by public officials about their assets and income, but the data quality is low and not interconnected. A capacity-building curriculum is vital too.

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Economy and finance ministries in the face of climate change: 7 advancements in the green fiscal agenda

Inter-American Development Bank

There is no turning back now, the ministries of economy and finance are at the heart of climate action. What are finance ministries doing and discussing to advance green fiscal management? 4- Sustainable taxonomies are essential for access to timely and quality information.

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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 This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. C as possible.

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

Inter-American Development Bank

Smart public procurement refers to making optimal decisions to minimize waste and enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of public spending when purchasing and contracting goods, works and services. Better contracts and processes, for example, could reduce the risk of delays, quality problems or unexpected costs.

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Our 2030 vision: Better procurement for people and planet

Open Contracting Partnership

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. This is all the more urgent when we consider the huge scale up that we need in green financing to achieve our net zero goals.

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Fine-tuning an LLM using QLoRA in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Public Sector

A pre-trained general-use language model may not be properly equipped to handle domain-specific terminology (for example, in the fields of medicine, legal, and finance). The parameter ‘r’ specifies the size (that is, learning capacity) of each adapter, and ‘alpha’ defines the scaling factor of the adapter weights. the initial weights.

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Procurement strategies shifting to restore growth post-COVID-19, reveals Ivalua research

ivalua

8 April, Redwood City, CA – Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions , has announced the latest findings of a worldwide study of supply chain, procurement and finance business leaders on restoring growth. Inaccurate data leads to inventory management challenges.