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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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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. Largely anchored on the UNCITRAL model law on public procurement , several countries abolished the centralized and inefficient tender boards.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

Solution: TI Ukraine created and has maintained the free BI Prozorro procurement analytics module for more than eight years, empowering all stakeholders to analyze data from Ukraine’s public procurement system. Equally important is communicating in a language that all users understand.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

Results: The number of women-led businesses registered in the official state public procurement system increased by 43% from 2021 and 2022 to a total of 158 businesses, winning a total of 47 contracts, up from a mere 7 in 2020. The team have expanded their capacity to manage these updated processes.

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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.” More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

Spending, taxation, public investment, debt management and financing policies can contribute to transform the behavior of different economic actors. The following is a summary of the main opportunities found in this new publication. Fiscal policy is a powerful tool for tackling these challenges.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. The platform was co-developed by OCP and the business community together with the government.

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