BLOGS
Greening public investments in Africa - Where can finance ministries start?
Submitted by : Onur Erdem, Claire Davanne, World Bank
Between 2013 and 2017, the average annual funding for infrastructure development in Africa was $77 billion—double the annual average in the first six years of this century. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic growth threatens this...
Mainstreaming gender in public procurement
Submitted by : Nora Elizabeth Mc Gann, Nazaneen Ismail Ali, World Bank
Gender responsive procurement is a powerful tool to boost women's economic empowerment, promote gender equality, and build more equitable societies . This broad approach to the gender/procurement nexus looks at "value beyond savings" and includes interventions such as facilitating women-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in public...
How to manage governance and institutional risks related to COVID-19 vaccination
Submitted by : Jim Anderson, Srinivas Gurazada, World Bank
COVID-19 vaccines are scientific and technological marvels, but their distribution brings many institutional challenges. At nearly every stage, the public and private sectors, and how they work together, are being put to the...
New Global Anticorruption and Transparency Platform (ProACT) empowers stakeholders to use data to have an impact on integrity in public procurement
Submitted by : Alexandra Habershon, Kristina Aquino, Thomas de Vries, Mihály Fazekas, World Bank
The World Bank, in partnership with the Government Transparency Institute, has developed a new Procurement, Anticorruption, and Transparency platform (ProACT) to help users identify these risks, and to support efforts to understand how and where the risks are adding to the costs of public procurement and undermining...
How framework agreements are useful for emergency and pandemic response
Submitted by : Shanker Lal, World Bank
The phase that follows an emergency situation is critical when government agencies are under pressure to respond quickly and effectively to people’s needs. This includes procurement and supply of various essential items while ensuring that quick responses do not increase risks beyond what policymakers have defined as...
A new tool to track how countries use exclusion to promote integrity and achieve best value
Submitted by : Collin David Swan, Nikolaos Doukellis, Caroline Nagel Wachtell & Riya Kaustubh Gavaskar, World Bank
Exclusion is a tool commonly available to governments to protect their procurement systems from fraudulent or corrupt suppliers and reduce performance risk. But despite the prevalence of this mechanism – which has many labels, including “debarment,” “disqualification,” “suspension,” and “blacklisting” – little research has been...
Tackling the public sector wage bill in the GCC
Submitted by : Ismail Radwan & Izzah Akram Malik, World Bank
Countries in the MENA region and especially those in the Gulf have long run large public sectors. As part of the social contract, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) governments have provided free health care, education, social security benefits, and subsidized housing and utilities to their...
GeM the way forward towards developing India's marketplace.
Submitted by : Dr Gurbandini Kaur, Associate Professor, AIMA
GeM portal the e-procurement platform by Government of India launched in August 2016, for online procurement of goods and services by central and state government...