Event Details
The open government movement has created the means for revolutionizing the way that government works across the world, generating the space for active citizen participation and promoting efficiency, inclusion and accountability. Open contracting is a prime example of how this can work for one of the core functions of government: how citizens' money gets spent.
The EBRD and the Open Contracting Partnership signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to embed local civil society participation into public procurement reforms, helping to rethink the whole process of procuring goods and services and creating open, accessible, and timely data on public contracts to improve competition and monitoring and to engage citizens and businesses in identifying and fixing problems with public services.
Making the contracting process more transparent has been proven to have an impact on improving competitiveness as well as curbing corruption and strengthening trust in the process.
At this event, we team up with civil society stakeholders and government reformers to hear how the project is going. What impact are we seeing and what lessons can we learn, especially with public procurement in the spotlight as never before due to the pandemic.
The event will explore how accurate open public procurement data is a gamechanger for systemic reforms, helping to hold governments more accountable while building trust, providing a feedback loop on public procurement performance, and generating opportunities for new and data-driven digital services. We will also learn about the latest data-driven tools for monitoring and evaluating public procurement systems to compare, gauge progress, and generate ideas for further improvements.
Objectives of the event:
Dedicated sessions will bring together representatives of different stakeholder groups from across Europe and Central Asia, including open government promoters and civil society organizations, to stocktake and learn from EBRD engagements in Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine in how open contracting data and civic engagement drives better procurement reforms, keeping governments accountable and contracts efficient by constant monitoring activities, building communities & monitoring ecosystems.
