(Em)powered by OCDS data: Civil Society Data-Driven Procurement Monitoring

The presentations by the speakers are now available.

The movement for Open Government has created the means to revolutionize the way governments work, generating the space for active citizen participation and driving efficiencies in governments. Open Contracting is a prime example of the transformative nature that opens up governments by creating a single and trustworthy source of accessible information on public contracts to serve government, business and citizens.

​The EBRD and the Open Contracting Partnership work together to:

• advocate for public procurement reforms to create open, transparent, and competitive public procurement regulatory frameworks that deliver value for money in the use of public funds;
• engage with civil society in public procurement reforms and support the use of open data;
• integrate an open contracting approach in public procurement reform strategies and design;
• support governments in the implementation of the Open Contracting Data Standard.

At this event we will team up with civil society stakeholders to discuss opportunities to improve public procurement and public services using open government tools available to open up public procurement to business and local communities.

The workshop will demonstrate how accurate public procurement data, collected at source, empowers citizens and helps holding governments more accountable while building trust, providing a feedback loop on public procurement performance and generating opportunities for new and data-driven digital services.

In particular, sessions will deal with the use of data-driven tools for monitoring and evaluating public procurement systems, in order to compare, gauge the progress, and generate ideas for further improvements.

The event will be lead in English.