Impact Stories

More than 50 countries and cities, from Argentina to Zambia, are pursuing open contracting reforms. It takes hard work, political will, technical skills, and sustained engagement.

Here we tell stories from around the world that show how open contracting is changing lives — from value for money to value for many. Better access to affordable medicines, healthier school lunches, and improving competition are just some of the results we are seeing. Even during the pandemic we have seen that buying fast and transparent is possible.

Get a backroom view on the people who made these changes happen – government officials, civic technologists, businesspeople, journalists, and citizens – and how open contracting data is driving reforms.

Impact Stories

Patients, experts, and openness: A powerful combination therapy for unaffordable medicines in Moldova

Diagnosis open: how open contracting is bringing down the cost of medicines in Chile

From open data to joined-up government: driving efficiency with BA Obras

Fight for life: how Ukraine is fixing medical procurement and serving patients better

Patients, experts, and openness: A powerful combination therapy for unaffordable medicines in Moldova

Diagnosis open: how open contracting is bringing down the cost of medicines in Chile

From open data to joined-up government: driving efficiency with BA Obras

Fight for life: how Ukraine is fixing medical procurement and serving patients better

Story Types

Countries

Partners in crime prevention: How civil society and government worked together to open up public contracts in Indonesia

Using data analysis to spot gaps in access to maternal and child health services

Living with HIV: when life depends on public procurement

No filter on public spending: How a Kazakhstani journalist got 80,000 Instagrammers interested in procurement

Australian Bidhive’s winning approach to bid management

Analyzing unit prices in public procurement in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Peddling openness: Mexico City’s journey to procure a better bike share system

Setting up for success: Data and public oversight for more transparent public procurement in Kosovo

Patients, experts, and openness: A powerful combination therapy for unaffordable medicines in Moldova

Diagnosis open: how open contracting is bringing down the cost of medicines in Chile

From open data to joined-up government: driving efficiency with BA Obras

Fight for life: how Ukraine is fixing medical procurement and serving patients better

Makueni: the small county leading action on open procurement in Kenya

Buy open, buy fast

Armed with open data: How Ukraine saved billions on defence procurement

Public works watchers: Making Nuevo Léon’s infrastructure projects more transparent and more competitive

Calling for accountability: how Paraguay’s open emergency procurement can help restore public trust

Opentender.net, the site helping Indonesians spot shady government spending

Tanzania: Zabuni app shaking up procurement landscape

How COVID-19 and collective intelligence transformed procurement risks into opportunities for transparency in Ecuador

Dhangadhi, Nepal: An open secret to building local infrastructure on time and budget

Open for business: Colombia’s data-driven procurement reforms increase competition

AppaltiPOP: Accountability for Italy’s public contracts

Tracking COVID-19 procurement in Kazakhstan: from red flags to cancellations

Watchdog journalism in Guatemala: the results of Plaza Pública’s fiscal monitoring

How emergency COVID-19 spending rallied open data activists in Nigeria to push for reforms

Government’s first online store driven by open data: How Ukraine’s ProZorro.Sale is turning bankrupt assets into gold

What can be learned about political advertising from contracting data?

Women win one in four contracts in the Dominican Republic thanks to inclusive procurement reforms

Building a campaign for COVID monitoring in Moldova in 60 days

Kyrgyz Republic: How open contracting can support small business

Making participation and use of open contracting data sustainable

Setting the sustainability standard for India’s healthcare procurement

FUNES, the corruption-detecting algorithm that ‘never forgets’

How data-savvy journalists in Kyrgyzstan are using open contracting to investigate corruption in public procurement

Better together: How Ugandans are improving procurement with data and dialogue

Opening up Moldova’s contracts. Progress and challenges

A little data goes a long way: How bidder analysis could boost competition in Colombia’s infrastructure contracts

All Mexico’s public contracts on one platform run by civil society

Bedrock for better public infrastructure in Honduras

How do you build a network of citizen corruption fighters?

Who wins the contracts: How Chile’s Observatorio de Compras is using open data to scrutinize competition in procurement

Mexico’s INAI launches new open-source tool to upload and visualize open contracting data

Open data and collective action: How student activists help neglected schools in Paraguay

How journalists in Bulgaria are using data to investigate abuse of EU funds in procurement

Using open contracting data to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of flood management in Taiwan

The deals behind the meals

Paraguay’s transparency alchemists

Open it to fix it

Using open data to boost business opportunities for women in Albania

'Everyone sees everything'

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