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Impact Stories

More than 40 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.

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.

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

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

Opening up Moldova’s contracts. Progress and challenges

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

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

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

Opening up Moldova’s contracts. Progress and challenges

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

A network of determined transparency advocates convinced the government that open contracting could improve decision-making and oversight

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

Making participation and use of open contracting data sustainable

 Lessons from Bandung, Indonesia

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

Opening up Moldova’s contracts. Progress and challenges

Kyrgyz Republic: How open contracting can support small business

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

 A network of determined transparency advocates convinced the government that open contracting could improve decision-making and oversight

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

Bedrock for better public infrastructure in Honduras

 How open contracting is driving more powerful controls — from spot checks to analyzing sector trends

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

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

 With consistent community pressure, there has been a dramatic improvement in how funds for school facilities are allocated in Cd del Este

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

 How open contracting helped fix Colombia’s biggest school meal program

Paraguay’s transparency alchemists

 How citizens are using open contracting to improve public spending

Open it to fix it

 How Nigerians are shedding light on public deals with data

Using open data to boost business opportunities for women in Albania

 Through open data, AIS has been able to analyze the effectiveness of policies that seek to foster opportunities for female entrepreneurs.

'Everyone sees everything'

 Overhauling Ukraine's corrupt contracting sector.

Taming crocodiles in Afghanistan: Can open contracting give corruption fighters the upper hand?

 Afghanistan's progress in opening up public procurement in a challenging environment