Authors: C. Harland; G. Callendar; H. Walker; J. Lynch; J. Rehme; J. Telgen; T. Tatrai
There is growing evidence and acceptance that public procurement can lead to positive social and economic outcomes in the wider local community (McCrudden, 2004) and is therefore a form of sustainable procurement (Walker et al. (2012). Building on Walker et al.’s (2012) study of social public procurement across 30 OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development) countries, this paper takes a zoom lens approach using three case studies. This exploratory study focuses on identifying evidence of policy-led social public procurement practices for Indonesia, Rwanda and Zambia as three developing nations. Prior studies of public procurement in developing countries have mainly focused on obstacles to implementing reforms (Hunja, 2003 Delavallade, 2006), notably tackling corruption issues, such as in Indonesia (Wahid and Sein, 2013) and in African nations (Léon de Mariz et al. 2014). This study provides evidence of sustainable procurement resulting in community benefits such as employment and training opportunities in Africa and a focus on providing low cost healthcare from procurement contracts in Indonesia
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Publish Year: 2016
Conference: Cape Town (2016)