Annual Report 2023
2023
In Numbers
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Net Promoter Score for OCP
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open contracting data publishers, 57 since 2019
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new progress stories, 29 since 2019
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new global norms: IDB Transparency in Infrastructue Principles; UNCAC resolution on integrity in procurement; East Africa Procurement Forum Resolution. 11 new global norms since 2019
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in direct support for our partners through grants & consultancies, $5m since 2019
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local media mentions of open contracting, 1,427 since 2019
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publishers improving the quality of their open contracting data, 20 since 2019
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new impact stories, 14 since 2019
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actors using OCDS data, 78 since 2019
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times our resources were accessed, 532,659 since 2019
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lives and US$116 billion of public spending positively impacted in five years
Highlight: open contracting stories
Empowering women businesses and municipal reform in Palmira, Colombia, resulting in local farmers winning food contracts with the city
Red light for corruption in the Dominican Republic, increasing competition by nearly 50% and debarring over 60 bad actors
Improving climate resilience in flood-prone Assam, India, using a sophisticated data model for better planning and resource allocation
Fast-tracking green procurement in Lithuania, leading to almost 100% green procurement uptake from just 5% in 2021
Overpricing and inefficient purchasing practices are now more easily identified in Finland thanks to the digital government procurement with Hansel
Opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending in Kazakhstan
Ekiti State, Nigeria, is breaking barriers for women businesses through better procurement practices, seeing a 43% increase in registrations in the state’s procurement system
Open for small business: Paraguay is leveraging its high-quality, open contracting data to measure the participation of small businesses and understand their challenges
The power of citizen contract monitoring to revolutionize public procurement: 200 issues resolved at the local procuring entity level and more in Uganda
The Ukrainian DREAM: Making wartime reconstruction digital and accountable
Buying local, inclusive and green: How Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, is living its values through better procurement
Our work
Read more about our work and partners across the globe.
Africa
We focused on making public procurement more inclusive, by increasing opportunities for disadvantaged groups such as women-led businesses.
Asia
We deepened our footprint in the region, building on our impact, strengthening coalitions of change, and seeing key projects come to fruition.
EECA & Ukraine
We created a strong coalition of CSOs to demand transparent, accountable, and efficient public procurement.
Europe
We focused on using public procurement to implement sustainable policy objectives and provided guidance to strengthen the EU procurement data architecture.
Latin America
We partnered with governments, civil society, and businesses to fix procurement by fighting corruption, boosting inclusion, and delivering better public services.
USA
We demonstrated that better procurement can serve the environment and historically disadvantaged businesses through our work with partners under the Lift program.
Enabling access to credit for small businesses that have been awarded public contracts.
Flagging corruption risks in real-time for better, more efficient, and accountable public procurement processes.
Connecting entrepreneurs to government contracts and providing real-time high-quality feedback on irregularities to the government.
Our organization
We strive to fully disclose the source, amount and purpose of our funding. Our financial reporting and planning data are included as part of our Annual Reports.
We are delighted to have met or exceeded most of our targets for the year 2023.
As the Open Contracting Partnership we know that we can’t do this work alone. We would not have seen the cascade of global impacts that we are celebrating here without our amazing funders. Thank you for your financial support, your engagement, and for pushing us to work even smarter.
It is always a pleasure when we do our Annual Reports to look back and see how much we have grown individually and collectively over the years. Our team members are passionate, smart, and innovative professionals working with frontline reformers globally to deliver radically better outcomes from the trillions of dollars spent on procurement every year. Meet the small but powerful team doing such excellent work worldwide!