We help our partners identify and collaborate with stakeholders to articulate their goals as well as develop implementation plans. Goals can include topics such as strengthening democratic institutions, expanding economic inclusion, or strengthening sustainability and climate resilience.

These goals are articulated as locally-owned measurable outcomes, such as lowering the cost for essential medicines, reducing carbon dioxide emissions, or increasing the participation of local minority-owned businesses. We also help reformers develop robust change management plans, advise on policy and regulatory reform, and help develop monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans.

We help our partners build coalitions of change and make the case for open contracting, and we communicate their story to build buy-in and show that change is possible. This can include co-developing advocacy strategies to overcome vested interests or protect progress during political transitions, elevating champions through our communications efforts, developing resources to help them make the case for change, and providing light support to civil society and journalists to investigate challenges with current procurement systems and document the impact of successful interventions to keep the pressure for reform alive.

We support partners to improve data collection, validation, publication and usability to achieve their objectives. This work can include supporting implementation of the Open Contracting Data Standard. In many places around the world, procurement information is still on paper, in spreadsheets, or poorly structured in various databases. We want to help our partners have information that is accurate, timely, and actionable so we can answer who bought what, from whom, for how much, when, and how. We support data use through capacity building and developing or adopting software solutions, such as business intelligence tools, dashboards to monitor red flags, or tools using non-procurement data to inform procurement decision-making. We also want to help our partners assess and realize the potential of artificial intelligence for better contracting. Under this strategy, we are particularly interested in building tools and systems together with our partners and supporting e-GP transformation.