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Promoting gender equality through public procurement. Challenges and good practices

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Gender-responsive procurement involves using public procurement opportunities to advance promote gender equality. Mainstreaming gender considerations in public procurement is a key dimension of strategic procurement in which public buying power is harnessed to advance public prio

Details

Promoter
OECD Public Governance Policy Papers — website
Power domain
Social Power
Methods / tools
Monitoring
Keywords
gender, public buying, equal procurement, empowerment

Context

An OECD Public Governance Policy Paper on gender-responsive procurement: using public procurement opportunities and public buying power to promote gender equality and encourage suppliers to improve their performance on women's empowerment. It is not specific to Portugal, but Portugal is within its database scope.

Objectives

The paper presents how governments and public buyers can use their purchasing power to promote gender equality and explores how gender considerations can be integrated into public procurement policies and processes.

Conclusions

The paper discusses the challenges that both policy makers and procurement practitioners face in promoting gender equality through public procurement, in the context of the global post-COVID-19 reality.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Single OECD policy paper; no budget figures stated.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — A one-off publication rather than an ongoing programme.
Staffing & skills
OECD Public Governance Policy Papers (promoter)

Conditions for success

  • Harnessing public buying power strategically to advance gender equality and women's empowerment as a public priority

Common failure modes

  • Paper explicitly discusses unresolved challenges facing both policy makers and procurement practitioners in implementing gender-responsive procurement

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