Promoting gender equality through public procurement. Challenges and good practices

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 priorities to improve the well-being of society as a whole. This paper presents how governments and public buyers can use their purchasing power to promote gender equality and encourage suppliers to improve their performance on women’s empowerment.
It explores the different ways that gender considerations can be integrated into public procurement policies and processes, and discusses the challenges that both policy makers and procurement practitioners face in promoting gender equality through public procurement.

Why it's a good practice: It explores the global reality after covid 19 and, although it is not about the Portuguese reality per se, it integrates Portugal in its database scope to integrate the various themes concerning gender equality issues (e.g. public procurement, the need for equal power in society) may need to be reflected upon.

Read the full analysis: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/promoting-gender-equality-through-public-procurement_5d8f6f76-en