Skill-building Abstract:

Learning Objectives
The session has three major learning objectives:

• By the end of the session participants will be able to find health-related procurement data and understand how to analyze it;
• By the end of the session participants will be able to utilise tools and processes that will help them identify red flags in procurement processes, thus ensuring the effectiveness of procurement in the health sector, and;
• By the end of the session participants will be able to submit queries to the authorities and organise advocacy around suspected corruption cases.

Session Description, Format and Flow:

An estimated 10% to 25% of public contract’s value is lost to corruption every year. Contracting systems, which do not have safeguards against corruption risks, or are not robust enough to ensure compliance have a higher potential for corruption resulting in essential resources being lost. This risk is especially high during health crisis, when additional resources are mobilised quickly in order to gain essential products. Contracting processes are less likely to be abided during the emergency period, more information can be found here.
Transparency International’s Health Initiative seeks ‘to reduce corruption in the health sector for the benefits of all people in all contexts’. As part of this aim there is a particular aim on contracting processes, such as the Initiative’s Open Contracting for Health project, and our recently initiated ‘Improving Covid-19 Procurement to Increase Equitable Access to Medicines and Equipment’ project.
The session will draw upon the learning gained from these projects and share processes and methods that can be used to reduce the risk of corruption in health sector contracting processes.

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