#OGPItaly2022 Today Monithon joins a breakout session chaired by Open Contracting Partnership at the OGP Europe Meeting 2022 in Rome sched.co/19Xu6 cc Luigi Reggi Karolis Granickas Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione

#Ukraine needs a Marshall Plan for its reconstruction, but unlike that of 1948, we can go digital, leveraging the super smart #opengov & #opencontracting ecosystem across civil society, gov, business & @kyivschool, say Viktor Nestulia 🇺🇦💙💛 & Volodymyr Tarnay in Financial Times ft.com/content/20829c…

PEOPLE fixing public spending: lessons from #Romania , #Moldova , #Kosovo , #Kyrgyzstan , #Ukraine , a sharp learning session in collab w/ The EBRD. Feb 10. ebrd.glueup.com/event/49021/

A growing culture of transparency and a new digital procurement system have produced a wealth of information on how public contracts are done. Read how civil society and government are using the data to get better results for citizens open-contracting.org/2021/12/14/set…

Government contracting can’t afford to return to the status quo. It will be key to strengthening our democratic institutions + unlocking innovation for our health, climate, and economy. Read Open Contracting Partnership's updated approach to making change: open-contracting.org/OCP2021-strate…

Last week the #OpenProcurementEU Coalition (open-procurement.eu) asked for more transparency in the #EU #RRF (stimulus) plans. This week, Lithuanian Government 🇱🇹 adjusting their RRF plan to respond. Congratulations on setting an example for others! bit.ly/2Th4gAU

🇪🇺 The lack of #transparency requirements on the use of #EUrecovery funds risks generating corruption and undermining public support, argue Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺 and Karolis Granickas in a @EURACTIV op-ed today.
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The lack of transparency requirements on the use of European Commission recovery funds risks generating corruption and undermining public support, argue Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺 and Karolis Granickas for @EURACTIV euractiv.com/section/all/op…

The European Commission must act now to prevent corruption and fraud in recovery funds and to secure public trust. Research by Access Info Europe highlights the risks - Op Ed today by myself and Karolis Granickas of Open Contracting Partnership in @EURACTIV

Together with Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺 and on behalf of the open-procurement.eu Coalition, we argue (there is no argument, really) that if we do not design the stimulus plans with good data and public oversight at the core from the get-go…lnkd.in/dQtsJy8 lnkd.in/dmwRtBR

How can openness improve post-pandemic procurement?
With the Governments of the UK, Italy, European Commission & Access Info Europe, we will be wrestling with this question tomorrow at Democracy and Governance Practice Retreat at 16:00 CET. Register & join us. …overnance-practice-retreat.b2match.io

⚠️The EU’s massive commitment to spend €672.5 billion on the recovery from the pandemic is at risk of #corruption & misuse due to a serious lack of #transparency and #accountability mechanisms, according to a analysis by the #OpenProcurementEU Coalition
access-info.org/2021-06-15/eu-…

How transparent will Member States be about their multi-billion € spending from the massive EU Recovery and Resilience Facility? Too many countries, including Austria, are not planning to have adequate transparency and disclosure mechanisms.

We teamed up with partners to assess the level of transparency of the EU's #RFF . Govts need to do more to safeguard public funds and enable access to info on public spending More: open-procurement.eu

3/3 Like Covid contracts, unless you plan to tag, track & report money now, it will be v. hard to reconcile later. This really matters as trust in government by citizens across Europe is at a low & this is the signature EU intervention for pandemic recovery & a new green deal.

2/3 Yet plans to report & account for money v. v. thin. Only 4 countries – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania & Sweden – scored well on proactive communication. In total, 20 out of 22 plans not planning to release information proactively about RRF recipients directly.

1/3 Great to see the new Open Procurement EU Coalition up & running. This analysis of Europe's Recovery & Resilience Facility is v. important. It's a totemic joint European intervention & it's spending over E672bn through members states...