Procurement Governance
PPDC’s Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape. With over 4 cardinal program areas of Access to Information, open contracting, procurement monitoring and FOI ranking, PG through strategic reform initiatives, overhauls Nigeria procurement system for improved governance and citizens satisfaction. Our PG initiative has successfully revamped public contracting conducts and access to information by improving disclosure practices of public institutions and their responsiveness to citizens demand; enhanced public service effectiveness in Africa and facilitated increased citizen participation in governance
Access to Information
PPDC considers Access to Information as an overarching tool for entrenching a culture of public accountability. As a fundamental human right, ATI is at the core of our program intervention; from strengthening the capacity and knowledge of government actors to developing advocacy tools and training for non-state actors to effectively engage and inform policy choices on improving disclosure practices and compliance to ATI.
PPDC is committed to building knowledge, targeted advocacy and implementing programs targeted at enforcing ATI in Nigeria; incentivising compliance and liberating contractual information and other publicly held information by government Institutions.
Procurement Monitoring
PPDC recognizes that citizens are central in governance and that their active participation in Public finance processes improves the quality of public goods and services provided by the government of which they have reason to value. We have therefore embarked on deploying procurement monitors according to their areas of interest, expertise, and experience.
FOI Ranking
The National Freedom of Information ranking is based on MDAs compliance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act of 2011. Points are assigned to MDAs based on Three main parameters, Proactive Disclosure, Level of Responsiveness to request for information and Level of Disclosure
Budeshi
A dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS). The Budeshi platform is primarily being used to demonstrate to public institutions the utility of using uniform data standards to publish and report information across stages in the procurement value chain.