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2 | Advocacy | Monitoring | Analysis | Case Building | Engagement | Other - Data publishing - Public policy reform - Poliltical buy-in - Connect w/funders - Showcase | CSOs | Journos | Academ | Govt | Private | Technical Infrastructure * Required? | Data availability * Required? | Data quallity * Required? | Global | Regional | Country / City | |||||||||
3 | OCP LIFT | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/implement/lift/ | LIFT provides change management and open contracting support to teams of reformers (in 5 countries) with ambitious plans towards systemic change. | Initiative | High Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Data publlishing - Public policy reform - Political buy-in | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Buenos Aires Ecuador Mexico City Moldova | ||
4 | OCDS Site: Documentation | Open Contracting Partnership | https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/ | This is an introduction to the concept and implementation of OCDS. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Data publishing | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | N/A | ||
5 | OCP website - Open Contracting definition | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/what-is-open-contracting/ | The website provides an overview of open contracting, with sections that explain the importance of public contracts and how open contracting works in them. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | N/A | |||
6 | OCP "Questions? Ideas?" email | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/ | The "engage@open-contracting.org" email is on the footer of most pages of OCP's website and is open to any user from any context to contact OCP with questions and ideas. | Service | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | N/A | |||
7 | OCP Help Desk email | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/ | The "help desk" with email data@open-contracting.org is available to mainly governments to contact OCP for personalized support. It is placed on the footer and body of some pages of OCP's website. | Service | High Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - Data publishing | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | N/A | ||
8 | The Open Contracting Playbook | Open Contracting Partnership | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y_sYOqUfdRdnvU6P8-aJFqWw9LaTNbbIPS0oJtmskCQ/edit | The Open Contracting Playbook is a compendium of all OCP resources and support. It covers how to set reform goals and secure buy-in, open contracting data publishing and use, engagement tactics and measuring and institutionalizing reforms. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Public policy reform - M&E - Data publishing | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | N/A | ||
9 | OCP’s Low-Tech Open Contracting Cheat Sheet draft: | Open Contracting Partnership | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s53TVaHfJ7WO2zU4-N0EtxzoiRWuX6ZEIc9Z01qF-TQ/edit#heading=h.ek28lxj4sc5z | The "Low-Tech cheat sheet" is OCP's compilation of resources and support that are provided by diverse organizations and deemed appropriated for Low Tech contexts. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | N/A | |||
10 | Advocacy Primer: OCP’s Making the case for open contracting | Open Contracting Partnership | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWXjps_28iOoZpsdglL0CGt4DgFYq4ShWbQlrWLkv04/edit | The "adovocacy primer" contains facts and figures that can help anyone create briefs, presentations and project documents to make the case for open contracting adoption and implementation. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Showcase - Public policy reform | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Latin America Africa | "Success" countries and cases | ||
11 | Change management for open contracting reforms | Open Contracting Partnership | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uJiCSbMY8TmXf_-fFFQM3riashWA-SA2Kmof0jzjZv8/edit?ts=5e21e61f | The "change management" builds off LIFT and brings together an organized collection of guidance documents to implement open contracting reforms, including publications, blogs that provide context, and very specific worksheets to use right away. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Public policy reform | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
12 | Open Contracting Tools Directory | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/resources/open-contracting-tools-directory/ | The directory keeps track of re-usable and open source code software tools that can be used to create, use, visualize or analyze OCDS data. It allows you to browse and search the directory in different modes. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | - Data publishing - M&E | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
13 | AirTable: Tools Gallergy | Open Contracting Partnership | https://airtable.com/shrzycSNYRcmV0WSZ/tblhHNGcDXuievZ74 | The directory keeps track of re-usable and open source code software tools that can be used to create, use, visualize or analyze OCDS data. It allows you to browse and search the directory in different modes. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | - Data publishing * Tool compiler | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
14 | AirTable: Inspiration Gallergy | Open Contracting Partnership | https://airtable.com/shrsJ2QRVrpUaUWLf/tblhHNGcDXuievZ74 | The airtable keeps track of open contracting projects with platforms to serve as inspiration when creating new open contracting projects or platforms | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No | - Showcasse * Tool complier | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
15 | Open Contracting Resources (search) | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/resources/ | "Open Contracting Resources" contains a mix guides, reports, brochures, methodologies and training material created by OCP and partners with a filter function to make search content by types more friendly. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Data publishing - Public policy reform - Showcase * Tool compiler | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes - Mexico (created) | ||
16 | Open contracting reform design & management | Open Contracting Partnership | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ANWlvGpywMeQb8bTfKwETSDm7i2xRL0Sfn59JcOrvp8/edit#heading=h.l93doiz68dbm | The "open contracting reform, design and management is a guide on how to plan, communicate and implement successful public contracting reform projects. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Public policy reform | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
17 | Slide Deck: Advocating for Open Contracting | Open Contracting Partnership | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Pmp8sJzR2kYUPV14fM6uouc2IPurvCjBZlKm1XGJGas/edit | "Advocating for Open Contracting" is a slide deck that provides use cases and evidence for pitching open contracting and introduction to the open contracting data standard | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Showcase | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Many city and country specific success cases | ||
18 | Open Contracting Journey in 7 Steps | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/7-steps-guidance.pdf | The "open contracting journey" is a brochure that visualizes and explains open contracting project in 7 steps: design, map, build, publish, use, learn and show | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
19 | Open up public contracting: Brochure | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Open-contracting_FA_v1_for_web.pdf | This contains infromation on what open contracting is, why it matters and how OCP works on it | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||
20 | Mythbusting Confidentiality in Public Contracting | Open Contracting Partnership | http://mythbusting.open-contracting.org/ | The guide examines the ten most common arguments against making contracting information public and proposes five core principles to make contracting information open-by-design to avoid a lazy default of routinely classifying information as confidential unless proven otherwise. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |||
21 | Using procurement data: indicators & guidance | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.open-contracting.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Use-Case-Guide_-Research-report-final-design-.pdf | The report presents findings on how open contracting implements have used open contracting principles for various use cases and factors that support these use cases. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | User research | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
22 | Open Contracting Practitioner’s Guide | Open Contracting Partnership | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L8wMdsV43BRDNzRV9mdzByNUk/view?usp=sharing | The book was developed through a participatory approach by practitioners to guide practitioners on how they can engage with open contracting activities in different countries settings and environments and what elements to take into account when engaging in this type of work. It is of particular relevance to those interested in enhancing monitoring of contract award and implementation. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Showcase | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
23 | Investigating Procurement in a COVID-19 World | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75m3wxkgCE8 | This YouTube video disccusses how to spot red flags in public contracting with particular reference to COVID-19 procurement and contains details on spotting potential fraud, collusion, bid rigging, fixing plans, fixing tenders, fixing awards or fixing implementations. | Process | Low Intensity | Health | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - Showcase | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | N/A | N/A | ||
24 | Data Use Beyond Publication | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqUgGULJCE | This YouTube video is a recording of an OCDS community call with 3 presenters covering data maturity models for countries - covers how countries can go from minimal data to scaling their data culture, accountability by demand - highlights the need to bridge the need for accountability in places with subpar data standards and wrapped with some OCDS updates and tools. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - Data publishing | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | N/A | N/A | ||
25 | Investigating Public Procurement with Open Contracting | Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1PTqnZK3PQ | This YouTube video presents how to spot red flags and use public procurement data to tell stories about public spending and it notes details related to spotting potential fraud, collusion, bid rigging, fixing plans, fixing tenders, fixing awards or fixing implementations. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - Showcase | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | N/A | N/A | ||
26 | Corruption Risk Dashboard | Development Gateway | http://ocdemo.developmentgateway.org/ui/index.html#!/crd | The "Corruption Risk Dashboard (CRD)" is an open source tool that aims to help users understand the potential presence of corruption in public contracting. Through a red flagging approach (highlighting procurement activities that have certain risk factors). It is a prototype that explores corruption risk through the visualization of 10 indicators that are mapped to three different forms of corruption: fraud, collusion, and process rigging. | Tool | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | - Data visualization | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
27 | Procurement M&E Platfrom | Development Gateway | http://ocdemo.developmentgateway.org/ui/index.html | The "Procurement M&E Prototype" is an interactive platform for analyzing, monitoring, and evaluating information on public procurement. It is specifically designed to help users understand procurement efficiency, and the competitiveness and cost-effectiveness of public markets. | Tool | Medium Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | - Data visualization | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
28 | Red flags for integrity: Giving the green light to open data solutions | Open Contracting Partnership, Development Gateway | https://www.open-contracting.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OCP2016-Red-flags-for-integrityshared-1.pdf | This methodology guide shows how to use open data in public procurement, ideally released in the OCDS, to identify corruption risks throughout the procurement process from planning to implementation. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | - Monitoring corruption with red fllags | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
29 | Hivos Open Up Contracting Programme | Hivos | https://www.hivos.org/program/open-contracting/ | "Open Up Contracting" programme provides a mix of grant and technical assistance to infomediaries in 7 countries to implement open contracting projects that relate to their organization's work and advocacy agenda. | Initiative | High Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - "Make the case" | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Bolivia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Philippines, Tanzania | ||
30 | Open Up Contracting Advocacy Toolkit / Hivos OC Basics Toolkit | Hivos | https://openupcontracting.org/assets/2019/05/Advocacy-Toolkit-Open-Up-Contracting.pdf | This toolkit aims to provide essential guidance and ideas to advocacy officers and civil society organizations (CSOs) wishing to mobilize and support people to jointly advocate locally, nationally or globally for more efficient, transparent and accountable public contracting processes. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Indonesia, Philippines, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Kenya, and Nepal. | |||
31 | Open Up Contracting - Getting Started | Hivos | https://openupcontracting.org/getting-started/ | The "getting started" page provides an overview on the different entry points and ways to engage based on profiles, interests and capacities. It also provides links to resources for the different profiles. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
32 | Local Open Contracting Initiatives (LOCI) | Hivos | https://openupcontracting.org/projects/local-open-contracting-initiatives/ | The Local Open Contracting Initiatives (LOCI) is a global linking and learning mechanism for subnational Open Contracting (OC) initiatives and reforms. LOCI works with champions and reformers in government, civil society and the private sector to create and implement ambitious local OC initiatives to deliver better quality goods and services for the public, save the government money, and create a level playing field for business. | Initiative | High Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Data publishing - Public policy reform | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes "local jurisdictions (cities, provinces, counties, etc) " | ||
33 | Integrity Pacts in Public Producrement: An Implementation Guide | Transparency International | https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/integrity-pacts-in-public-procurement-an-implementation-guide | The "Integrity Pact" consists of a process that includes an agreement between a government or government agency (‘the authority’) and all bidders for a public sector contract, setting out rights and obligations to the effect that neither side will pay, offer, demand or accept bribes; nor will bidders collude with competitors to obtain the contract, or bribe representatives of the authority while carrying it out. An independent monitor who oversees IP implementation and ensures all parties uphold their commitments under the IP brings transparency and invaluable oversight to all stakeholders in a contracting process, from the authority to the public. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | - Public policy reform | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | N/A | N/A | ||
34 | Open Contracting Hub | Transparency International | https://oc-hub.org/moodle/ | The "Open Contracting Hub" contains tutorials on the essentials of open contracting, what it is and how it is used across the globe. The courses are grouped by difficulty levels, some have certificates and there's a forum for discussions. | Tool | Medium Intensity | Health | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
35 | Recommendations on Open Contracting for OGP Action Plans | Transparency International | https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/recommendations_on_open_contracting_for_open_government_partnership_nationa | This briefing discusses how to fight corruption in public procurement in the context of the OGP, trends and examples of good practice in open contracting and existing and model national action plan commitments | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Political buy-in | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes - National level action plans | ||
36 | Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement: A Practical Guide | Transparency International | https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/curbing_corruption_in_public_procurement_a_practical_guide | This guide provides government officials, businesses and civil society with a practical introduction to the risks of corruption in public procurement. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
37 | Guide to procurement monitoring | Transparency International | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5mFIGaULYDddnh1Sjh4RGxHVmlKeDJFdG9CNEp4ZGhYY18w/view | This is a procurement monitoring guide for civil society organisations, starts with the basic definitions of corruption and procurement monitoring. It details red flags on different stages of the procurement cycle and suggestes possible actions that can be taken. It also shows sector specific red flags, in health, education and Infrastructure. It features some country specific tools and resources that can also be used for procurement monitoring. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | |||
38 | Transparency International's Open Contracting for Health (OC4H) | Transparency International | https://ti-health.org/open-contracting-for-health/ | The "Open Contracting for Health (OC4H)" initiative works in Asia and Africa and aims to build governments’ capacities to implement open contracting in public health procurement, facilitate the diversity of suppliers in health sector public procurement while bringing together small, medium and large enterprises and increase sustainable engagement of civil society in public procurement processes through network strengthening and capacity building. | Initiative | High Intensity | Health | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Data publishing - Increase diversity of suppliers - Build government capacity - Increase CS engagement | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes Kenya Uganda Zambia South Africa Nepal | ||
39 | "Open Up" AirTable | Open Data Charter | https://airtable.com/shrHY9KFJ5bircwvx/tblOY2aw1hYUuJze9?blocks=hide | This airtable collecs 30 core datasets, standards and use cases identified as part of the Open Up Guide, created by the Open Data Charter. It states defines the datasets, with concepts, notes, examples, etc. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
40 | Adoption and Implementation Roadmap | Open Data Charter | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1atflLB_r7cz24sNZo2vsC2Jrek28YG55/view | This document provides a suggested roadmap in the form of a recommended action plan. It is intended to act as a reference for governments officials to turn the Charter principles into a set of concrete actions that can help plan and improve open data practice. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Data publishing | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||
41 | International Best Practices for Transparency in Contract Management | NRGI | https://resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/files/documents/international-best-practices-contract-management-english.pdf | This report aims to fill gaps in public contract management by providing the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) of Mexico with examples and recommendations drawn from international experience and analysis on how to maximize transparency in the administration of oil and gas projects. | Process | Low Intensity | Extractive | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes Mexico | |||
42 | Open Contracting for Oil, Gas, and Mineral Rights: Shining a Light on Good Practice | Open Contracting Partnership, NRGI | https://resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/files/documents/open-contracting-for-oil-and-gas-mineral-rights.pdf | This document makes a series for recommendations for government when implementing open contracting in the oil, gas and mineral industry. It documents best practices on information and states recommendations across all stages of the contracting process on extracting industries, namely planning, the allocation and award process, contracts themselves, and their implementation. | Process | Low Intensity | Extractive | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Public policy reform | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
43 | Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standards Toolkit | Open Contracting Partnership, CoST Infrastructure Transparency Initiative | https://standard.open-contracting.org/infrastructure/latest/en/ | The "OC4IDS" builds on the CoST IDS and combines contract-level disclosure based on the Open Contracting Data Standard and project-level disclosure based on the CoST IDS. It standardizes the approach to disclosing data through the use of online platforms, encouraging data centralisation and making it available in ‘real time’. | Tool | Low Intensity | Infrastructure | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||
44 | OC4IDS Support | Open Contracting Partnership, CoST: Infrastructure Transparency Initiative | https://standard.open-contracting.org/infrastructure/latest/en/support/ | This is an extension of OCP's help desk with email data@open-contracting.org but targets infrastructure projects | Service | Medium Intensity | Infrastructure | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |||
45 | Methodology for Open Contracting Scoping Studies | Open Contracting Partnership, Development Gateway, Hivos, World Bank, GIZ | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BIlG3gP1AS4Fs0snb8W_W_8znme4A7_JqKKhOhAU5t0/edit | This is a guide for scoping countries and their contexts before implementing Open Contracting. It provides guidance on how to gauge the state of openness of public procurement processes in a certain country, understand the key capacities and interests of key procurement actors, and identify opportunities for procurement reform and the adoption of open contracting principles. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Sccoping | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
46 | Red Flags linked to OCDS Mapping | Open Contracting Partnership, Development Gateway | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12PFkUlQH09jQvcnORjcbh9-8d-NnIuk4mAQwdGiXeSM/edit#gid=0 | This is linked to the "methodology for open contracting scoping studies" it maps out various red flags through all stages of the public procurement cycle with "associate schema" and "indicator description". | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |||
47 | Open Up Guide: Using Open Data to Combat Corruption | Open Data Charter, Open Contracting Partnership, Open Data for Development Network, Transparencia Mexicana | https://open-data-charter.gitbook.io/open-up-guide-using-open-data-to-combat-corruption/ | This briefing explains how open data can be used to tackle corruption and accompanies the launch of Open Up Guide: Using Open Data to Combat Corruption. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | - Public policy reform - Prevention / Detection / Investigation / Enforcement | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No - Coauthored with TI Mexico - Many case studies to specific countries! | ||
48 | Tool Re-use in Open Contracting: A Primer | The Engine Room, Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.theengineroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11.19-The-Engine-Room-OC-PRIMER.pdf | This primer is a starting point for anyone interested in taking advantage of existing tools to publish or use open contracting data. The steps in this primer are designed to offer organisations a clearer view on what tools are out there, how to find support, how to evaluate whether a tool is the right fit for their goals and context, and what will contribute towards the successful re-use of their chosen tool. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | No | No | Tool reuse | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
49 | Tool Re-use in Open Contracting: Evaluation Matrix | The Engine Room, Open Contracting Partnership | https://www.theengineroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11.19-The-Engine-Room-OC-MATRIX.pdf | This is a set of self-evaluation questions under 14 categories, in 4 areas (tools and ecosystem, implementation team, context and sustainability) in order to establish wether the conditions exist or not for successful tool re-use of OC tools. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | No | No | Ecosystem mapping Tool mapping Capacity mapping | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
50 | Open Contracting & Procurement | Open Government Partnership | https://www.opengovpartnership.org/policy-area/open-contracting/ | The "Open Contracting & Public Procurement" page on OGP's website with resources that include organizations, open contracting commitments, global reports, recommendations and blogposts | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Public policy reform | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
51 | Monitoring Public Procurement In South Africa: A Reference Guide For Civil Society Organizations | International Budget Partnership (South Africa) | https://www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/guide-to-monitoring-public-procurement-in-south-africa-2015.pdf | This guide presents CSOs and other interested readers with information and tools to help monitor public procurement. The assumption is that robust oversight over public procurement in South Africa will ultimately improve service delivery, reduce corruption, and strengthen public participation. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes South Africa | |||
52 | A Guide To Finding Information About Municipal Contracted Services In Your Community | International Budget Partnership (South Africa) | https://www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/south-africa-guide-to-finding-information-about-municipal-contracted-services-ibp-2018.pdf | The guide breaks down municipal contracting in laymans terms focusing on documents that citizens can find (with vidual examples) and events they can attend to learn more, aimed at citizens, for monitoring / accountability. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes South Africa | |||
53 | Resource Contracts | NRGI, OpenOil, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, World Bank | https://www.resourcecontracts.org/ | The website is a repository of publicly available oil, gas, and mining contracts. It features plain language summaries of each contract’s key social, environmental, human rights, fiscal, and operational terms, and tools for searching and comparing contracts. | Tool | Medium Intensity | Extractive | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
54 | IBP Publications and Resources Library | International Budget Partnership | https://www.internationalbudget.org/library/publications/ | This repository produces and disseminates research and analysis on a range of topics related to public finance, governance, civil society, and budget advocacy. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||
55 | A Guide To Transparency In Public Finances: Looking Beyond The Budget | International Budget Partnership | https://www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/Looking-Beyond-the-Budget.pdf | This guide is a compendium of five briefs that goes beyond the eight key budget reports covered in the guides to examine other areas of public finance that are less well understood and especially vulnerable to efforts to shield them from public scrutiny: 1. Extrabudgetary Funds 2. Tax Expenditures 3. Quasi-Fiscal Activities 4. Contingent Liabilities 5. Future Liabilities | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |||
56 | How To Read And Use A Budget Policy Statement And A County Fiscal Strategy Paper | International Budget Partnership (Kenya) | https://www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/kenya-how-to-read-and-use-budget-policy-statement-and-county-fiscal-strategy-paper-2016.pdf | This guide is part of a series on how to read and use key national and county budget documents in Kenya. It examines the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), a document which must be produced by the national government every year, using the BPS 2016 as an example. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes Kenya | |||
57 | Open Budget Survey | International Budget Partnership | https://www.internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/ | The Open Budget Survey Data Explorer lets users examine current and previous results of the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey in a myriad of ways including maps, timelines, regional comparisons, and more. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes 117 countries | |||
58 | Open Data Tutorial: Opening and promoting use of budget data | GIFT | http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/use/open-data-tutorial-opening-and-promoting-use-of-budget-data/ | The "open data tutorial" concentrates on tools that enable the data opening process to contribute to a successful budget transparency policy. The tutorial has 10 videos accompanied by a downloadable resource with each video. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | - Open data - Data cleaning | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No - Based on Mexico's experience | ||
59 | Peer-collaboration and technical assistance for Stewards | GIFT | http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/assistanceandcollaboration/ | This is a model of technical collaborations, peer-exchange and dialogues through events and trainings between governments and civil society organizations. The webinars focus on the production, dissemination and use of non-financial performance information, including the focus on thematic areas of gender, environmental finances and the SDGs. | Initiative | High Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Technical capacity building - Peer-to-peer learning | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | From GIFT's network | ||
60 | Targeted Technical assistance | GIFT | http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/assistanceandcollaboration/ | This technical assistance available on requests and involves more in-depth and specific support to a government or civil society organization from inside or outside of the GIFT Network. This technical collaboration entails engaging fiscal openness experts and peer practitioners, including opportunities for discussions with international peers on how to improve fiscal openness and overcome barriers. | Service | Medium Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Technical capacity building | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Mongolia, Liberia, Benin, Nigeria | ||
61 | Fiscal Openness Massive Open Online Course (in development) | GIFT | http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/assistanceandcollaboration/ | This is an online course on fiscal transparency that can enable governments and other stakeholders to better understand the standards assessed as well as the steps they can take to improve their practices in line with those of other governments that have achieved high levels of transparency, addressing users’ needs. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | N/A | |||
62 | Fiscal Openness Accelerator | GIFT | http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/foaproject/ | The "Fiscal Openness Accelerator" project aims to deepen work in improving transparency and enhancing public participation in fiscal policies. The objective of the project is to build the technical capacity of a number of selected governments to improve their fiscal transparency and to implement mechanisms for public participation in the elaboration of fiscal policies, while providing a dialogue between civil society and public finance authorities on the use of public resources. | Initiative | High Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Technical capacity - Public participation | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Benin, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa (funded by US), seeking funding to include Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Mexico and the Philippines | ||
63 | Tactical Data Engagement | Sunlight Foundation | https://communities.sunlightfoundation.com/methodology/ | The "Tactical Data Engagement (TDE)" is a four-step framework designed for local government staff develop a resident-centered culture of open data (in the long-term) and generate buy-in for resident-centered open data through tactical, meaningful wins for the community (in the short-term). It is a guiding framework for data providers, inside and outside of City Hall, to investigate and catalyze community use of information and open data. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | - Project design | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes USA. 60 cities | ||
64 | Community Data Dialogues | Sunlight Foundation | https://communities.sunlightfoundation.com/action/data-dialogues/ | This playbook accompanies our Guide to Tactical Data Engagement, a guidebook to help cities go beyond open data policies and platforms, to help residents use open data for community problem-solving. Tactical Data Engagement (TDE) helps data providers like city governments provide better open data and public information that’s tailored to community needs. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Community participation | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes 60 cities in USA | ||
65 | Civacts | Accountability Lab | https://www.civacts.org/ | Civacts is a citizen helpdesks pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process. The helpdesks have now collected critical information from hundreds of communities across Nepal, Liberia and Mali, solving daily problems for citizens and closing the loop on challenges related to everything from migration, to human trafficking, to natural resource management and security issues. | Service | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | N/A | Asia & Africa: Nepal, Liberia, Mali, Pakistan, Nigeria | N/A | |||
66 | MAPS Analytical Framework | OECD, World Bank, Development Assistance Committee | http://www.mapsinitiative.org/methodology/ | The Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) is the only tool that assesses public procurement systems in their entirety. It is universal and can be used by all countries - regardless of income level or development status. | Methodology | Low Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | - Country context | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
67 | U4 Anti-Corruption partner services | U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center | https://www.u4.no/ | The U4 "anticorruption partner services" provicdes online training, workshops and events and a help desk to partners for free. | Service | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | - Workshop & event facilitation - Research | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
68 | U4 Anti-Corruption Helpdesk | U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center | https://www.u4.no/helpdesk | The U4 "anticorruption help desk" provicdes research briefings to partner agencies. | Service | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | No | No | No | No | - Research | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
69 | Monitoring Road Works Contracts and Unit Costs for Enhanced Governance in Europe and Central Asia | World Bank | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L8wMdsV43BaXNHZ016NG5EY0k/view | This is a report based on analysis done on several road construction projects funded by the World Bank. It shows how to read, analyze and find red flags in road contract data. It also includes some examples of data analysis that inform conversations around value for money. Concludes with high level recommendations that can help improve construction outcomes. The study establishes a framework for cross-country comparative assessments of the procurement and implementation processes of road works contracts financed by the Bank. | Process | Low Intensity | Infrastructure | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | Europe & Central Asia | N/A | |||
70 | Guide to implementing the EITI Standard | EITI | https://eiti.org/guide | The guide to implementing EITI standard" are a set of tools that allow organizations apply the EITI standard in extractive industry projects, when working through governance, legal frrameworks, exploration and production, revenue collection and allocation and more. | Process | Low Intensity | Extractive | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |||
71 | Civil Society Monitoring of Public Procurement Program | Partnership for Transparency | https://www.ptfund.org/programs/procurement/ | The "CSO Procurement Monitoring program" trains CSOs to identify and expose corruption and waste plaguing public procurement; and supports them in constructively engaging with sympathetic authorities to find solutions. | Service | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | - Networking - Funding | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Country specific projects | ||
72 | QuienEsQuienWiki | PODER | https://www.quienesquien.wiki/ | This platform aggregates contract data and makes power relations analysis on who makes contracts with the government of Mexico | Tool | Medium Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | - Connections among contracts | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Latin America | Mexico | ||
73 | Academi Antikorupsi (Anti-Corruption Academy) | Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) | https://akademi.antikorupsi.org/ | The "Anti-Corruption Academy" is a place for activists and the wider community to learn together online, offline, and to combine both about corruption and its methods of eradication. The Anti-Corruption Academy is an educational program organized by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW). | Service | High Intensity | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | - Knowledge building (on anti-corruption) | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Indonesia | ||
74 | Datahub | Open Nepal | http://opennepal.net/index.php/datahub | Datahub is a resource library of portals, data platforms and different initiatives that concentrates every website or resource for Nepal: from open street to data Nepal. | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Nepal | |||
75 | Budeshi | PPDC | https://www.budeshi.ng/ | The "Budeshi" data portal collect, stores and provides overview analysis of public contracts from various MDAs in tabular format. It allows the user to export the ddata to JSON and CSV formats. Shows high level analysis such as highest and lowest contract sums or number of contracts an agency has approved. It also indicates projects that PPDC as host have groundtruthed. It provides a query function by states, procuring entity, geography and more. | Tool | Medium Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - Political Buy-in | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Nigeria, Others | ||
76 | Public Procurement Observation Checklist | PPDC | http://library.procurementmonitor.org/backend/files/PUBLIC%20PROCUREMENT%20OBSERVATION%20CHECKLIST%20.pdf | The "public procurement observation checklist" is a guide that lets the user, most likely CSOs (or third party)observing a bidding process within a public procurement authority check and confirm adherence to a procurement process, from bid advertisement, to evaluation to award. It contains a stage by stage checklist to help avoid missing key activities in each stage. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Nigeria | |||
77 | PPDC Library | PPDC | http://library.procurementmonitor.org/ | This library contains PDF files, with FOI requests and responses, various tenders, budget and contract approvals, and procurement laws in Nigeria. You can search for files by categories or go through all 19 pages that go as far back as files from 1999 budget | Tool | Low Intensity | N/A | No | No | No | No | No | - Public policy reform | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Nigeria | ||
78 | Guide to Procurement Monitoring | South Africa National Treasury | https://procurement.vulekamali.gov.za/ | The "guide to procurement monitoring" contains step by step guide of procurement systems in South Africa, it indicates weaknesses in the systems, potential redflags along the procurement cycle and offer who to contact in cases of whistleblowing, an emergency or general inquiries. | Process | Low Intensity | N/A | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | - Data publishing - Public policy reform | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | South Africa | ||
79 | Classroom Construction Community Monitoring Tool | Ugandan Contracts Monitoring coalition (Ugandan civil society, Government, private sector actors, World Bank) c/o AFIC | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L8wMdsV43Bbl8xYW8xRjZRUUE/view | The "classroom construction community monitoring tool" is a detailed series of yes or no check boxes with room for explanation if needed. It covers project, financial, operational and technical details for school projects in Uganda. It is useful throughout the stages of construction multi stakeholders who make up community monitors but will be coordinated by CSOs, who share the information with official project monitors/supervisors. | Tool | Low Intensity | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | Uganda | |||
80 | Bayanihang Eskwela Manual | Ateneo School of Government | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L8wMdsV43BZFlPTGxFNXJjQU0/view | This is designed specifically to facilitate effective community participation in ensuring quality school building projects. It prescribes five (5) specific stages for a successful monitoring project: 1. Forming monitoring teams and setting up coordination mechanisms; 2. Capacity building for monitors; 3. Community based monitoring of school building projects; 4. Generating results and outcomes and; 5. Reporting and conducting dialogues. | Process | Low Intensity | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | Phillipines | |||
81 | Bantay Eskuwela Operational Guidelines | Procurement Watch INC. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L8wMdsV43Bek9kUHgwVE9mbmc/view | This process guide is specific to school furniture procurement monitoring. It was developed after a huge procurement of school furniture in the Phillipines went bad. It is a detailed guide with tools for community and citizen led monitoring activities. It includes things how to get technical specifications and market prices for comparism. | Process | Low Intensity | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | Phillipines | |||
82 | Laymanized Manual on Monitoring Infrastructure Projects by a Practitioner | Concerned Citizens of ABRA for Good Governance (CCAGG) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MkdwKcUAA0HXbakE4kJod8TbZZhErtNY/view | The manual covers roads and bridges, flood control, irrigation system, domestic water supply and building construction. It highlights common defects and erroneous practices with appropriate corrective measures at the various stage of construction of these facilities. It presents the technical terms on Philippine standard specifications on Infrastructure projects with simple illustrations and images. | Process | Low Intensity | Infrastructure | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | East Asia & Pacific | Phillipines | |||
83 | A Guide to Medicine monitoring in Public Hospitals | Coalition Against Corruption | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L8wMdsV43BZDYweWdvXzZCVkk/view | This is a 6 page excerpt from a larger 30 page booklet and indicates red flags in the medicine procurement chain | Process | Low Intensity | Health | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | Phillipines | |||
84 | CheckmySchool | Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific (ANSA-EAP) Foundation, Inc. | https://www.checkmyschool.org/ | "CheckMySchool" is a participatory monitoring initiative for the education sector in the Philippines. It aims to continuously improve the quality of education services by bringing the participation of citizens and communities into the governance of public schools in the country. It started in 2011 as an experimental partnership project with the Department of Education along the advocacy for access to information and social accountability. CheckMySchool operates in three stages namely (a) data access, (b) feedback, (c) issue resolution. All these stages require training for volunteers and linkaging with various stakeholders. The complete cycle normally takes three to six months to finish. | Service | High Intensity | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | N/A | Phillipines |