This research question seeks to initiate a discourse on how to promote SPP in developing countries. And to explain how/why it is likely to be practiced my some government agencies in such regions.
Hi,
Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) policy implementation in developing countries may be hindered due to some of the following categories of factors:
- Human : inadequate competence and training; corruption; bribery, extortion; conflicts of interest; patent issue; indigenous rights issues;
- Institutional: no or insufficient monitoring and evaluation system; policy documents which may not fit the trendy system; budgetary and resource limitations; inadequate interest and commitment from stakeholders and partners;
- Political: the policy itself may be interspersed with ambiguous words. This issue can leave room for personal or wilful interpretation. Sometimes, the policy is misinterpreted and misappropriated intentionally to realize selfish gains.
I would add to Mr. Olawale one more which is the economic situation.
When the economic context is not fully developed and reached its potential, the sustainable policy seems to lack behind.
Thank you very much Drs. Olawale Festus Olaniyan and Yzabellune Run-Grueger. I appreciate your contributions to this important topic.
However, I wish you could offer some context by making references to specific developing countries who are trying to implement sustainable public procurement.
With regards to Ghana's context, please find answers to this question in our forthcoming article entitled: "The 'baby steps' in mainstreaming Sustainable Public Procurement in Ghana: A double-agency perspective."
In most cases developing economies find it difficult to balance urgent service delivery with Sustainable Public Procurement compliance as these compete for very scarce resources. A typical example would be a Durban community in need of 500 houses and the South African government do have money to build them. However, in order to comply with SPP the government must adopt and use "green houses" approach which is, in most cases uses very expensive building material. Therefore, the government must choose to build "normal" 500 houses OR build only "green" 70 houses. The community will never understand why must they get 70 houses while the money was enough to build 500 houses. In short, SPP is expensive and not really working for underdeveloped or developing economies. Maybe, the well developed economies would survive the SPP approach.
Our article on this subject entitled "The 'baby steps' in mainstreaming Sustainable Public Procurement in Ghana: A double-agency perspective" is now available online.
Feel free to request a copy here on researchgate or download online:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330251260_The_baby_steps_in_mainstreaming_sustainable_public_procurement_in_Ghana_A_double-agency_perspective
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