Procurement is the purchase of goods, work, or services. As part of minimum reassurances during a purchase, most customers want to know who they are buying from. In order to know who governments are really doing business with, it is essential to know who directly and immediately owns a company (legal ownership), as well as who is the beneficial owner ultimately benefiting from and exercising control over a company
Procurement
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Connecting data on beneficial ownership, public contracting and politically exposed persons: reflections from a regional anti-corruption workshop
Our recent workshop in Botswana sought to address questions like why should governments and law enforcement agencies pay attention to public procurement to prevent and detect corruption? How can open contracting help, and what is the link between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and public procurement?
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 04 April 2023
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Connecting beneficial ownership data and public procurement in Kenya
Open Ownership organised a workshop in Nairobi on 14 and 15 June 2022 to discuss the current state of beneficial ownership data in Kenya, and its connections to public procurement
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 22 June 2022
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Event: beneficial ownership data and public procurement in Kenya
Join Open Ownership and the Business Registration Service for a two-day hybrid workshop to discuss the current state of beneficial ownership data and its connections to public procurement in Kenya
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 08 June 2022
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Integrity in IMF COVID-19 financing
Many governments appealed to the International Monetary Fund for financial support at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report assesses whether countries delivered on their procurement and beneficial ownership transparency commitments
Written by Open Contracting Partnership, Oxford Insights
Published: 15 April 2021
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Beneficial ownership data in procurement: Beyond transparency and accountability
Written by Tymon Kiepe
Published: 15 March 2021
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Beneficial ownership data in procurement
This policy briefing outlines the main ways beneficial ownership data can improve public procurement processes and objectives, and discusses some of the key considerations and decisions that implementers face
Written by Tymon Kiepe , Eva Okunbor
Published: 11 March 2021
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Beneficial ownership transparency: Transforming public procurement in South Africa
Written by Karabo Rajuili
Published: 23 February 2021