Promoting Poverty Aware Procurement on Campus

An Exciting Project on Sector Procurement and International Development

Building on the success of the Sustainable Procurement Project, the EAUC is pleased to announce a follow-on project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).

The Promoting Poverty Aware Procurement on Campus (PPAPC) project is due to complete at the end of March 2010 and there will be 4 outputs on the completion. These include:
 

Poverty-aware procurement guidelines report 
This guidelines report outlines the main issues for procurement related to key commodities and or services, the guidelines are primarily content-related and are also aimed at awareness raising. The report draws upon a series of 14 commodity Information Sheets and provides another way of rapidly accessing summary information from all the sheets across the relevant issues and responses.
 

Poverty-aware procurement information sheets
These commodity information sheets are a series of fourteen two page documents for key commodity/service areas chosen to cover the main areas of procurement relevant to poverty issues and where some sort of constructive response can be made through procurement practice. Each sheet provides an introduction to the commodity or service area, highlighting the main relevant poverty issues, and then provides some examples of the issues. Information is also provided on responses to the issues that can be used as indicators of good practice, sources of further information and summary recommendations for procurement professionals. The commodity areas covered are: 

  • Banking 
  • Beauty 
  • Beverages 
  • Cleaning 
  • Clothing 
  • Electronics 
  • Fruit 
  • Oil & Gas 
  • Paper 
  • Plastics 
  • Seafood 
  • Steel 
  • Timber
  • Vegetables


Poverty-aware procurement guidance report 
This guidance document is a more detailed report concentrating on the principles of poverty-aware procurement and how to integrate them into procurement processes, no matter what stage you are at or procurement set up you have in your institution.


Communication materials
Good communication and effective dissemination of this project is vital to its success. As a result a suite of resources have been created including – podcasts, video clips and reference materials to support awareness raising.

The project started in September 2008 and recruited universities and colleges in the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The project will end in March 2010.

Working with a key sector procurement agencies and consortia, the project aims to raise sector awareness of the link between procurement of goods from developing countries, and poverty.

If you are interested in finding out more please contact project manager Sarah Lee now!

 

Resources