Visual contracts can make the legal process more accessible. But there are challenges that need to be addressed before they become more widespread and accepted.
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Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
Nigerians lack access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities despite investment in these areas. Procurement law contributes to this inadvertently.
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals.
The increased and diverse number of contestants shows a citizenry that is unwilling to leave its fate in the hands of ineffective incumbents.
South Africa’s constitutional values of good public governance and transparency in public procurement have been sacrificed in the process of buying COVID-19 vaccines.
Eight former directors of the collapsed super-contractor face being banned for up to 15 years if they are found to be unfit to run a company.
The draft public procurement bill makes room for confidentiality without defining it and limiting its use to narrow circumstances. This leaves the door wide open to abuse.
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