By S.N. Nyeck (eds.)
This ebook offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. via a bottom-up method of case experiences and comparative analyses, students, practitioners, and social activists write concerning the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in gentle of the overall premises of nationwide reform. Reforming the ways that executive purchases works, items, and prone from the personal zone is likely one of the so much sweeping coverage reform undertaken in Africa some time past decade. regardless of the transnational scope of coverage switch, little or no is understood concerning the mechanisms of public procurement governance on the subnational point. The argument during this quantity is that coverage reforms that mitigate contractual dangers alongside the third-dimensional “law-politics-business matrix” usually tend to result in significant institutional transformation and broader social responsibility. Key to major transformation of public procurement is the revitalization and professionalization of the general public zone to satisfy the possibilities and demanding situations of improvement by way of contract.
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Editors. Public Procurement Regulations in Africa, xiii. 6. There are, however, a few exceptions in the field of defense and security, public administration, and public health. See Wuyi Omitoogun and Eboe Hutchful. Editors. Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: The Processes and Mechanisms of Control. Oxford University Press: SIPRI, 2006. Avant, Deborah. The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Kabamba, Patience. Business of Civil War: New Forms of Life in the Debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
33 dynamics in peripheral states and regions in the international system predate the Cold War. One of such question is the use of contractual devices in the construction of an international order involving sovereign imperial procurement of goods, works, and services through private/para-legal/ para-public suppliers trading with or stationed in peripheral states or territories. Thus, beyond the celebratory momentum that the end of the Cold War might have given to a legalistic and managerial approach to public procurement reform globally, inquiry into the historical dynamics sustaining the socioeconomic, political, and legal reasoning of this activity is lacking.
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