#opencontracting

World Bank Institute's Governance of Extractive Industries experience and learning from our work on contract transparency led to creation of the Open Contracting Program.

Open Contracting works at two levels – at the global level, OC aims to facilitate the creation of global principles and data disclosure standards that governments and regulatory bodies can use to help redefine contracting norms in favor of greater transparency and accountability; and at the country level, Open Contracting seeks to reinforce good practice on the ground and enhance disclosure and effective monitoring, with a focus on citizen engagement, largely through multi-stakeholder coalitions with representatives from across government, the private sector and civil society.

Our learning journey began with coalition building for contract monitoring.  A need to share results and broker knowledge lead to capturing and sharing stories, experiences and results through a variety of mechanisms.  These include: 

•Learning series

•Case studies

•Knowledge competitions

•Book Sprint

•CoPs

•Social Reporting

•ONA

Internal Learning:

•Learning history

•Learning journeys

•Learning by doing approach

In parallel we piloted and tested projects including the use of innovative approaches.

We also realized the need to expand and work not just at the country level but broaden our scope globally.  This was the beginning of the Open Contracting Partnership and work on establishing OC as the new norm through global principles, a data standard and global advocacy.

All the learning and knowledge that was being captured both at the country and global levels needed to be packaged, measured and also generate ownership by the different stakeholders involved to allow for further learning and uptake.  

Norma Garza participates in #TALearn Panel on Knowledge for what? and shares how the Open Contracting team has from the very beginning embedded learning into its daily work.  Our approach has empasized learning not just for our implementing partners and clients but also for us internally as a team.

NYC's #checkbooknyc #transparency tool on #budget #revenue #spending #contracts #payroll data.

CheckbookNYC not only contains #opendata but it is also #opencode (you can download it at GitHub and contribute to it).

Checkbook has some basic transparency rules:

Publication frequency-CheckbookNYC is updated daily,

Level of Detail- displays check level expenditures,