{"id":2049,"date":"2021-04-01T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dossier.org.ua\/projects\/enhancing-spp\/"},"modified":"2021-12-31T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:15:27","slug":"enhancing-spp","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.dossier.org.ua\/en\/projects\/enhancing-spp\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing sustainable public procurement for the regional transition to inclusive green economy in EECCA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/da\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Nations Development Account<\/a>\u00a0(UNDA) project \u201cEnhancing\u00a0sustainable public procurement for the regional transition to inclusive green economy in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia\u00a0(EECCA)&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 led by\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Nations Environment\u00a0Programme<\/a>\u00a0(UNEP) with support from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unece.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Nations Economic Commission for Europe<\/a>\u00a0(UNECE) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greengrowthknowledge.org\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Green Growth Knowledge Partnership<\/a>\u00a0(GGKP) \u2013 <strong>aims to\u00a0strengthen the capacity of\u00a0countries and\u00a0\u00a0businesses to respond to public tenders with sustainability criteria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Public procurement\u00a0offers a largely untapped opportunity to drive businesses and domestic markets towards innovation and increased sustainability. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shifting that spending towards more sustainable goods and services can generate positive social, environmental and economic results such as poverty reduction, improved equity, reduced\u00a0greenhouse gas\u00a0emissions, green jobs,\u00a0and increased energy and resource efficiency.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/explore-topics\/resource-efficiency\/what-we-do\/sustainable-public-procurement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sustainable public procurement<\/a>\u00a0is thus emerging as key policy instrument to support sustainable development and leverage an inclusive green economy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The three-year project (2018-2021) aims&nbsp;to:&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strengthen the capacity of selected countries in the EECCA region on sustainable public procurement and strengthen the capacity of businesses to respond to public tenders with sustainability criteria\u00a0<\/li><li>Improve capacity of policymakers to design and adopt policies, regulations and procedures for sustainable public procurement practices\u00a0<\/li><li>Enhance capacity of the business sector in the project countries to comply with sustainable public procurement regulations and procedures and sustainability criteria\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The target countries for the project are\u00a0Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, as well as Belarus,\u00a0Georgia,\u00a0Ukraine and Moldova\u00a0in\u00a0Eastern Europe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project builds&nbsp;on regional policy dialogue, helping to&nbsp;foster&nbsp;the transition to a green economy through the promotion of regional knowledge exchanges, exchange of best practices in the implementation of&nbsp;sustainable public procurement&nbsp;and green economy commitments under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greengrowthknowledge.org\/initiatives\/batumi-initiative-green-economy-big-e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Batumi Initiative on Green Economy<\/a>&nbsp;and the establishment of regional expert networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to highlight and disseminate the results and achievement in the beneficiary countries, UNEP cooperate with Information Center \u201cGreen Dossier\u201d (Ukraine) to develop a report and infographics on progress in SPP and eco-labelling, and present the success stories from the countries. \u201cGreen Dossier\u201d is also responsible for organizing the 2nd Pan-European Regional Workshop on SPP and eco-labelling. \u201cGreen Dossier\u201d works closely with UNEP, its project partners (GGKP, UNECE) and national partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public spending has tremendous purchasing power &#8211; accounting for an average of 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in OECD countries and up to 30% in other countries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneplanetnetwork.org\/sustainable-public-procurement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sustainable Public Procurement<\/a> (SPP) is defined as a \u201c<em>process whereby public organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life cycle basis in terms of generating benefits not only to the organization, but also to society and the economy, whilst significantly reducing negative impacts on the environment<\/em>\u201d. 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