Corruption Category Procurement
Anti-corruption work relating to the purchasing of healthcare resources, such as facilities, medicines and equipment. Corruption in procurement can lead to the purchase of obsolete, dangerous, ineffective, or undelivered products, facilities and services.
Chapters
Research
September 2020
Report on the medicines’ purchase process through the 2014 Fiduciary Agreement
This report analyses the performance of all actors involved in the purchase process of medical products and equipment, in the context of the 2014 Fiduciary Agreement
September 2020
Report on the acquisition, storage and distribution of medicines—Let’s Transform Honduras
Association for a more Just Society (ASJ) is part of Let's Transform Honduras (TH), a network of civil society organisations aiming to generate positive changes in various sectors, including health. In this context, TH decided to conduct a research study on the acquisition, storage and distribution of medicines by the Ministry of Health. The purpose…
July 2020
Medical Procurement in ProZorro: Express Examination 2.0
The report "Medical Procurement in ProZorro: Express Examination 2.0" is the second report dedicated to public procurement in healthcare. It highlights trends in the expenditure of public funds on healthcare since 2017.
July 2020
Transparency and accountability in public administration and service
Research using data from ProZorro showed that there is considerable monopolization on procurement in Ukraine's health sector. ProZorro is an online public procurement platform and a collaboration environment that ensures open access to public procurement (tenders) in Ukraine.
November 2019
Open Data to Fight Corruption: Health Sector
This case study published by TI Slovakia aims to provide guidance to policy-makers and activists in a diverse range of countries on how specific data sets can used to prevent, detect and investigate corruption. An investigation of procurement data by TI Slovakia revealed that many criteria of open data are not being met or are…
November 2019
Report On Public Procurement Monitoring At The Ministry Of Health Supply Of Consumables For Haemodialysis
The health sector in Kosovo is subject to rumours of mismanagement and monopolisation in the supply of medicines and consumables. This was especially evident in the haemodialysis sector where the consumables were all provided by the same company at an unusually high price, with the contracts being awarded in non-disclosed and non-transparent procedures. In April…
November 2019
Monitoring Report of Ministry of Health’s 2016 Improvement Plan
In January 2014, the Honduran government and TI/ASJ signed the “Collaboration and Good Faith Agreement for Promoting Transparency, Combatting Corruption and Strengthening Systems”. Since then, TI/ASJ has conducted independent monitoring and evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s performance in three areas: purchasing and contracts, human resources management, and data collection and evaluation. Based on TI/ASJ’s…
Projects
September 2020
Investigation of fraud in healthcare procurement
From 2014 to 2016, Transparency International Slovakia analysed open data in procurement to investigate fraud in health care.
May 2020
Pharmaceutical Procurement
This project involved the creation of the Forum for Transparency and Accountability in Pharmaceutical Procurement which brings together various stakeholders in the health sector including the Ministry of Health, CSOs, the Public Procurement Authority and others, with the objective of monitoring pharmaceutical procurement and supply chain management and improving transparency and accountability in the health sector. It also involved the development of a Mobile Drug Tracking System and the Drug Price Index to support pharmaceutical procurement monitoring.
February 2020
Stamping out corruption in the Guatemalan health sector
The central aim was to uncover the alleged wrongdoings of corrupt government officials and health care providers.
November 2019
Open Contracting for Health (OC4H)
TI-Nepal is implementing the Open Contracting for Health (OC4H) project in Nepal in partnership with the Transparency International Health Initiative (TI-HI), the initiator of the multi-country project.
The project's goal is to improve transparency in public procurement processes and data dissemination related to the health sector. It aims to achieve this by promoting open contracting standards, electronic public procurement systems and proactive disclosure of data. The project output is expected to reduce corruption and promote transparency, integrity and accountability within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors.
November 2019
Civic Monitoring of Public Procurement in Ukraine
The project aimed to establish an automated monitoring system to track public procurement, including the spending of funds within the healthcare sector. This information would then be accessible to every patient in order to increase transparency of healthcare procurement, with the long-term goal being the improvement of service delivery quality.
Partners
Global Partners:
EBRD Eurasia Foundation Omidyar Network Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) program British Embassy in Pristina Novartis United Nations BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal Crown AgentsRegional Partners:
Governmental Institution
SME Daily
Business
NGO or Civil Society Organisation
Ministry of Health
Kyiv School of Economics
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Open Contracting Partnership
State-owned enterprise (SOE) "ProZorro"