Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean

The document outlines a transition from administrative to strategic public procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting four regional case studies and ten essential components for reform to support sustainable development.

• The document identifies four regional best practices where public procurement was used to achieve specific social and economic goals: contracting with micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the Dominican Republic, supporting family agriculture in Paraguay, promoting the triple-impact economy in Argentina, and advancing gender equality in Chile.
• The paper proposes ten key ingredients for strategic public procurement reform for sustainable development: defining policy priorities, conducting evidence-based assessments, building capacity for agencies and suppliers, utilizing technology and digitization, establishing an enabling legal framework, ensuring leadership beyond traditional authority, fostering interagency and multistakeholder collaboration, treating reform as a continuous learning process, gaining knowledge of supplier offerings, and implementing a communication strategy.

APA

Ruete,, L. C. (2020). Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/publications/toward-strategic-public-procurement-latin-america-and-caribbean

Chicago

Ruete,, Liesbeth Casier,Marina. Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2020. https://www.iisd.org/publications/toward-strategic-public-procurement-latin-america-and-caribbean.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ruete2020toward, author = {Ruete,, Liesbeth Casier,Marina}, title = {{Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2020}, month = jun, url = {https://www.iisd.org/publications/toward-strategic-public-procurement-latin-america-and-caribbean}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }