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Promoting Poverty-Aware Procurement on Campus
Jimmy BranniganESD Consulting [email protected]
Dominic TantramTerra [email protected]
PPAPC - Agenda
What is sustainable procurement? About the project What do we mean by Poverty Aware
Procurement? What can be done? Next Steps Questions
What is sustainable procurement?
What is sustainable procurement?
“Sustainable purchasing is all about taking environmental and social factors into account in purchasing decisions. It’s about looking at what your products are made of, where they come from and who has made them”
HEPS Sustainable Purchasing Guidance – Section 1
About the projectIntended outcomes of the project are:
Develop understanding of the links between poverty and procurement;
Guidance on procurement processes that will enable poverty implications to be taken into account when procurement decisions are being made;
A review of the best means of enabling institutions to introduce the changes to procurement processes that will be needed;
Increased awareness amongst FHE as a whole and in collaborative procurement organisations of the links between poverty and procurement.
PPAPC - Outputs
Information Sheets 14 commodity areas
Guidelines Report Approaching the guidance from a poverty and issue perspective
Guidance Report A guide to ways in which these changes can be introduced in
colleges, universities and purchasing consortia Communication and dissemination
Online, workshops and video communication
About the project – Advisory Board Leeds Metropolitan University Blackpool & The Fylde College People and Planet NUS Services Limited EAUC Association of University Procurement Officers Scottish FairTrade Forum University of Manchester SNUPI Ltd The Sustainable Catering Consultancy Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC)
What do we mean by Poverty Aware Procurement?
What do we mean by Poverty Aware Procurement? In August 2008, the World Bank set a new
international poverty line defined as $1.25 a day at 2005 prices. The Bank estimated that about 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) live on less than this.
What do we mean by Poverty Aware Procurement?
“Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom”.
The World Bank
Commodities – Information Sheets Banking Oil & Gas
Beauty Paper Beverages Plastics Cleaning Seafood Clothing Steel Electronics Timber Fruit Vegetables
Brief exercise with list - blank sheets
Issue Fruit Veg. Seafood Beauty Clothing Beverages Cleaning
Dams- can displace people, disrupt fishing and water supply and upset catchment ecology
Military and arms- support or financing of military activities and materials
Human rights - Denial or interference of basic internationally recognised legal and moral rights
Indigenous peoples rights - human rights with specific emphasis on historic land rights and resource ownership
Labour conditions - employment and labour conditions internationally – hours worked, fair contracts
What can be done?
Contract management
Contract management
Tender evaluation
Tender evaluation
Supplier Selection
Supplier Selection
The specification
The specification
Identifying the need
Identifying the need
A simplified approach
A simplified approach
What can be done?
But remember: They must be relevant to the subject matter of the
contract Actions must be consistent with the EU Treaty
and the EU Public Procurement Directive Most progress can be made if poverty issues are
considered at the earliest stages of the procurement cycle
What can be done? Are poverty issues identified in your current
purchasing strategy or policy?
Are poverty issues identified as a priority by any other part of the business?
Have obligations relating to social legislation been considered?
Have you considered fair trade?
What can be done? Some of the activities that can be undertaken to enable
procurement to make a difference to poverty are as follows:
Pay levels of wages that are sufficient to live off in the country, and ensure that working conditions are not oppressive
Ensure that the company invests in development of the community within which it is operating – e.g. by providing schools, health care, housing etc
What can be done? Some of the activities that can be undertaken to enable
procurement to make a difference to poverty are as follows:
Pay a surplus to the community which is available for investment by the producer or by the community i.e. “fair trade” or equivalent
Encourage the processing or manufacturing to take place in a developing country.
Come from resources which are sustainably managed – and hence can support the community in the long term – e.g. good farming, forestry or fishing methods
Summary
Poverty is an issue we should be considering – we are not at the moment
We need more education and awareness
The PPAPC project will deliver guidance in April 2010
We hope it is of use!