West Africa Open Contracting Assessment Project

In 2016-2017, DG and the Open Contracting Partnership spent several months studying open contracting readiness across West Africa. Working with the support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK), we have published a series of open contracting scoping studies that provide comprehensive overviews of our findings.

Country reports aimed at assessing open contracting readiness:

Below is the Synthesis Report highlighting practical steps for encouraging open contracting implementation in these 5 countries and in Côte d’Ivoire, and an analysis of the view of the public markets in the 5 assessment countries from British and international businesses interests, conducted by IBLF Global.