Choosing to challenge for International Women s Day, 8 March
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Choosing to challenge for International Women s Day on 8 March
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Humanitarian aid. Credit Jon Tyson.
The biggest study of its kind has proven the link between local political context and the risk that humanitarian aid money is lost to corruption. The study also provides reassurance that the controls that donors may insist upon can be effective at preventing money going astray.
The paper “Controlling Corruption in Development Aid: new evidence from contract-level data” is published in the Studies in Comparative International Development journal. It is authored by Liz David-Barrett and Ciara McCorley from the University of Sussex, Mihaly Fazekas and Lili Márk from the Central European University, Hungary, and Olli Hellmann from University of Waikato, New Zealand. The study provides the strongest evidence yet that reforming public procurement to protect aid money is a cornerstone in stemming corruption in development aid.
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The logistics company Uniserve is not a household name but it has received the highest total value of Covid contracts from the the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) without a tender.
Earlier this year, the government suspended normal procurement and sourcing practice in the the rush to supply the NHS with the personal protective and medical equipment (PPE) it needed.
To date, over 8,600 contacts have been awarded worth £18 billion.
The government awarded £777 million of contracts to Uniserve, a transport company based in Essex, without offering other companies the chance to bid for them.
On March 30, the DHSC awarded Uniserve a 12 month contract worth £473 million to provide freight services for the supply of PPE and medical equipment .