PPDC is a citizens organization that seeks to increase citizen participation in governance and reduce corruption. It has two flagship programs: procurement monitoring and Homevida film awards. The procurement monitoring program trains citizens to monitor government procurement processes and submit reports through an online portal. This provides transparency and accountability. It also led to legal reforms requiring independent procurement monitoring. The portal collects reports from across Nigeria on mobile devices. PPDC aims to make the portal a hub for procurement information to further engage citizens and stakeholders in governance.

1. An overview of who we are and what we do
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Procurement Innovation
at the Public and Private
Development Centre

2. Introductions – PPDC
PPDC is a citizens sector organization that seeks to increase citizens
participation in governance in a way that improves the integrity of the
public sector processes and reduces corruption.
Our Major programs at PPDC are grouped into two flagship programs :
Procurement Monitoring: Stimulating, facilitating and supporting
citizens to engage in sector specific monitoring.
Homevida: A film award platform that uses media and film
technology to drive value change across Nigeria and the African continent.
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3. The thrust of our Procurement programming 1
 Procurement is important because of the role it plays in development, the
amount of resources it consumes and its susceptibility to undue influence.
 The state of National infrastructure depend on procurement effectiveness .
 The history of public expenditure under a cloak of secrecy in Nigerian and
without significant public access and scrutiny has a direct relationship with
governance failures.
 Effective procurement monitoring therefor e contributes to reducing failures in
the procurement process that lead to project failures.
 That is why before the Nigeria n Procurement law was enacted, we sought for
the inclusion within law of a provision for independent monitoring by citizens
and professional bodies.
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4. The thrust of our Procurement programming 2
 Nigeria’s Federal procurement law currently requires all procurement
processes to be independently monitored (subject to a few exceptions where the
procurement is for National Security)
 The purpose of the monitoring provision is to ensure that procuring entities can
be held accountable for their actions and that procurement processes offer best
value for money
 However, monitoring is of little/no use if such reports are not channelled
towards improvements in the system
 That is why it was necessary to develop and deploy a central ICT mechanism,
accessible to monitors across Nigeria where reports can be submitted and
channelled to the regulators, to the media , members of parliament and other
stakeholders that can use the feedback constructively.
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5. The innovation; the Nigerian procurement portal
observatory
 The Nigerian Procurement monitoring project deployed an ICT
mechanism, known as the procurement observatory portal
 This is a robust website with free procurement monitoring training,
free legal advice for registered journalists and procurement monitors,
an information sharing platform, a mechanism for online collation and
analysis of reports of procurement monitoring, based on a standard
checklist and mass mailing list capability. (see
www.procurementmonitor.org )
 Mobile Platform – The procurement portal has a mobile version where
procurement monitors from across the country can use their mobile
phones to submit reports
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7. HOW DOES IT WORK?
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8. THE HOMEVIDA PROGRAM
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12. The Lessons from the innovation
 Citizens are the drivers of the procurement process. Technology enhances a
feedback system but content needs to be added by citizens who go out to
monitor these processes.
 Access to Procurement Information is central to the monitoring process and
we have built strategies based on the reports whereby we e take up issues
around access to information administratively and in the courts.
 The reports on the portal give us the evidence to push for increased access
both administratively, judicially, through advocacy and citizens engagement
 The portal therefore serves as a mechanism through which constructive
engagement can be developed.
 Every stakeholder has a role to play. It is about what you do with the
monitoring reports that are generated.
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13. The way forward:
Presently, we generate information and make it available
mainly to regulators and on request.
Going forward, we would like the accessible parts of the
website to contain the various descriptions of transparency
and effectiveness in Public Procurement; using graphics and
other creative means so that people start to identify much
more with the information and the portal truly becomes a hub
for sector specific information on Public procurement
practice in Nigeria. We invite the World Bank Institute to be a
part of this development.
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14. Food for thought:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed
citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that
ever has”
……..Margaret Maed
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15. Thank You for Listening
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