Farid Yaker
Programme Officer
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has been active in the promotion of Sustainable Public Procurement at national, regional and global levels since 2005.
Global action
- Data collection for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.7.1 Indicator.
- One Planet Programme on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)
- See 2013 and 2017 Global Review of SPP.
- See the second edition of SPP Guidelines (2021) and Terms of references/questionnaires for the main activities.
Promotion of regional cooperation in the field of Sustainable or Green Public Procurement
- Asia Pacific Green Public Procurement (GPP) Network (2020-2022)
- Compras Sostenibles is an online platform dedicated to SPP implementation in Latin America.
Country-level capacity-building and policy-making support
Assistance provided to member states in SPP policy development/implementation
- EU4Environment project (2019-2022): Assistance provided to Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia in SPP policy development, SPP implementation and capacity building.
- OECS - UNEP Project (2020-2021): Support to Grenada, Antigua y Barbuda and Dominica in the sustainable procurement of construction materials.
- Support provided to national states in SPP policy development/implementation (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, India and Senegal), in partnership with other international organizations.
- Find a list of outputs produced by the countries supported by UNEP since 2009 here.
