Driving change through public procurement: A toolkit on human rights for policy makers and public buyers
This Toolkit explores how public procurement policy makers, buyers & contract managers can implement requirements that suppliers respect human rights. It is designed to be a practical tool highlighting a range good practice examples and first steps that can be taken.
This toolkit is structured as follows:
The introduction addresses why we are talking about human rights in the context of public procurement.
Chapter B is primarily designed for public procurement planners and policy makers and
- Explains the legal basis for states to include requirements within public procurement that actual and potential suppliers respect human rights;
- Explains how to frame human rights as a policy objective;
- Identifies what system-wide planning is necessary to include requirements that actual and potential suppliers respect human rights.
Chapter C is primarily designed for public procurers and contract managers undertaking procurement exercises and:
- Explains how requirements that suppliers respect human rights can be included at each stage of the procurement process and provide examples of how this has been done in practice;
- Highlights the advantages and limitations of including requirements that suppliers respect human rights at the different stages of the procurement process.
