RESOURCE / PUBLIC SOURCE RECORD
Procurement for Change
- Seminar/workshop held 22 October 2024, 14:00–17:00 (GMT+01:00), Crowne Plaza Geneva, Switzerland. Organiser: Innovation Norway. Partners: Business Tampere; Business Turku; Dansk Industri; Global Platform for Action; Mercy Corps; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark; Tinkr AS; and Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Contact: Ragnhild Nauste (ragnhild.nauste@innovasjonnorge.no). No participation fee or attendee list shown.
- Focus: using humanitarian procurement as a strategic route to innovation, environmental transition and stronger communities. Page estimates procurement consumes about two-thirds of humanitarian budgets. The workshop addressed obstacles to private-sector investment/solutions in humanitarian settings, barriers to humanitarian organisations buying innovations, and better partnership models. It combined talks and practical exercises for private-sector and humanitarian participants, seeking collaborative, innovation-friendly, sustainable procurement that improves value for money and response effectiveness.
- Programme (GMT+01:00): 14:00 welcome (Therese Marie Uppstrøm Pankratov); 14:05 keynote (Vanessa Mwangale); 14:15 procurement as a strategic change tool (Kristian Wengen); 14:25–14:55 panel on procurement’s role in achieving goals (Ignazio Matteini, Lorena Muñoz Carmona, Mark Gibson and Marie Gad Hansen); 14:55 break; 15:10–16:20 Greening Camp X case exercise; 16:20–16:50 panel on innovative/sustainable humanitarian responses and procurement (Sarah Louise Teschl, Jeanette Fogstad, Petri Virtanen, Vanessa Mwangale and Andrea Ranzanici); 16:50 closing (Rebecca Lewin). ESG and responsible-business due-diligence conditions applied.