How to use public procurement for more sustainable municipalities?
The webinar took place on 2 March 2022. Some of the main challenges Nordic municipalities face when implementing sustainable public procurement are time, resources as staff and competencies, and good tools.
To succeed with sustainable public procurement, speakers emphasized the importance of thinking about long-term effects and approaching not sustainable public procurement as the goal in itself, but as a means to reach the municipalities' goals.
The best advice from the speakers was:
• to collaborate with other public institutions f.x. neighbouring municipalities or via national networks with other public procurers to share resources and gain larger consumer power
• to have strong political leadership and a strategy to steer the work
• to communicate the efforts that are done to increase motivation in the organization and among citizens. Share the good stories.
• start slowly!
• be concrete. Specify what is meant with sustainable public procurement and include as many SDGs as possible
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