Balkan Tender Watch

The main goal of this project is to contribute to improvements in the area of public procurement in the WB countries, all aspiring to open accession negotiations in which public procurements occupy an important place. The main objective of the project is to strengthen civil society pressure upon the Western Balkans governments in establishing efficient public procurement systems and accountability in spending public funds. The project aims at increasing the understanding of EU requirements and conditions in the public procurement management, creating tools for greater CSO and other stakeholders’ involvement in decision-making and controlling the use of public funds, building regional CS public procurement monitoring mechanism and informing the process of preparing a coherent and evidence-based accession negotiations platforms regarding chapters 5, 23 and 24 between the EU and the accession countries. Our stakeholders are: Governments; ministries of finance; respective PP controlling mechanisms; procuring entities; businesses; CSOs dealing with public finance issues involved in monitoring, advocacy or watchdog activities; experts; journalists/media; EU institutions engaged in the enlargement process.