Advancing social goals through public procurement
How can governments promote employment opportunities for people with disabilities?
SRPP strives for public contracting that creates opportunities for decent jobs, social and professional inclusion and better conditions for disabled and disadvantaged people.
73% of the 66 surveyed businesses declared that they didn’t employ persons with disabilities.
A large number of contracting authorities suffer from insufficient managerial accountability, insufficient quality control and limited contract management capacity.
Gresa Smolica
Gresa Smolica is a doctoral candidate at Freie Universität Berlin researching varieties and regimes of public procurement. She also leads Re-ACT Lab, a regional think tank based in Prishtina. She completed her master’s degree in data science for public policy at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research mainly focuses on policy design and applying data science methods for more informed policy-making.
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