Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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  • URBACT GenProcure present at the Procura+ conference

    URBACT GenProcure at the Procura+ conference

     

    The GenProcure Network is in the process of developing Integrated Action Plans for each of the nine partner cities. Gender Responsive Public Procurement is a strategic approach that aims to create synergies between two seemingly disparate worlds: gender equality and public procurement. The GenProcure network seeks to promote specific training, awareness-raising actions, and public procurement processes that include social criteria, most notably around addressing inequality. The network aims to change the culture surrounding these two topics.

     

    Edgar Azevedo

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  • Vila Nova de Famalicão - Core Meeting 1

    Nine cities to link issues of public procurement and gender equality

    The GenProcure Action Planning Network (APN) is focused on the thematic topic of Gender Responsive Public Procurement. Over the next two years and until December 2025, it will seek to support nine partner cities to develop Integrated Action Plans (IAPs) that enable gender equality to be a key consideration in Public Procurement. Public Procurement is the process utilised by public authorities, including local municipalities and regional governments, to spend money on the goods, services and works that they require to function effectively. Public procurement spreads from the design of goods and services to the tendering of opportunities to the monitoring of outputs and outcomes.

     

    Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson

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