Who we are

The International Learning Lab on Public Procurement and Human Rights and the International Working Group on Ethical Public Procurement have come together to provide a hub for public buyers, policy makers, procurement practitioners and scholars. The hub enables information and best practice sharing on socially responsible public procurement. It also provides a platform to explore collaborations that promote public procurement policy as a tool for social sustainability and the protection of human rights.

The International Learning Lab on Public Procurement and Human Rights was created in 2013 and worked for a decade through the collaboration of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, the Harrison Institute for Public Law at Georgetown University, the University of Notthingahm, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Business, Human Rights and the Enviornment (BHRE), University of Greenwich. It is currently coordinated by Professor Olga Martin-Ortega and Dr. Laura Trevino-Lozano at the BHRE.  

The International Working Group on Ethical Public Procurement (IWGEPP) is a collaboration of representatives from over 40 public contracting authorities, public buyer representative groups, governmental bodies, academia, multi-stakeholder initiatives and NGOs from several countries, formed in 2011. Its mission is to work towards socially responsible public procurement becoming the norm and integrated part of public procurement processes in countries around the world.