Practice: citizens can access results & procurement contracts related documents

QoG code: aii_q26

Sub-score (0-100). Question no. 26. In practice, citizens can access the results and documents associated with procurement contracts (full contract, proposals, execution reports, financial audits, etc.).

A 100 score is earned where all the following conditions are met:
1) there is an archive containing full records of all procurement contracts, whether in a central government office or at each contracting institution, and
2) full records are readily available on or off line for scrutiny by journalists, auditors, competitors and any citizen who request them.

A 50 score is earned where any of the following conditions apply:
1) there is an archive but it doesn't contain complete records of all procurement contracts, whether in a central government office or at each contracting institution, and
2) full records are not readily available, both online and offline, for scrutiny by journalists, auditors, competing contractors, and any citizen who requests them.

A 0 score is earned where at least one of the following conditions apply:
1) there's no archive containing full records of all procurement contracts, whether in a central government office or at each contracting institution, or
2) full records are rarely or never available on/off line for scrutiny by journalists, auditors, competitors or any citizen who request them.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-09-25
Last updated by source
2024-05-28
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 53
Standard time-series 53
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2013-2023

Country coverage

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  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2013 to 2023.