USAID Transparent, Effective and Accountable Municipalities activity in Kosovo is a five-year anti-corruption project, established in January 2017, that supports Kosovo municipalities in public procurement, internal audit, public financial management, and human resourc-es to ensure that processes are efficient and standardized, limiting human discretion, and increasing transparency in public procurement.

PARTNERS 

LOCAL LEVEL

• 38 Kosovo Municipalities
• Association of Kosovo Municipalities (AKM)

CENTRAL LEVEL

• Public Procurement Regulatory Commission (PPRC)
• National Audit Office (NAO)
• Procurement Review Body (PRB)
• Central Harmonization Unit (CHU)
• Ministry of Local Government Administration (MLGA)
• Ministry of Public Administration (MPA)

CIVIL SOCIETY

• BIRN,
• CIVIKOS,
• Çohu,
• Democracy Plus,
• GLPS,
• FOL,
• KDI, and
• Riinvest

BREAKTHROUGH CHANGE IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

OPENED PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS

Kosovo is the leading country in the region for publishing procurement contracts

• 24 Municipalities decided to publish contracts on their websites
• 2,895 Contracts Published in 2018 and 2019
• 12,282 public contracts avaialble to citizens on the e-procurement platform. 

New rule: All procurement contracts must be published on the e-Procurement platform.

PROMOTED ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT
All procurement activities are fully conducted through e-Procurement platform (except bid submission). In 2018:

• 12,237 Procurement activities initiated 
• 9,059 procedures with contract concluded 
• €740M total value of procurements processed on the e-Procurement platform  

Electronic bid submission SUBMIT increased significantly 
All procurement submissions go online 

ESTABLISHED AN ANTI-FRAUD UNIT
Auditors detected and sent to anti-fraud unit

• 77 cases with suspected fraud elements submitted to the Prosecutor's Office 

EMPOWERED CIVIL SOCIETY TO TRACK AND EXPOSE CORRUPTION
3,500,000 VIEWS on articles and videos that exposed malfeasance and promoted transparency in procurement during 2018 -2019. 

Launched Open Procurement Transparency Portal
Which collects complex data automatically from the e-Procurement platform and structures it in a user-friendly interface for the public. 

QUICK FACTS -  Achievements in five partner municipalities Gjakova, Gjilan, Peja, Pristina, and Vushtrri: 

• 33% reduction of unplanned procurement activities;    
• 71% reduction of cancelled procurement activities    
• 56% reduction of complaints by businesses 
• 57% Implemented audit recomandations in procurement by all municiplaities in 2019 compared to 38% in 2017