Addressing the Role of Sustainable Public Procurement as a Panacea for Sustainable Development in the Local Government Areas: The Episode of Nigeria

Joshua Ikani Negedu

doi:10.7176/jesd/12-8-01

Abstract

The coronavirus has displaced local communities across the nation as their livelihood is compromised. This study explores extensively the challenges confronting sustainable public procurement in the local government areas that bothers sustainable development amid COVID-19. This study conducted semi-structured interviews with eight procurement experts from eight leading local government areas with documented evidence of extensive procurement activity across four geopolitical zones of Nigeria to obtain primary data. Findings from this study suggest a tremendous decline in the livelihood of the rural communities amid the pandemic and ridicule of local government procurement practice across the region. The study also finds a significant level of interference by the state government that continually denies the local government administration from attaining sustainable development compared to their counterparts in the developed societies. Keywords: Sustainable public procurement, Sustainable development, Local government areas, COVID-19, Sub-Saharan Africa – Nigeria DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-8-01 Publication date: April 30 th 2021

Highlights

Sustainable public procurement has emerged as a global leading policy paradigm that creates a critical role in promoting sustainable development in the local communities
In a similar and current understanding, sustainable public procurement addresses a process whereby organisations meet their needs for goods, services, works, and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life basis in terms of generating benefits for the organisation, and for the society and the economy, whilst minimising damage to the environment (DEFRA, 2006; UN, 2015; UNEP, 2018), cited in (Sönnichsen & Clement, 2020)
Study methodology This research uses an exploratory approach to contribute to theory building, to the role of what sustainable public procurement implies to the local communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria, amid COVID-19, and its relation to the social, economic, and environmental possibilities

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Introduction

1. Introduction Sustainable public procurement has emerged as a global leading policy paradigm that creates a critical role in promoting sustainable development in the local communities. In a similar and current understanding, sustainable public procurement addresses a process whereby organisations meet their needs for goods, services, works, and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life basis in terms of generating benefits for the organisation, and for the society and the economy, whilst minimising damage to the environment (DEFRA, 2006; UN, 2015; UNEP, 2018), cited in (Sönnichsen & Clement, 2020).

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