The Sustainable Public Procurement team at UN Environment has recently released its new flagship report: “2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement”. This report examines the state of sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and practices undertaken by national governments worldwide in the last five years. The SPP team is looking for volunteers to translate the report into Arabic.The report can be viewed and downloaded at: http://www.scpclearinghouse.org/resource/2017-global-review-sustainable-… . Shortlisted candidates may be asked to translate a short paragraph as part of the selection process. The work will ideally be split among a group of volunteers.
Background and objectives
2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement examines the state of sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and practices undertaken by national governments worldwide in the last five years. It is published in the framework of the 10YFP Sustainable Public Procurement Programme, which committed to conducting a regular review of the state of SPP implementation as part of its work plan. Building on the findings of the first edition of the Global Review published in 2013 and on research conducted between 2015 and 2016 among 41 national governments and more than 200 SPP stakeholders, the report aims to track the global progress of SPP and to deepen the collective understanding of the current barriers, needs, opportunities and innovations in SPP.
Requirements
The volunteer will have some previous translation experience from English to Arabic. The report contains some technical language in the domain of sustainable public procurement. Knowledge of this topic is an asset.
