Gender Based Analysis of the Access to Public Procurement in Western Balkan by SMEs
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The subject of research is access by SMEs to public procurement in Western Balkan region including a gender equality perspective. The key objectives of the paper are: to identify key barriers that make it difficult to engage in public procurement; to determine whether there are differences in the perception of the importance of barriers to inclusion in public procurement between male and female-owned companies; and to check whether there are differences in the perception of the importance of barriers to participation in public procurement between different-sized companies. Results show that there are no significant differences in the perception of the importance of barriers to participation in public procurement between male and female-owned companies. Also, different-sized companies have a similar perception of the importance of barriers to participation in public procurement.
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OECD/ETF/EU/EBRD (2019). SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2019: Assessing the Implementation of the Small Business Act for Europe, SME Policy Index, OECD Publishing, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1787/g2g9fa9a-en
OECD (2018). SMEs in Public Procurement: Practices and Strategies for Shared Benefits, OECD Public Governance Reviews, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264307476-en
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Public procurement office Serbia (2016). Guidelines for increasing the participation of small and medium enterprises in public procurement procedures. Retrieved from: http://www.ujn.gov.rs/dokumenti/analiticka-dokumenta/
UN Women (2017a). Manual the power of procurement: how to source from women-owned businesses corporate guide to gender-responsive procurement.
UN Women (2017b). Gender Responsible Budgeting (GRB) - a new practice and legal obligation in the public financial management system in the Republic of Serbia.
UN Women (2019). Gender Responsible Budgeting - Introduction of Gender Responsible Budgeting in the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved from: https://www.undp.org/content/dam/unct/serbia/docs/Publications/UNW_GRB_%202019_SRB%20_layout%20DIGITAL.pdf