Procurement and supplier diversity in the 2012 Olympics

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Mainstreaming business support targeted at disadvantaged communities

This Report aims to lay the foundations for criteria which can be used to assess the feasibility of mainstreaming targeted business support initiatives. This will require first, a ground clearing exercise on the concept of mainstreaming, and second, an assessment of these characteristics when applied to five case studies which have experienced some form of mainstreaming. This literature and empirical based approach should help in establishing criteria for gauging the appropriateness and viability of targeted initiatives for mainstreaming. The report then draws on interviews with representatives from four sub-national mainstream bodies in order to understand how initiatives for disadvantaged groups and areas are developed

Access to Public Procurement by Ethnic Minority Firms: Some Evidence from London

This paper represents some initial findings from an ongoing project concerned with supplier diversity. The paper aims to contribute to the policy debate concerning the use of public by ethnic minority enterprises and small firms in the UK, based on recent experience on the ground with local authorities in London. It is recognised at a national policy level that public procurement contracts represent a potential opportunity for small firms and BAMEs, seeking to break into new markets, although the evidence base of experience of public procurement officers on the ground is limited. As far as black and ethnic minority firms are concerned, increased access to procurement contracts represents an opportunity to diversify into higher value added activity than the retailing and catering establishments, which traditionally have accounted for a high proportion of BAME activity in Britain. The first part of the paper comprises a review of the existing evidence base with respect to the barriers experienced by small firms in seeking to access procurement contracts, together with the UK policy context. The primary research evidence on which the project is based was gathered in London, the West Midlands and the East of England between November 2006-June 2007 (consisting of a total of approximately 50 in-depth interviews), of the procurement practice and experience of a selection of local authorities and other public bodies. Since empirical data gathered in the West Midlands and East of England is still being analysed, this paper focused on the evidence from London. The procurement practices and policies and practices of 14 public bodies in London are analysed, with a classification presented based on diversity activities. Preliminary conclusions and policy implications are also included

Attitude Toward Enterprise Test: adaptation to Spanish (ATE-S)

Ministerio de Economía y Competitivida

Dialogue across Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems reflecting on the IPBES Assessment on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production

The Dialogue across Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems reflecting on the IPBES Assessment on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production report presents the main outcomes of a Dialogue across Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems that revisited and reflected on the key messages derived from the Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The Dialogue was hosted from the 21st to the 25th of January 2019 by the Karen community of Hin Lad Nai, Chiang Rai, Thailand, and it was co-convened and jointly designed by the Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT) and Pgakenyaw Association for Sustainable Development (PASD) together with SwedBio at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and UNESCO Natural Science Sector

The challenge of supplier diversity: the case of the London 2012 Olympics

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Procurement and supplier diversity in the London 2012 Olympic Games

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