Innovative Solutions Through Public Procurement

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This chapter explores how public procurement plays a crucial role in influencing government spending on services, leading to the establishment of Citimart for experimenting with procurement processes. It highlights the shift towards addressing problems without prescribing solutions through procurement, enabling diverse ideas and smaller businesses to participate in solving social issues. The chapter also details the challenges faced by startups in influencing governments and emphasizes the importance of finding the right partners and maintaining continuous communication for successful engagement.

The second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast explores how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with governments to improve systems together.

In Episode 1 you will hear a conversation between Sascha Haselmayer, a seasoned social entrepreneur and an Ashoka Fellow who has worked with 135 municipal governments across the world to improve the provision of public services, and Olga Shirobokova, co-lead of the Systems Unit at Ashoka Globalizer.

Sascha shares how his approach to addressing a social problem has evolved over time - from being fixated on his own solution to seeing his solution as a seed or a stepping stone in a bigger story, where there is more space for co-creation and mutual support between multiple stakeholders, including government.

If you are interested to learn more about how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with government and what are the examples, we encourage you to have a lookt at our new free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/trabajo-con-el-gobierno/ (Spanish version) and www.ashoka.org/working-with-government (English version). The online course and the second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.