The case study details the use of the SOURCE platform to strengthen Ukraine's capacity for sustainable infrastructure.
Due to the global urgency of deploying sustainable infrastructure projects at scale, in 2019, SOURCE’s multilateral development bank (MDB) partners initiated a new strategy to increase the platform’s impact by integrating SOURCE at the national level. This strategy aims to operationalize and customize SOURCE according to countries’ regulatory frameworks and project development processes. This level of integration enables user access across national agencies involved in preparation, procurement and management of infrastructure projects. SOURCE is a free tool for governments thanks to the ongoing support from MDBs. Efforts were undertaken to integrate SOURCE into developing economies in Europe.
In 2018, Ukraine expressed its interest in using the SOURCE platform to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), one of the MDBs supporting SOURCE development. Ukraine at that point was building a coherent and effective institutional and legal environment conducive to implementing Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and improving the overall process of public infrastructure delivery. Government representatives raised some concerns about the government’s capacity and the quality of project proposals, the enforcement of project appraisal and selection processes, and identification of suitable models of delivery, financing, contract management, monitoring and quality control.
The Ukrainian government was interested in using an innovative, data-centric and efficient tool to help with infrastructure project preparation. The conditions were ripe for using the SOURCE platform given Ukraine’s infrastructure needs and its interest in advancing its digitalization agenda – which had already seen success with its official e-procurement system named Prozorro. This technical collaboration, supported by EBRD, was designed to integrate SOURCE into Ukraine’s national infrastructure strategy.
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