Gauteng Green Public Procurement Guidelines Project 2024 2025

This page provides information about a project conducted with and on behalf of the Gauteng Department of Environment (aka for the remainder of 2024/2025 as part of the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) in order to create as policy for Gauteng a set of sustainable public procurement guidelines.

Sustainable public procurement is part of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 12.7 to be precise. 

The project is part of a partnership between Gauteng and the University of Johannesburg PEETS; Prof Jonathan Klaaren (Wits Law School & WiSER) has been contracted as project lead.  The project steering committee includes applied research institutes with links to both UJ and Wits:  GCRO and PARI.

Starting in 2022, the project developed and finalised with its steering committee a set of Green Public Procurement Guidelines (March 2024) (attached below).

In 2022-2023, the project produced a framework policy brief and two research reports: 

A Framework for Developing and Implementing Sustainable Public Procurement Policy in Gauteng (March 2023)

Gauteng Preliminary Status Quo Analysis Report (March 2023)

Literature Review for the Gauteng Sustainable Public Procurement Guidelines Project (March 2023)

On September 11 2023, Prof Klaaren presented a short paper on "Sustainable Public Procurement as a Policy Tool in South Africa" at the APLU conference in the Western Cape.

The current work of the project (e.g. during 2024/2025) is to mainstream the March 2024 guidelines across Gauteng Province.