Assessment of Sustainable Public Procurement in the Kyrgyz Republic

The main goal of the United Nations Development Account project “Enhancing sustainable public procurement for the regional transition to inclusive green economy in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)” (UNDA project on SPP) is to strengthen the potential of selected countries in the EECCA region (including in the Kyrgyz Republic) for sustainable public procurement (SPP) and strengthen the capacity of business to respond to public tenders with sustainability criteria. This PDC report is devoted to the study of international and country experience in implementing SPP, as well as to the analysis of political, legal, regulatory and institutional gaps in Kyrgyzstan to include sustainability criteria in the procurement process and provide recommendations on how to address them.