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Year: 2024
Published in: YouTube
Cited as: “Putting social procurement into practice” YouTube, uploaded by @EuclidNetwork, 8 January 2025, https://youtu.be/oOaEAsI6Pqc
Subject
Putting social procurement into practice
Abstract
In this eighth episode of Season 2 of The Social Economist, our third mini-series continues! We’re excited to be talking about the topic of social procurement – specifically about what can be done to put social procurement into practice in the context of a local government. In this second episode of this mini-series, host Toby Gazeley from Euclid Network is joined by Rein Douma from the Municipality of The Hague in the Netherlands to understand how social enterprises are being engaged through procurement. Toby and Rein cover many of the key areas, discussing the various dimensions of social procurement as well as the potential for social procurement to provide work integration opportunities in a local context. Rein highlighted the importance of collaboration between different departments in local authorities, understanding the trade-offs in prioritising different outcomes. Rein also noted the importance of building the capacity of social enterprises and the need to look well into the future to prepare the ecosystem and procurement opportunities in tandem to ensure maximum impact. Social Return in the Netherlands was also highlighted as a significant policy as well as various Acts on public procurement, such as Procurement Act 2.82. Rein also highlighted the benefit of local networks of social entrepreneurs for supporting the roll-out of social procurement. In this case, this is Social Club Den Haag.
