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Justice & public goodsPreliminary editorial review

Open Contracting Partnership

Combines procurement reform support with shared data standards and tools, including OCDS Kit, for public-interest analysis.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 83–93/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: OCDS Kit and associated contracting-data tools for civil-society monitors, analysts and public-service reform partners.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • OCDS Kit — BSD-3-Clause license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    Named repository license inspected on the review date; dependencies, data, content, trademarks and hosted services have separate terms. License-file snapshot: eaea70004b30283a213a65baf6cf153ed989b129.

License checked 2026-10-27. This is not a security audit, proof of current support or effectiveness, or a promise of free hosting. A sponsor or steward is not necessarily the sole developer. Unchecked profiles are not evidence of closed code. No extra score points are added.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Coordination · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Shared contracting formats enable actors to work with common information, while accessible analytical tools can lower barriers to public-spending scrutiny. A standard alone does not redistribute power or enforce accountability.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Procurement reform and reusable contracting-data tools

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Procurement rules, publication practices and shared analytical infrastructure target how public resources are allocated, not only a single contract.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

A shared contracting standard and international reform partnerships have broad institutional application across spending areas.

Durability

3 / 4

Institutional publication routines and procurement reforms may persist beyond a grant, subject to enforcement, political continuity and maintenance.

Scalability

3 / 4

Reusable tools reduce repeated data-processing work, but meaningful reform depends on data quality, local coalitions, capacity and public institutions.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: current marginal funding, restricted allocations, delivery capacity and the counterfactual have not been audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: open licenses, participation or contributor governance do not establish audited consequential rights for affected communities.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; primary mechanism and named repository license inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do supported reforms and data-tool use produce independently verified improvements in competition, service quality and fair access beyond suitable comparison settings?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design and license; low for systemic attribution. OCP’s procurement-reform and shared-tool design, with OCDS Kit as the checked software example; not a causal estimate for all public spending it reports influencing.

What remains uncertain

Open contracting data can be incomplete, misleading or unused; publication is not enforcement or reduced corruption. Reform attribution and indirect-impact estimates were not independently audited. OCDS Kit’s software license is distinct from website content and source-data terms.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage