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The MAPS Initiative

The MAPS Initiative

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What is MAPS?
The MAPS Secretariat
MAPS partners
MAPS financing partners 2024-2026
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What is MAPS?

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The Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) is the globally recognised tool that assesses public procurement systems in their entirety. It is universal and can be used in any country, regardless of income level or development status.

By showing what works and what does not, MAPS can support more efficient reforms for better public procurement systems. MAPS is based on objective and comprehensive indicators that assess legislation, regulation, policies, institutional framework, management capacity, market practices, and the anti-corruption and integrity framework related to public procurement.

MAPS was originally created by a joint initiative of the World Bank and the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in 2003. The methodology has been kept up to date to reflect the latest developments in public procurement.

The MAPS Secretariat

The MAPS Secretariat, which is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, handles five main workstreams:

Quality assurance of MAPS assessments
Promotion of MAPS
Maintenance of MAPS
Documentation of the use of MAPS and lessons learned
Training for users and stakeholders and certification of assessors

Get in touch with the MAPS Secretariat by sending an email to contact@mapsinitiative.org

MAPS Partners

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At the heart of the MAPS Initiative is the MAPS Network. This is a group of countries and institutions that have a particular interest in the MAPS – either because they have supported applying the methodology or have been assessed with it. Many of them were involved in the revision of the methodology between 2015 and 2018.

The MAPS Steering Committee supervises the work of the MAPS Secretariat. Its members are the financiers of the Secretariat (“MAPS Partners”) and several representatives of the MAPS Network.

The Assessment Technical Advisory Group (ATAG) is a group of experts that reviews the MAPS assessments from a technical perspective to ensure even quality of individual assessments. An ATAG is formed from for each assessment specifically. The ATAG's key responsibilities are described in the infographic available on the left.