Public Procurement and Gender Equality : its impact on women in the Security Sector in Serbia
Public Procurement and Gender Equality : its impact on women in the Security Sector in Serbia

Author(s): Aurelijan Djan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, Labor relations, Economic policy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Politics and Identity, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Public procurement systems; Gender perspectives in procurement; Security sector procurement; Human rights; Underrepresentation of women; Gender-sensitive statistics;
Summary/Abstract: Despite the fact that public procurement systems in general bear a substantial impact on any given country’s economy, and, subsequently, on the everyday lives of their respective citizens, the social dimension of Serbia’s own public procurement system has been left neglected. Albeit that Serbia’s 2012 Public Procurement Law presents a positive step in its continuous effort to reform public procurement, the fact still remains that Serbia’s professional and academic community, as well as other parties involved in this process, have focused solely on the economic role of public procurements in terms of “procuring goods, services or labour assignments”.1 The result has been a serious lack of attention paid to the due impact of public procurements on social categories as a whole. Bearing in mind that gender perspectives are relevant to all sectors of society, it is important to understand how gender patterns differently affect the organization, implementation, and realization of public procurements as well as the consequences they produce. In this same unique regard, this paper takes as its focus public procurement in Serbia’s security sector in order to better understand the impact public procurements have on both women and men.

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