Gender, Vulnerability Theory and Public Procurement

S.N. Nyeck is Associate Professor of African Studies, Political Economy, Gender, and Queer Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, and Adjunct Professor at CriSHET Mandela University, South Africa.

• List of Contributors Acronyms Introduction S.N. NYECK1 The Challenge of Knowing: Public Procurement Between Unilateral Knowledge Dissemination and Participatory Knowledge Creation E.K. SARTER2 Law and Public Procurement in Kenya: A Human Vulnerability Analysis ATIENO MBOYA3 Gender Justice in Public International Organizations’ Procurement Work: A Contrasted View EMILIE COMBAZ4 Growth Pattern in Women-Owned Construction Companies as Evidence of Vulnerability ABIMBOLA WINDAPO5 Contracted Vulnerability?: Job Quality, Service Quality, and Public Procurement of Services E.K. SARTER AND ORLY BENJAMIN6 The Case for Gender-Responsive Public Procurement in Botswana EMMANUEL BOTLHALE7 Gender-Responsiveness of Public Procurement and Tendering Policies in Kenya GEDION ONYANGO AND MARYGORETTY AKINYI OTIENO8 Policy Perspectives on Engendering Public Procurement in Africa: The Case of Rwanda and South Africa ANGELITA KITHATU-KIWEKETE AND SHIKHA VYAS-DOORGAPERSAD9 Vulnerability in Higher Education: The Case of Managerialism in Cleaning Services Procurement in Israel ORLY BENJAMIN10 The Paradox of Equity in Public Procurement Policies: A Vulnerability Analysis of Jordan WA’ED ALSHOUBAKIIndex