CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW AFRICA
The African Procurement Law Unit (APLU), Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University, is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the fourth International Conference on Public Procurement Law Africa. The Conference will be held on 11 to 12 August 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Conference Theme
The Conference theme is Public Procurement and the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: A Decade of Opportunity. The theme will address a range of critically important legal and policy issues relating to sustainable development and sustainable public procurement in Africa, in the ten year deadline to achieving the SDGs by 2030. The conference will examine the role of public procurement to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals; using public procurement to address the climate emergency in Africa, the integration between procurement and human rights issues such as modern slavery, as well as issues that present an obstacle to sustainable development such as corruption, weak institutional capacity and poor governance in the procurement context – all from a regulatory perspective. The conference will also consider the role that innovation and technology such as blockchain and AI can play in sustainable public procurement and regulatory issues pertaining to such innovation. Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in public procurement in Africa and internationally, and the conference will feature numerous papers, and workshops presentations. We are inviting abstracts for paper presentations addressing the broad conference theme in any of these particular areas:
| Sub-themes | |
| 1 | Using public procurement to address the climate emergency |
| 2 | Public procurement and human rights |
| 3 | Sustainable development and public procurement in Africa |
| 4 | Corruption, fraud and public procurement in Africa |
| 5 | Sustainable public procurement in Africa |
| 6 | Technology and sustainable public procurement |
| 7 | Innovation and public procurement in Africa |
| 8 | Health procurement and sustainable development |
| 9 | Emergency procurement and pandemics |
Note that abstract ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas but which are within the broad conference focus will also be considered.
Submit a Conference Abstract
Abstracts for the conference should be emailed to aplu@sun.ac.za and should be no more than 300 words. The deadline for submission is 30th April 2021. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 30th May 2021. Full conference papers (of no more than 10,000 words, including footnotes) and presentation slides (no more than 12 slides) should be submitted by 1st August 2021, for distribution to delegates. Please note that late abstract submissions will not be considered.
The best papers will either be published in an edited book collection (to be confirmed), or in the African Public Procurement Law Journal.
Important dates
| Event | Date |
| Abstract submission opens | 10th December 2019 |
| Abstract submission deadline | 30th April 2021 |
| Acceptance Notification | 30th May 2021 |
| Full paper submission deadline | 1st August 2021 |
Conference Details
To learn more about the conference, including speakers, session formats, venue, registration please visit www.africanprocurementlaw.org.
Inquiries should be directed to the organizers at aplu@sun.ac.za
Please note that the conference is an academic conference and we are unable to fund speaker’s participation.
Prof Geo Quinot & Prof Sope Williams-Elegbe
Conference directors