Scaling up the Digital Procurement Application for CDD: SOL Project

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Community-driven development (CDD) is an approach to development that emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources. In Brazil, current World Bank financing includes five "Full CDD Project" tagged operations and two "CDD or sub-component" tagged ones for a total of US$838.8 million. However, it is widely recognized that one of the major challenges for the successful implementation of CDD projects is the communities’ capacity to carry out procurement.SOL is a system that covers all procurement steps for CDD projects from advertising to signing contracts in only a few clicks. The app can be used to prepare, create, and launch tenders to procure goods, works, and services. With translation and further customizations to implement the internationalization of the SOL, the app can be replicated in any other CDD projects that rely on community-led procurement.To achieve this, the project will have a single component aiming at further customizing, upgrading, and internationalizing SOL, and the following activities are being proposed to be implemented through the procurement of consulting and non-consulting services: (i) To make required modifications to implement the internationalization of the application; (ii) To implement enhancements to the MVP version for better user experience (UX) and easier customization and installation by other users; (iii) To translate the application into a Bank’s official language (possibly French); and (iv) To foster the growth of the sharing community in GitHub, by setting out an outreach program and professionally managing the GitHub community, including the preparation of a comprehensive governance framework. This component will also support project management activities.