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Oxford POGO Club February 2025: UK Procurement Act Goes Live - Now What?

In this February 2025 session of the Oxford Procurement of Government Outcomes Club (Oxford POGO Club), we explored what the new UK Procurement Act and the very new National Procurement Policy Statement mean for public procurement in practice.

| Engaging with Evidence | Handing over the keys – outcomes-based approaches to scaling impact through Community Based Organisations

In this session, we explored a new case study on Educate Girls' Project Maitri. We examined how the use of outcomes-based contracts enabled scaling impact through community-based organisations and offered insights on supporting locally-led development.

| SOC24 | Deep Dive: Exploring outcomes funds: Evidence & lessons learnt from around the world

| SOC24 | Deep Dive: Cross-sector services in fragile settings: crisis, collaboration, and results

| SOC24 | Deep Dive: Data into evidence, and evidence into practice: putting data at the centre of decision-making

| SOC24 | Learning from the Life Chances Fund projects: impacts and ways forward

| SOC24 | Deep Dive: Disrupting the narrative: global perspectives to inspire leading outcomes practice

| SOC24 | Deep Dive: Empowering voices, bridging gaps: innovative approaches to locally-led development and cross-sector collaboration

| SOC24 | Deep Dive: The public sector in relational contracting: contracting by the People, for the People

| SOC24 | Big Picture: Beyond pilotitis: rethinking narratives and actions to institutionalise outcomes

| SOC24 | Power to People and Places: What does it take to deliver social change for a more equal Britain? In Conversation with Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester

| SOC24 | Keynote: Of Clocks and Clouds: Addressing Public Problems in the 21st Century

To kick off SOC24, we began with our keynote address by Professor Tina Nabatchi from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University.