Sustainable Procurement Criteria Database (SPCD) of the Sustainable Procurement Working Group, September 2023

The Sustainable Procurement working group of the Réseau Environnement Humanitaire (REH) has developped an updated version of the field-oriented ‘Sustainable Procurement Criteria Database’ (SPCD). This tool offers a list of sustainable procurement criteria (environmental and social criteria) on 30 goods and service categories and is available in English, French, and Spanish.

The objective of the tool is to be collaborative that will be adjusted and updated upon receiving user recommendations and feedback. It is open for feedback (in French, English and Spanish)

Following the initial feedback received during the FR and EN collaborative workshops, the WG has incorporated the comments received and is proposing a new, updated version of the tool in July 2024.

This new version contains in summary:

• 19 cross-functional product-services criteria: new, more precise criteria on reparability, end-of-life management and packaging (JI feedback).
• 25 cross-functional supplier criteria: new criteria on women’s empowerment and inclusiveness
• 25 detailed markets including recycling and waste management (in collaboration with WREC)

For programme articles, the tool refers to partners’ resources:

• Green procurement specifications – by sector, WREC
• Circular product purchasing tool, WREC
• List of durability specifications for more than 40 categories of articles, ICRC

Tutorial videos are available in all three languages here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the WG at: sustainableprocurement@environnementhumanitaire.org

NB : The group is made up of the following NGOs : Oxfam Intermón, Action contre la Faim, Humanité et Inclusion, Médecins du Monde France, Première Urgence Internationale, Acted, Croix Rouge Française, Solidarité internationale, Triangle génération humanitaire et Bioforce.