How to Buy Fair
- The Fairtrade Foundation
This section of the Guide contains practical information designed to help you set up Fair Trade procurement within your public authority:
- First Steps - Preparatory acitivities which can be undertaken before tendering to improve the effectiveness of your actions, including setting up a dialogue with all relevant staff members, adopting a political commitment, and considering the possibilities of joint procurement
- Legal considerations - Responses to some typical questions on the legal framework for Fair Trade procurement
- Key principles in tendering - A summary of some of the most imprortant aspects to consider when tendering for Fair Trade products, including ensuring transparency, and choosing an appropriate definition
- Models for tendering - presenting some of the different models which public authorities can use when tendering for Fair Trade products