Finance: Alternatives for use outside PPPs

[jpmckinney]

The financeType.csv codelist should have options for public/government funding and for donor funding. If the donor is known to be a bilateral or multilateral organization, then those codes can be used, but if not, we need a more generic code.

@duncandewhurst: Can you provide feedback on these proposed changes?

[jpmckinney]

Related: https://github.com/open-contracting-extensions/european-union/issues/20

[jpmckinney]

There are several fields specific to PPP arrangements (e.g. stepInRights). We can consider instead a new extension, which might introduce a 'superclass' of the Finance object, with fewer properties. (Alternately, we can name the new definition Finance, and have the existing extension extend it….)

[duncandewhurst]

A similar need came up in Belarus where the following additional fields were added:

Field	Definition	Notes
tender/funds	Tender may be hold using budget or own funds
contracts/funds	Contract may be signed with budget or own funds used	Possible values: Budget -- state funds, Own -- non-state funds (money from individual business)

Helpdesk feedback was to provide this information in planning/budget/description

[duncandewhurst]

Noting that the finance extension was designed to represent individual financing agreements related to funding a PPP project (my understanding is that basically means funding arrangements for the company set up for the project), hence why few of the other fields in the finance extension are applicable to the use case of describing whether the funding for a procurement is from public, private or donor funds.

On that basis I think we should also consider whether a simple codelist field added to either planning/budget, tender and/or contract would be a better solution that adapting the finance extension.

[duncandewhurst]

Belarus actually has more detail than stated above on the finance source for contracts, with the following codelist for financeSource, separate to the funds codelist:

• Foreign government loans
• State extrabudgetary fund
• State Trust Budget Fund
• Innovation Fund
• Other means
• Source not defined
• Bank loans
• Loans exempted from the budget
• Local budget
• Republican budget
• Own funds of budgetary organizations
• Own funds of state organizations and households. societies
• Union budget
• Own funds
• Republican budget
• Local budget
• State Trust Budget Fund
• State extrabudgetary fund
• Foreign government loans
• Foreign loans raised under guarantees of the Government of the Republic of Belarus
• Loans of banks of the Republic of Belarus, issued under the guarantees of the Government of the Republic of Belarus
• Credits of the banks of the Republic of Belarus issued under the guarantees of the regional and Minsk city executive committees
• Other sources
• Funds allocated for financing forest management

[jpmckinney]

Seems like we might use a pattern like financeType and financeTypeDetails.

[yolile]

We should also add an example of how to use the extension for a process outside PPPs and in the planning section. (CRM-7129)