PPI Start-Up Meeting – July 2010

The Asia Pacific Procurement Partnership Initiative (PPI) is holding a Meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 28-30 July 2010.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently approved the PPI, a regional capacity development technical assistance which aims to develop a platform for exchange of best practices in procurement among public officials, procurement practitioners (both public and private [...]

OECD-DAC Task Force on Procurement Meeting

The OECD-DAC Task force on Procurement meeting conducted on 3-5 May 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together more than 100 participants from public procurement authorities around the world as well as procurement experts from development partner organizations such as the Asian Development Bank.

Documentation relating to the meeting as well as future updates on meeting summaries [...]

Capacity Assessment Tools

There are many methods for assessing procurement capacity. At least in the health sector, there are three mothers of all  other toolkits: (a) OECD’s Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement Systems, (b) World Bank’s Assessment of Agency’s Capacity to Procure Health Sector Goods, and (c) Global Fund’s (GF) Procurement and Supply Management Assessment Tool. Despite [...]