Procurement Reform, Capacity Building and Political Economy

The Political Economy of Public Procurement Reform is a ten-paged document published by the Anti-Corruption Resource Center or U4 Helpdesk of the Transparency International (mchene@transparency.org) and published last June 16, 2009. The paper looked at Political Economy in relation to Procurement Reform and Capacity Building from a developing country perspective.It feeds into and improve the [...]

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 [...]