Training Program on Procurement Policy and Capacity Building for Lebanese Procurement Experts

The course has been envisaged into a two macro areas of interventions namely topics related to i) Public Procurement Management and Good Governance and ii) Training methodology and Techniques, where both areas feed and reinforce one another. More specifically, macro area 1 focused in the Public procurement key reform elements including sustainable, green and electronic procurement as necessary tools for greening the economy, paving the way to macro area 2, that dealt with effective training design and the use of innovative training techniques both functional to foster the right attitude for change and effective contribution. OBJECTIVES 1. Participants have been introduced to the latest approaches, internationally recognized good practices of a sound and effective public procurement system and an efficient reform’s implementation process. 2. Participants have been exposed to the recent developments related to public procurement globally from a policy and governance perspective. 3. It has been demonstrated how a structured and high-quality capacity building process could drive successfully the change and consequently reform’s results. 4. Participants have been exposed to the recent development and good practices in training engineering and training techniques that serve professionalization in public procurement, in light of the ITCILO experience (latest used methodologies, approaches, techniques and tools). CONTENT • Designing Effective Training Content: Principles of Assessment and Development • The Trainer's Attitude: Fostering Ethos and Motivation for Change • Innovative Training Techniques: From Gamification to Technology Integration • Embracing Change: Understanding Personal Reactions and Habits • Key Ingredients to Reforming Public Procurement: Legal and regulatory framework Institutional management capacity, governance/transparency/integrity Market Engagement • Institutional Set-up: The role of the procurement policy unit in public procurement reform • Public procurement professionalization: PP transformation necessitating an attitude change and competent decision makers • Sustainable Public Procurement • Prioritization exercise for Procurement reform Stakeholders Engagements • PP Transformation Trends Implications for reform design and effective implementation: Risk evaluation, matrix and risk response, Best Value for Money • Life Cycle Cost: a tool for better value • PP through Training techniques and tools • Framework Agreements as flexible tools for demand aggregation • Selecting the appropriate model of Framework Agreement • PP Transformation Trends Implications for reform design and effective implementation: Risk evaluation, matrix and risk response, Best Value for Money • Centralised e-procurement in Italy: The role of Consip E procurement, Innovation and Sustainability E -Purchasing and Negotiation tools Demo for e-system Setting up a community of practice in public procurement