Public Procurement and Governance

This course aimed to build capacity to a selected group of participants from The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region corresponding to policy makers and practitioners engaged in reform transformation. The course underlines the approaches for reforms, explained how to build peace through employment creation and how to attain the Social Development Goals in making procurement function an excellent tool to link between key stakeholders, policy makers and diligent procuring officers. OBJECTIVES Highlighting the selected key sectors in MENA, such as, manufacturing, renewable energies and tourism, the privileged geographical location paired with a young population, this course I’d designed to create an enabling building business skills for advancement of the most challenging issues in public procurement: sustainable procurement, digital transformation, life cycle analyses and modern procurement methods (framework agreements, dynamic purchasing, multistage methods etc) as well as creating proper environment through stockholders’ identification and engagement and effective communication. CONTENT ONLINE: 1. Procurement, Principles and the Institutional set up 2. Environment and Strategies for Public Procurement 3. Procurement process and Procurement Project management 4. Integrating Sustainability in Procurement Policy and Procedures 5. The comparative analysis of international procurement regimes 6. Assessment of the public procurement system in your country and The Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS), 2018 FACE TO FACE: Why reform PP? Economic/social benefits PP Transformation Trends Implications for reform design and effective implementation Change is Not Easy - Personal reactions to change & attention to habits Why reform PP? Emergency preparedness The Road to Change is not Straight Key Ingredients to Reforming Public Procurement: Legal and regulatory framework, Institutional management capacity, governance/transparency/integrity Third Party Procurement Monitoring: role of civil society Key Ingredients to Reforming Public Procurement. Market Engagement - Sustainable Public Procurement Leading thru Change E-procurement The Risk of the Missing Puzzle Piece Necessary components of a communication strategy for sustainable change 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 PPP and Sustainability Setting the Reforms up for Success - Crafting a Business Strategy Building a Coalition The case of UNEP’s Approach - Effectively developing an overall Action Plan Prioritization exercise for Procurement reform Stakeholders Engagements Communicating Strategically and Team Building Centralised e-procurement in Italy: The role of Consip Preparing for the Future - Strategical and practical approaches to tackling public procurement reforms OECD-MAPS as a tool - Monitoring and evaluation The OECD Experience NUMBER OF HOURS: 30