E-procurement management & monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes

Workshop on “E-procurement management & monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes”, to upgrade the capacity in the planning and execution of E-procurement activities thereby optimizing the utility and benefits of procurement funding resources as well as the ability to effectively monitor and evaluate projects’ results and benefits. OBJECTIVES The overall objective of this training activity is to reinforce the capacity of the participants in the areas of E- procurement by enhancing their efficiency in fostering transparency and wider competition in public procurement operations while adhering to the national public procurement legal framework of Pakistan in planning, tendering, evaluation and supervision of procurement contracts for the acquisition of project’s goods, works and consultancy services. The course on Monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes will enable participants to understand and differentiate between the monitoring and evaluation functions and acquire tools and techniques to process and analyse information collected to set up the project reporting function, together with a deeper awareness of different elements that form a project monitoring and evaluation system, and an extensive knowledge of the different data collection concepts and methods. CONTENT E-Procurement Management course includes the following main topics: • Introduction to Public Sector Innovation • Understanding and managing e-Procurement systems • Decision for proper investments • Technological Trajectories and recent evolutions • E-procurement under the EU approach • Country readiness and approach to E-Procurement system – case study • Dynamic Purchasing System • Framework Agreement • Reverse Auctions • E-market place • Presentation of one case study on e-procurement • Application of Procurement methods for electronic procedures • Case study on DPS • ITC Characteristics & e-procurement methods • UN experience in procuring information system • Technical Requirements • Qualification Requirements • Two Stage and alternative bids • Evaluation & QA Session Monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes course includes the following main topics: • Introduction to procurement and M&E in the project cycle • Institutional set-up • The M&E plan and the procurement plan • Practical cases and group works • The project's results chain and the theory of change • Objectives, performance indicators and external factors • Project budget and the financial plan • Activitiy-based budgeting • Progress reports (types of reporting, content, timing) • Project monitoring, control and reporting • Monitoring tools • Project evaluation: evaluation cycle and criteria • Tender evaluation and project appraisal • The evaluation cycle • Purpose of the evaluation and the evaluation criteria • Results-based management • M&E key definitions • OIM approach to project monitoring and evaluation