International Orientation and Guidance Workshop

On 13-14 September the Joint Venture for Procurement hosted an international orientation and guidance workshop for the partner countries who have agreed to use the Joint Venture's procurement assessment methodology as part of the 2008 field survey exercise.

The key objectives of the workshop were the following:

• Raise the awareness of participants about  the assessment methodology in the context of Millennium Development Goal 8 (Develop further an open rules-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system), the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the ongoing work of the OECD-DAC Joint Venture.
• Provide participants with a working level of familiarity with the methodology and its application.
• Provide guidance and share experiences of other countries in planning and implementing the application exercise.

DOCUMENTS

• Workshop programme
• Practical exercise – scoring benchmarking and assessment methodology v.4
• Case Study: Supporting a government-led process of procurement reforms in Syldavia
• Practical exercise on creating a prioritized strategy based on benchmarking data
• List of participants

PRESENTATIONS

• Linking Assessment to Procurement Capacity Development
• Overview: The Assessment Exercise and the Methodology version 4
• Context: Globalisation and Trade / Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness / Strengthening Country Procurement Systems
• Assessment Exercise Key Objectives and Expected Outputs
• Managing for Development Results and Performance Measurement