Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the following capabilities:
How to enhance public procurement systems and their workings?
• Identify the nature of various procurement systems including policy objectives, legislative and regulatory frameworks and their practice implications.
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various procurement systems
• Identify and explain general points of intervention for policy and practice improvement
How to provide evidence based policy development and practice transformation?
• Explain the concept of evidence based policy and practice development
• Identify available sources of data/information of public procurement systems
• Tools to support policy development and practice transformation
What is stakeholder identification and engagement?
• Identify the stakeholders in the various aspects of public procurement systems
• Identify and circumscribe problems and opportunities in public procurement systems
• Determine the needs, issues and influences of stakeholders
• How to engage various stakeholders in opportunity realization or problem resolution
• Sustaining stakeholder motivation and engagement in policy processes and system transformations