This document will also contribute to the implementation of the Global Compact principles in United Nations procurement practices by addressing the issue of corporate social responsibility, environmental and sustainable procurement and corruption.

Requests the Secretary General to encourage all the organizations of the United Nations system, consistent with their respective mandates, to further improve their procurement practices, inter alia, by participating in the United Nations Global Marketplace with a view to creating one common United Nations global procurement web site

Resources from Governments and development partners will be leveraged by providing procurement services that combine the global procurement and field office operational capabilities of UNICEF, ensuring effectiveness of in country logistics (see also chapter V).

27. Requests the Secretary General to continue to encourage all the organizations of the United Nations system, consistent with their respective mandates, to further improve their procurement practices, inter alia, by participating in the United Nations Global Marketplace with a view to creating one common United Nations global procurement website

Once the common procurement management system has been developed, the exchange of data will be possible on a real time basis via the Internet, giving further efficiencies and better oversight of the Secretariat's global procurement activities.

General description Procurement provides essential services in support of all UNIDO technical cooperation programmes, and global forum and post crisis activities.

In supply operations in 2004, the value of UNICEF global procurement amounted to 802 million (excluding freight), a 15 per cent increase over 2003.

15. Notes the promotion by the Procurement Division of the voluntary principles of the corporate social responsibility initiative, the Global Compact, within the United Nations procurement framework, and requests the Secretary General, as appropriate, to report to the General Assembly for further consideration

Notes the promotion by the Procurement Service of the voluntary principles of the corporate social responsibility initiative, the Global Compact, into the United Nations procurement framework, and requests the Secretary General, as appropriate, to report to the General Assembly for further consideration

Notes the promotion by the Procurement Service of the voluntary principles of the corporate social responsibility initiative, the Global Compact, into the United Nations procurement framework, and requests the Secretary General, as appropriate, to report to the General Assembly for further consideration

(h) Report of the Secretary General on the analysis of establishing a global procurement hub for all peacekeeping missions in Brindisi, Italy (A 59 703)

Partnerships with global funds, UNAIDS, UNFPA, WHO, the World Bank and regional banks will be consolidated to address both technical and procurement supply management issues.

The Global Fund and the World Bank to complete piloting of joint financial management and procurement assessments, and joint programmatic and financial reporting by December 2005.

Beyond its direct financial contribution, UNICEF also provided procurement services for immunization and worked with such mechanisms as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).

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IAPWG members increasingly recognize the need to establish a procurement community of practice (or network of information exchange and collaboration) that would strengthen working relations among the different duty stations, in particular between the field offices and global duty stations, as well as among procurement professionals themselves.

At UNDP, procurement staff also receives training on legal aspects of procurement.

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Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

The Procurement Service engaged in a management review of vendor registration in 2004 in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office of UNDP, and has joined the United Nations Global Marketplace, the Internet based single gateway for vendor registration.

The Global Fund, and the World Bank and other parts of the UN system to jointly report progress on addressing bottlenecks to procurement and supply management by June 2006.

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

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C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

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The Global Fund, the World Bank and other parts of the UN system, and other multilateral institutions and international partners will engage in a process to identify procurement and supply management bottlenecks, and to agree upon concrete steps for the harmonization and alignment of procurement and supply management policies and procedures.

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

Unlike WFP where a separate food procurement unit and manual would seem justified by the highly specialized and even complex requirements of food procurement and delivery, specialized procurement units operating under different systems of accountability might not represent optimal use of procurement resources, particularly in cases of relatively low procurement volume.

29. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the United Nations Global Marketplace website, inter alia, features lists of companies that register through the Global Marketplace as vendors of United Nations system entities, as well as statistics on contract awards, acquisition plans and procurement notices

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.