Pilot joint financial management and procurement assessments, and joint programmatic and financial reporting

Joint procurement arrangements for the Headquarters organizations are now more common than in previous years.

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.

Several agencies have common manuals, and UNICEF is interested in working with those agencies to compile a joint procurement and procedures manual.

It also welcomed the recommendations for greater joint procurement, post implementation benefit audits, efforts to ensure implementation of information security policies and improved ICT audits, costing and staff training.

The libraries have made groundbreaking progress in joint procurement of these costly resources by using the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium to negotiate subscriptions at a lower cost to the Organization.

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The IAPWG strongly believed that with more complete information in hand about common procurement initiatives undertaken by the Geneva based Joint Purchasing Unit, a number of the JIU recommendations would need to be modified.

The Secretary General has the honour to transmit to the members of the General Assembly the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled Procurement Practices Within the United Nations System , JIU REP 2004 9.

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

Procurement management

Government procurement

Procurement planning

Procurement reform

Procurement report

Procurement opportunities

Notwithstanding the differences in procurement volumes and organizational mandates, the present report, which was suggested to the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) by the World Food Programme (WFP), is relevant to all the organizations of the system.

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

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.

The Procurement Goldmine

Public sector procurement

Overview of procurement

C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

Procurement and contracting

Procurement training initiative

Common procurement services

Electronic procurement methods

Although the Vienna based organizations are conveniently housed in the same building complex, a 2002 JIU report on common and joint services of the United Nations system organizations in Vienna found that each of the four organizations at the Vienna International Centre had its own headquarters procurement service and that various joint arrangements that existed previously had been dismantled.

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.

This lack of clarity has implications for implementation of IAPWG's recommendations or decisions in the organizations and for budgeting resources for joint procurement improvement projects, and the choice of resources that must be approved by the governing bodies.

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.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.

(a) The Registrar is responsible for the procurement functions of the Tribunal, shall establish all its procurement systems and shall designate the officials responsible for performing procurement functions.

61 246. Procurement reform

57 279. Procurement reform

Procurement at international organizations

H. Procurement staff training

Record of procurement proceedings

Record of procurement proceedings