The IAPWG mechanism, in existence for the past 30 years, has been the main forum for interaction among procurement professionals of the United Nations system.

For example, apparently neither procurement professionals nor their IAPWG forum have ever constituted a subsidiary body of CEB similar to CEB committees for personnel, financial or ICT issues.

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.

Some organizations felt that IAPWG should continue to meet annually as an informal body reserved only for procurement professionals, other organizations suggested enhancing its role and convening its meetings twice a year.

In preparing the report, the Inspector attended, as observer, the 28th meeting of IAPWG held in May 2003 in Warsaw, which provided an opportunity to follow live exchanges among procurement professionals on the wide range of topics on the agenda and to interact with virtually all the heads of procurement services of the organizations.

The evaluation report should be prepared with the involvement of professionals from the private sector supply industry and discussed by the entire IAPWG membership, which in turn should adopt recommendations for its procurement community as a whole.

Another reason may be the informal and ill defined status of IAPWG, which serves as a central forum for procurement professionals, and the lack of a clear inter agency identity for IAPSO, as discussed in the following chapter.

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Procurement experts are first and foremost business professionals with strong skills in communication, negotiation and versatility and possessing sound knowledge of the supply chain, all of which are necessary to effectively manage business processes between suppliers and end users.

And they are highly skilled professionals.

There are very few women professionals.

These are professionals all over the world.

Also, the professionals are institutions in themselves.

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The total number of posts proposed under the support budget for 2006 2007 is 2,797 (983 international Professionals, 263 national Professionals and 1,551 General Service and other categories of staff), as compared with the authorized staffing for 2004 2005 of 2,717 (930 international Professionals, 258 national Professionals and 1,529 General Service and other categories of staff).

The previous census indicated that 53 per cent of managers, 65 per cent of professionals and 52 per cent of assistant professionals were immigrants.

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There are just way too few eye care professionals.

International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)

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

(c) Provide adequate training to judges, caregivers and other professionals.

Procurement management

Government procurement

Procurement planning

Procurement reform

Procurement report

Procurement opportunities

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.

We do it for fun, or as Olympians, or as professionals.

The programme was aimed at strengthening their capacity as media professionals.

Ongoing implementation of specialized orientation and development programmes for junior professionals

Proposal by International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)

Ongoing implementation of specialized orientation and development programmes for junior Professionals

c. Professionals and practitioners specialized in sustainable development and Agenda 21.

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

Procurement and contracting