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The Joint Venture for Procurement (www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness/procurement) is an international forum for procurement specialists representing multilateral institutions, bilateral development agencies and developing countries engaged in procurement reform. Its mandate is to fulfill the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and its commitments to: strengthen national procurement systems; support capacity development , and use of local country systems. (more)
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04-Jun-2008
The main objective of the assessment was to test the methodology as a tool for assessing the quality of a country procurement system in terms of its effectiveness and efficiency which developing countries and development partners can use to assess quality and effectiveness of national procurement systems. The assessment was intended to provide the basis for formulating capacity development plans to improve the procurement system.
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from 28-Aug-2008 to 30-Aug-2008
The International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC) is a meeting place for public procurement professionals and academics from all over the world, in the area of public procurement. The third IPPC will take place in Amsterdam from 28 to 30 August 2008. The conference is shaped around papers submitted by international members of the academic world as well as the world of everyday public procurement practice. About 100 papers, with a wide diversity of topics, have been submitted.
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21-Apr-2008
In 2007, the Government of Malawi undertook a capacity assessment of the country's public procurement system using the OECD-DAC Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement Systems in combination with the UNDP Approach to Procurement Capacity Assessment.
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from 05-May-2008 to 07-May-2008
The third meeting of the Joint Venture on Procurement took place in Arusha from 5 – 7 May, at the invitation of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority of Tanzania in collaboration with the African Development Bank. This meeting brought together procurement professionals and interested development practioners from multilateral and bilateral development organisations and from partner countries around the world. The meeting took place in the context of implementing the procurement-related aspects of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. (español)
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11-Jan-2008
The Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration has requested that the Joint Venture for Procurement be responsible for the co-ordination and collection of Indicator 2b data as part of the 2008 monitoring exercise.
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05-Feb-2008
Members of the Joint Venture on Procurement met in Copenhagen Denmark on 19-21 September 2007. The summary is also available in French and Spanish .
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06-Dec-2007
Members of the Working Group and other representatives of the JV for Procurement and interested members of BIAC to the OECD met to build on the results of the first meeting on 3 April, to give the Working Group the opportunity to hear firsthand the concerns of BIAC members and to discuss ways to continue the constructive dialog on strengthening partner country procurement systems. A summary note is available (in English). This meeting, held on 18 Sept in Copenhagen, was intended as one in a series of consultations and exchanges between the Joint Venture and BIAC.
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27-Sep-2007
To date, 22 partner countries have participated in a field testing exercise of the version 4 Benchmarking and Assessment Methodology for Public Procurement Systems; other partner countries have used the methodology separately from the JV or intend to do so as part of the 2008 Paris Declaration Monitoring Report exercise. The reports of the countries who have used the methodology and who have agreed that the OECD-DAC publish their reports on this public website are attached as a demonstration of their willingness and openness to share their experiences and lessons with others.
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from 19-Sep-2007 to 21-Sep-2007
At the invitation of the Government of Denmark and the United Nations Development Programme, the second meeting of the Joint Venture for Procurement took place in Copenhagen from 19-21 September 2007. This meeting brought together procurement professionals from multilateral and bilateral development organisations and from partner countries in the context of implementing the procurement-related aspects of the Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness. Documents are also available in français and espagnol.
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from 13-Sep-2007 to 14-Sep-2007
An international workshop was organised to provide guidance and orientation to partner countries who have agreed to use the Joint Venture's procurement assessment methodology as part of the 2008 field survey exercise. This data will be included in the 2008 Monitoring Report for the Paris Declaration
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from 27-Jun-2007 to 29-Jun-2007
The Working Group of the Joint Venture on Procurement meeting took place in Tunis, Tunisia. Please click above for the major decisions and next steps. This is also available in français and espagnol .
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from 24-Apr-2007 to 26-Apr-2007
The Government of Peru hosted the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Meeting regional meeting on procurement capacity development in Lima. This event was sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the OECD-DAC Joint Venture for Procurement.
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on 03-Apr-2007
At this meeting, the Joint Venture for Procurement explained the methodology for assessing national procurement systems and listened to the points of view of the private stakeholder.
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