“Procurement Reforms and Capacity Building: Embedded in Public Financial Management”

1. “Procurement Reforms and Capacity Building: Embedded in Public Financial Management” HLF on Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Tunis 16 - 17 Nov 2009

2. OECD/DAC Task Force (TF) on Procurement: What is it? • International forum of professionals and development practioners from donor and partner countries and multilateral institutions • Shares country/regional level knowledge and Best Practice, supports partner countries in planning and implementing reforms • Originated in Jan 2003 as WB/OECD Round Table, then OECD/DAC JV on Procurement

3. OECD/DAC Global Partnership (GP) on Country Systems • Structure • TF on Procurement and TF on PFM • Part of OECD/DAC WP-EFF response to commitments in AAA • Common GP work plan • GP Co-ordinators, TF Co-Chairs and others: management and policy coordination group

4. Global Partnership (cont) • Objectives • Accelerate donor use of country systems; • Facilitate strengthening of country systems and local capacity; • Communicate the benefits of using country systems to senior levels; • engage a wider group of stakeholders (eg CSOs, private sector, parliaments, the media).

5. Global partnership (cont.) •  Synergies and opportunities to cooperate • TFs have developed a joint GP work plan • Draft TF products will be reviewed and commented on by other members of the GP • Overlaps and duplication should be minimized • Processes and methodologies will be more harmonized and streamlined • Example - preparation and implementation of coordinated capacity development strategies

6. Part II – OECD/DAC Benchmarking Tool • What is the Tool? • How does it work to integrate Procurement, Public Financial Management and Governance? • How is it linked to Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments?

7. What is the Tool? • Establishes common qualitative standards/benchmarks for public procurement systems • Contains a short User’s Guide • Contains a Performance Measurement and Monitoring section (Part II) • Looks at procurement systems from 4 Pillar perspective: legal and regulatory; institutional and management; operations and market; integrity and transparency

8. How Does it Facilitate Integration? • Companion tool linked to PEFA assessment and created as a “drill down” for procurement • Looks at elements of PFM and Governance from a procurement perspective providing guidance on how they are inter-related • Looks at cross cutting elements of integrity and transparency

9. How Does it Link to PEFA specifically? • PEFA assessment looks at procurement specifically through PI-19 • PEFA looks at procurement elements for a range of other indicators including arrears, budget formulation, internal controls, access to information and external controls • OECD/DAC provides input for PEFA assessments and PEFA provides input for OECD/DAC assessment (Pillar II in particular)

10. At the Country Level • OECD/DAC and PEFA are closely linked at the country level by providing information that is used by the country to develop a country owned and prioritized strategy for addressing capacity development needs across a spectrum of issues related to overall public sector governance.