“Procurement Reforms and Capacity Building: Embedded in Public Financial Management” HLF on Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Tunis Nov 2009

OECD/DAC Task Force (TF) on Procurement: What is it? 1. International forum of professionals and development practioners from donor and partner countries and multilateral institutions 2. Shares country/regional level knowledge and Best Practice, supports partner countries in planning and implementing reforms 3. Originated in Jan 2003 as WB/OECD Round Table, then OECD/DAC JV on Procurement

OECD/DAC Global Partnership (GP) on Country Systems 1. 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

Global Partnership (cont) 2. 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).

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

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?

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

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

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)

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.