United Nations Procurement
Capacity Development Centre

Starts: 15 November 2010

Ends: 10 December 2010

-Overall Objective
The overall objective of the e-learning course is to enable self-paced training on public procurement which aims at enhancing the capacity of legal experts, public sector procurement officers and purchasing agency managers to implement speedy, transparent and a fair acquisition of goods and services through competitive means, and to recommend actions on how to strengthen the public procurement system (regulations, management and procedures).

-Target Audience
Procurement specialists from developing countries, countries in economic transition and countries emerging from armed conflict working in the field of supervision and execution of development projects; lawyers and legal advisors who assist in the area of procurement; Ministry and local government level public procurement officers; Finance Officials from the Ministry of Finance and Central purchasing department officials.

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