Introduction
Welcome to the UN Procurement Capacity Development Centre (PCDC) website.
An important element of our work is to capture, develop and disseminate procurement capacity development related knowledge to government partners, partners in the development community and within the UN system.
The aim of this website is to provide our partners with a central point, where they can easily access the most relevant and up to date information within the procurement capacity development arena.
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News
2009-06-30
Global: 4th IPPC - Call for Paper Proposals
The 4th International Public Procurement Conference - Towards a New Horizon in Public Procurement - will be hosted by South Korea's Public Procurement Service in Seoul on the 26-28 A...
2009-06-24
Africa - South Africa: New Website on Public Procurement Regulation in Southern Africa
The website for the British Academy funded project on public procurement in Africa has now been launched.
The project, which commenced in 2009 and is funded under the British Academy's...
2009-06-16
Global: Capacity Development and the Financial Crisis
In a recent interview Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States, Kori Udovički, explained h...
2009-06-09
Latin America & the Caribbean: First South American Training Course for Trainers in Sustainable Public Procurement
On May 26-28, ChileCompra, the Public Procurement and Contracting Bureau in Chile, participated in the first South American training course for Trainers in Sustainable Public Procurement. The...
2009-06-09
Latin America & the Caribbean: Chilean-Colombian Free Trade Agreement with Focus on Public Procurement
On the 8 May 2009, the Chilean-Colombian Free Trade Agreement came into effect and on the 18 May a public inauguration was held in the city of Bogotá, with the participation of high-level g...