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Donors and partner countries agree that strengthening core systems, by which public funds are disbursed and services delivered, are central to successful poverty reduction and development strategies.
Established in 2002, the Joint OECD/DAC-World Bank Procurement Round Table Initiative seeks reliable and sustainable ways to enhance public procurement systems. These good practice papers on mainstreaming, capacity development and benchmarking/monitoring/evaluation contribute to advancing the harmonisation and alignment agenda by facilitating the use of strengthened country systems and harmonising interim arrangements where systems have not yet reached internationally accepted baseline levels.
Mainstreaming: A strategy for bringing procurement into the mainstream of the development debate, and in parallel make sure the procurement function is viewed more as a central component of the budget and financial management system of each government, thereby enhancing the awareness that good procurement is vitally important to government success and procurement reforms are more successful when they are integrated into wider public sector reform efforts.
Capacity Development: An effective procurement capacity development strategy that is based on lessons learned; the results of recent research on change management, drivers of/barriers to change, systems theory.
Benchmarking, Monitoring & Evaluation: A clear set of benchmarks and standards for procurement systems against which their performance can be measured or benchmarked and to develop the necessary tools to monitor and evaluate this performance both at the national and procuring agency levels.
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Ownership and Accountability
Country Systems
Transparent and Responsible Aid
Assessing Progress
Managing for Development Results
