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Documents tagged with Procurement Training and Certification Initiatives
Date published
PN: Supplement to the 2013 Annual Statistical Report on United Nations Procurement 23.02.2017
PN: Report of 13th Session (February 2013, Entebbe) 23.02.2017
Conclusions of the Thirteenth Session of the High Level Committee on Management’s Procurement Network (HLCM PN), Entebbe, 20-22 February 2013. The Session included updates from the Working Groups on Harmonisation, Professional Development, Supplier Access, Sustainable Procurement and Vendor Management as well as status reports on the projects on Vendor Eligibility, Collaborative Procurement, Harmonisation and the UN Global Marketplace Vendor Registration Reform.
CEB Mechanisms tagged with Procurement Training and Certification Initiatives
Date published
PN: Working Group on Professional Development 15.06.2016
This group supports the professional development of procurement staff through strengthening peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing on best practices, innovative approaches and job descriptions. To facilitate this network of job description focal points has been established as well as the annual publication of a ‘Training Compendium’, detailing the various training/qualification/certification programmes being offered by UN agencies. Work is underway to identify a platform to facilitate the knowledge-sharing aspect, which is at the core of this group’s work.