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In Botswana, following a regional train-the-trainer workshop for assessors, the team carrying out theassessment met and identified resource and capacity requirements for undertaking the exercise. Theteam was then enlarged and agreed on a three-step approach. The first step of the project focused onthe team and stakeholders due to carry out the assessment of the baseline indicators. The second stepwas to validate the results in a workshop setting. Since the team was also charged with carrying outthe assessment of some performance indicators on the relevant pillars (step 3) and realising that thisexercise would require additional data and time, the work to collect data for the CPIs was planned wellahead and a questionnaire was drawn up for this purpose. Questionnaires were also used as a tool byCameroon and Malawi.The assessment of the national procurement system in Ghana was divided into three sections:i) evaluation of the progress in implementing the recommendations of the 2003 CPAR; ii) jointgovernment/donor assessment of the BLIs; and iii) independent review of the government‟s selfassessmenton public procurement performance. The latter was carried out earlier in the context of thegovernment‟s Three-Year Strategic Plan focusing on pubic financial management. The procurementassessment was planned in detail to cover the three aforementioned areas and followed a tightschedule. It included interviews with a variety of stakeholders and the presentation of initial results tohigh-level government officials and donors.In the pilot exercise, many countries called upon external expertise. Uganda, for example, used a mixof government and UNDP expertise. Other countries involved procurement specialists from the WorldBank, the Asian Development Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank (for exampleAfghanistan, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Paraguay) or hired a team of international/local consultants (forexample, Cameroon, Ghana, Mongolia, Tanzania, Senegal, Malawi, Niger, Lao, Vietnam).The work planTo summarise the planning results, Cameroon, Mongolia, Togo and Tanzania drafted activity planswhich specified the necessary activities, time schedule and responsibilities. As an example, theroadmap of Tanzania‟s Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PARA) is presented in Table 3below.Table 3. Tanzania’s - roadmap for its final reportACTIVITY TIME PLAN RESPONSIBILITY1. Send progress report to OECD-DAC 19 June 2007 PARA2. Finalise data collection and verificationWithin PEsOther stakeholders20 June 2007 PPRA & consultant3. Data analysis and draft report preparation 14 July 2007 PPRA4. Draft report to stakeholders 23 July 2007 PPRA5. Validation workshopPEsStakeholders6-7 August 2007 PPRA & consultant6. Review of draft report 8-13 August 2007 PPRA & consultant7. Send final report to OECD-DAC 31 August 2007 PPRA8. Preparation of presentation; presentation atCopenhagen Conference.19-21 September 2007 PPRA18 COMPENDIUM OF COUNTRY EXAMPLES AND LESSONS LEARNED […] - OECD 2008