Compendium of Country Examples and Lessons Learned from ...

ForewordIn 2002, the OECD-DAC and the World Bank established the Round Table on StrengtheningProcurement Capacities in Developing Countries with the aim to create better tools and techniques tostrengthen public procurement in developing countries. Three Good Practice Papers were produced bythe Round Table in 2004 that addressed Mainstreaming Procurement, Procurement CapacityDevelopment and Benchmarking, Monitoring and Evaluating.In 2005, the OECD/DAC Joint Venture on Procurement (“the JV”) was set up with a mandate to fulfilthe Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and its commitments to strengthen national procurementsystems, support capacity development and support the use of local systems. In the context ofsupporting procurement reforms, the “Methodology for Assessment of National ProcurementSystems” was developed as a tool to assess procurement systems 1 (“The Methodology”).This report presents the initial experiences and lessons learned by volunteer partner countries inAfrica, Latin America and Asia concerning the application of the Methodology for the Assessment ofNational Procurement Systems. The Methodology was developed and approved for field testing in2006 as an input towards implementing the Paris Declaration agenda and to assist in strengtheningcountry procurement systems as a component of a well-performing public sector. It is the result of thejoint efforts of multilateral and bilateral development partners and of partner countries around theworld. These experiences and lessons represent some early results achieved by partner governmentsworking in collaboration with national stakeholders including civil society, the private sector, themedia, elected members of parliament and international development partners. The report sharesexperiences in applying the Methodology, both country examples from the JV pilot exercises and fromother applications by other partner countries.1The Methodology for the Assessment of National Procurement Systems was developed under theOECD-DAC/World Bank Round Table on Strengthening Procurement Capacities in DevelopingCountries and the Joint Venture for Procurement with financial support of the OECD-DAC, the WorldBank and the IADB. www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness.COMPENDIUM OF COUNTRY EXAMPLES AND LESSONS LEARNED […] - OECD 2008 7