Mart sent us some suggestions for improving our futuure courses. We would like to share three at this time and the other notes and suggestions she has made last September whilst on mission to Bhutan will be published later. Do send your suggestions too.
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Dear Ed,
I apologize for this late response. As I mentioned I observed CPIA in Bhutan this year and conducted only one session as my first trial. From my experience of this seminar as observer and previous seminars as participant (when I was working for Mongolian Government) I want to share my thoughts to improve PIAs:
1. First of all PIA design and materials could be prepared with different options or levels depending on the specific type of participants. At the same time the selection of participant must be clearly based on the 2 aspects: i) need for translation or not and ii) practical experience of procurement or none. This customized seminars will be much more effective and will solve many difficulties we always encounter in PIA seminar. Depending on the participants group we may end up organizing 2-3 seminars with shorter durations. Total time for COSO staff in the field could be the same.
2. For the seminars with translation, we need to contact RM and Procurement Policy Agencies in the country, who are in the best position to provide satisfactory translator with good procurement knowledge from their offices or from the national consultants pool, with whom they work on the procurement reform projects.
3. Regarding the content of the PIA, I believe we must include module for Country Procurement System as a main topic including a link with international developments in procurement area and NCB Annex as well. Procurement Policy Agencies may want to cooperate in delivering this module or at least provide some inputs and their comments to share with participants.
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