Pilot joint financial management and procurement assessments, and joint programmatic and financial reporting

Joint procurement arrangements for the Headquarters organizations are now more common than in previous years.

The Global Fund and the World Bank to complete piloting of joint financial management and procurement assessments, and joint programmatic and financial reporting by December 2005.

Several agencies have common manuals, and UNICEF is interested in working with those agencies to compile a joint procurement and procedures manual.

It also welcomed the recommendations for greater joint procurement, post implementation benefit audits, efforts to ensure implementation of information security policies and improved ICT audits, costing and staff training.

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The libraries have made groundbreaking progress in joint procurement of these costly resources by using the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium to negotiate subscriptions at a lower cost to the Organization.

Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

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The IAPWG strongly believed that with more complete information in hand about common procurement initiatives undertaken by the Geneva based Joint Purchasing Unit, a number of the JIU recommendations would need to be modified.

The Secretary General has the honour to transmit to the members of the General Assembly the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled Procurement Practices Within the United Nations System , JIU REP 2004 9.

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

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Notwithstanding the differences in procurement volumes and organizational mandates, the present report, which was suggested to the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) by the World Food Programme (WFP), is relevant to all the organizations of the system.

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.

The Procurement Service instead proposed an amendment to the Procurement Manual that would deal with the issue.

UNICEF finds that merging procurement services of various agencies into a single procurement facility is not feasible.