This delay had a consequent impact on procurement activity and other key projects.

Procurement services activities continue to be an important component of the trust fund accounts.

To support the activities of newly established peacekeeping missions, several staff members of the Procurement Service have been assigned to perform procurement functions.

This recommendation has been accepted and analysis of the procurement activity is under way in an effort to reduce and consolidate transactions and identify other methods of procuring low value items.

UNDP believes that the formal aspects of reporting on procurement activities and the professional exchange of procurement experiences and best practices are currently within the mandate of IAPWG (recommendation 7).

Procurement

In paragraph 514, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it develop and implement guidelines for the periodic rotation of staff responsible for procurement activities.

Procurement Unit

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Senegal

65 NS (28 NSc),

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

IAPWG's comments on the draft of the present JIU report on procurement activities within the United Nations system (JIU REP 2004 9).

The Procurement Goldmine

Procurement report

(h) Procurement and supply

Procurement and contracting

(a) The International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management had changed its name to International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management

The Board took note of changes in the names of certain non governmental organizations that already enjoyed observer status with UNCTAD, as follows

(b) 800,000 dollars for training of both Headquarters and peacekeeping mission procurement staff (640,000 dollars for consultants to organize training, 150,000 dollars for travel of staff for procurement training and 10,000 dollars for training related supplies and materials)

16. Notes with appreciation that the Supplier Code of Conduct has been promulgated and posted on the website of the Procurement Division with a view to achieving the goal of safeguarding the integrity of the United Nations in procurement activities

1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 P 3, 1 P 3,a 1 GS (OL), 9 NO, 5 NO,a 1 NS, 15 NS,a 9 UNV, 11 UNVa

Adaptation to climate variability will be the only way forward in many destinations that are currently prime holiday spots.

To ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations submits the consolidated acquisition plan to the Procurement Service by 1 June of each financial year, the Department has an internal goal of submitting all acquisition plans to the Procurement Service by 15 May.

Public procurement and management of public finances

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement Section (8 new posts)

Aggregate procurement value and trends

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

The following posts are proposed for the Procurement Section

The value of such procurement appears limited.

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

In paragraph 557, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it implement low value procurement principles, in line with the United Nations Procurement Manual and the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, in order to optimize procurement and staff performance.

However, the decision did not go far enough since WFP could probably well have absorbed all of UNHCR limited procurement activities, particularly as they both operate in the humanitarian sector.

28G.25 The Support Services Service is responsible for the administration and maintenance of buildings in the United Nations complex at Nairobi, the coordination of local and international procurement and the operation of registry and the provision of other general services to all organizations in Gigiri.

External validation of the procurement system

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

Subsequently renamed Procurement Service.

Mandate change in scope and scale of mandate

Figure 1 Total procurement of goods and services, 1998 2002

Source IAPSO

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(d) Networking of procurement services

Table 4 Benefits and beneficiaries of electronic government procurement

Excluding IAPSO.