S Asia public procurement confce on Nov 1-3

The three-day 3rd South Asia Regional Public  Procurement Conference will be held in the city on November 1-3 next in a bid to make the public procurement systems of the South Asian countries more effective, reports UNB. The conference will continue with the same overarching goal to enable the heads of public procurement and other key stakeholders in South Asia together to meet and learn from one another with a view to continuously making their public procurement systems more effective in utilisation of public resources, said a high official at the Planning Ministry.

He said the main theme of the conference will be 'Innovation for Sustainable Performance', following up on the theme of the Second Conference 'Moving from compliance to performance'.  Within the framework of this theme, five topics will be delivered and discussed. These are sound public procurement performance, procurement workforce and professionalism, Electronic-Government Procurement (e-GP), Innovative tools and methods for performance enhancement and performance measurement.