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Agencies to train corps members on procurement monitoring

By Oludare Richards, Abuja
01 July 2015   |   11:25 pm
AS part of measures to increase public finance literacy and procurement monitoring activities in health and education sectors, as well as among young people, the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) , recently organised a Public Procurement Monitoring Workshop to train 150…

Corps-members-13-2-15AS part of measures to increase public finance literacy and procurement monitoring activities in health and education sectors, as well as among young people, the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) , recently organised a Public Procurement Monitoring Workshop to train 150 youth corps members to such end.

The training, which was supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) had in attendance, staff of the ICPC, PPDC and Youth Corp Members.

According to the organisers, the training is the first of several steps towards increasing citizens’ participation in the actualization of improved national infrastructure and public services.

The purpose of the training according to the Head, Youth Education and Mobilization Unit of the Education Department, ICPC, Kingsley Obi is to highlight the positive correlation between procurement monitoring and anti-corruption.

The Procurement Monitoring Programme Coordinator for PPDC, Mrs. Nkemdilim Ilo emphasized the importance of the public procurement process to eventual public service delivery.

She explained the role and importance of an observer to the procurement monitoring process and how the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 is a veritable tool for accessing procurement related information.

Real life simulations were used to exemplify the Public Procurement process with corps members participating in the discourse.

According to PPDC Communications Officer,Ugochi Ekwueme “The participants of this training are members of the Anti-Corruption Community Development Group of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) sponsored by ICPC.

“Part of the roles of PPDC in the partnerships will be enlightening the youths on the value of the public procurement processes to the effectiveness of the resulting public services.

“Specifically, the training would provide information on the public procurement process, the meaning, relevance and legal basis for observing public procurement processes. The Youth corps members would also be informed of the provisions on the Public Procurement Act 2007 as well as the benchmarks to watch out for when observing public procurement processes.”

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