Ghana, World Bank help Liberia build procurement capacity through training

Ghana, with the support of the World Bank is helping to build the procurement capacity of Liberia by offering training to that country’s procurement professionals.

In a press release issued by the World Bank and copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, the Bank says the effort is in furtherance of procurement reforms in the West African sub-region, and therefore, it is supporting an initiative in which the Government of Ghana, represented by the Ghana Public Procurement Authority (PPA) is sharing a full set of procurement curriculum and training materials with the Government of Liberia, as represented by the Liberia Public Procurement and Concessions Commission.

The Bank indicates that the sponsors of the Ghana Procurement  Capacity Program [Millennium Development Authority (MIDA)] of Ghana, with funding through the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the USA (MCC)) presented copies of the soft and hard copies to the World Bank procurement team in Accra, Ghana who facilitated this international cooperation.

“The materials developed are for tertiary level education in Ghana for students specializing in procurement, which are now, to be adapted and made available for the training of procurement professionals in Liberia,” it says.

According to the release, the set of materials, including  curricula and modules as well as accompanying lecture notes in both hard and soft copies were handed over to the Lead Procurement Specialist of the World Bank, Mr.  Allan Rotman by the Chief Executive of MiDA, Mr. Martin Esson Benjamin at the MiDA offices in Accra on the 20th of September 2011.

Photo: Mr. Alan Rotman (second Left) receiving copies of the lecture notes from Mr. Martin Eson Benjamin (fifth right), while Mr. Charles Taylor (first left) displays a set of the Curricula and Modules. Others in the picture include Mr. Vidal Creppy (first right), Mr Carl Lokko (third right) and Ms. Mary Jo Johnson (third left).

By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi