Developing countries globally and Africa in particular are major borrowers from the world bank for funding of the country’s development projects. Public sectors executives are entrusted with the responsibility to come up with the development projects and approach the world bank for the respective funds. For many years, the bank used the ‘red and green’ procurement guidelines that have been replaced by the new ‘procurement regulations for IPF borrowers, launched on July 1st 2016.

The new regulations require the public sector executives to actively participate in the approval process. Procurement officers are being trained on the regulations. However, the chief accounting officers in ministry need to be sensitized on what the regulations entails, and will enhance their approval capacity as well as negotiation with the world bank for needed development funding. ESAMI in collaboration with the world bank will run the programme and provide reading materials on the procurement framework regulations.