PROGRAM OUTLINES

Procurement of Goods and Services

Intended Audience
Policymakers, project managers, legal and financial procurement advisors, project implementors and other professionals involved in purchasing and contracting for goods, works, and consulting services

Course Objectives
The program covers the institutional, legal, financial, and procedural issues involved in the procurement of goods, works, and services, particularly in the context of development projects supported by external funding. It provides participants with a detailed analysis of the project-procurement cycle, including public procurement and its guiding principles, national procurement laws, procurement planning, the features and steps of international competitive bidding, the concepts involved in evaluating bids, and legal and commercial aspects of contracts. The program provides a full presentation of the procurement policies, procedures, and practices of international financial institutions such as the World Bank.

Course Outline
Role of Public Procurement
• Role and guiding principles
• Impact of WTO on government procurement

National Procurement Laws and Institutions
• Differing approaches under common-law and civil-code systems
• UNCITRAL model law
• Transparency and accountability; ethics and corruption

Procurement Planning
• Role and objectives
• Policy and institutional aspects
• Project cycle: procurement issues

Selection of Consultants
• Procedures of IFIs (World Bank, ADB, United Nations)
• Terms of Reference (TOR), evaluation of proposals
• Contracts — lump-sum, time-based, IQC, IDIQ

International Competitive Bidding
• Objectives, principles, and key features
• The bid package: preparation and scheduling
• Bid advertising and prequalification
• Bid examination, evaluation, and award

Other Methods of Procurement
• Limited international bidding, local competitive bidding
• Direct purchase, shopping
• Internet bidding

Contract Administration
• Principal types of contracts, terms, and guarantees
• Trade terms and their implication
• Dispute avoidance and resolution

Procurement Guidelines of International Finance Institutions

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Project Management

Course Objective
The workshop will show how to improve the management of projects by using system analysis rather than the traditional linear analysis. Participants will (1) experiment with the processes of managing a project in its environment; (2) use system analyses to understand these processes and discover how to enhance success and overcome problems; and (3) prepare a report drawing conclusions and recommendations for their own project.

Workshop Contents
Theoretical presentations will be kept to a minimum. Participants will work in teams and will be challenged to make managerial decisions during a very realistic game on the management of a development project, using appropriate tools (system analysis approach, software programs, discussion groups, research on the internet etc). Daily discussion of these decisions and comparison between their expected and actual consequences will lead the participants to discover major aspects of project management important for them:

Project Analysis: Understanding and Preparing to Organize and Manage Projects
• Strategic management: broad conceptual background and new managerial dimensions
• Project identification and design: design of projects’ ecosystems (the project in relation to its environment)
• Systemic approach to project analysis and evaluation: cost estimation, marketing analysis, risks and uncertainties analysis, strategic planning and scheduling

Control of Project Dynamics: Evolving Projects Demand an Evolving Management Approach
• Decision and implementation: dynamics of decision processes; advantages and pitfalls of the planning process; resources productivity and costs
• Organizing processes: from a static view of organization to a dynamic process approach; towards new performance indicators
• Management of dynamic systems: systems approach to managerial situations, in contrast to a linear one; project life-cycles and trajectories

Management of Project Teams: The Human Dimension is Essential
• Effective communication: various dimensions of the communication process; interpersonal communication and potential pathologies in project situations.
• Management of project teams: dynamics of temporary groups of projects, understanding and managing a team’s life cycle, virtual teams and management of distant groups.

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Essentials of Free and Fair Election and Election Dispute Resolution

Intended Audience
National, state and local elected officials and Election Commissioners, Election Administrators and their deputies, Judges from Election Tribunals

Course Objective
The training course aims to equip elected officials, individuals with oversight of elections, practitioners, and monitors, both internal and external, with the knowledge and expertise to be able to conduct professional, free, fair, and transparent elections.

Methodology
Theoretical presentations will be used along with meetings with officials in federal agencies with oversight of United States elections and campaign finance for federal candidates. In addition, participants will also meet with an elected official with oversight of local elections, a panel of election administrators with the managerial experience of the practical application of elections, using both federal and local election laws. During the course of the workshop, the participants will observe a local election being conducted. Daily discussions of the presentations and observations will allow the participants to develop strategies for decisions and comparison between their expected and actual consequences which will lead the participants to discover major aspects of election administration. The participatory approach used in this course will enable the participants to discuss ideas and compare approaches with others. The participants are expected to actively involve themselves in self-learning to enable themselves to apply their learning to their own situations.

The program will include visits to and or experts from Washington based institutions like, National Democratic Institute (NDI), International Republic Institute (IRI), International Federation of Election System (IFES) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Participants will be able to:
−Produce a plan for election reform
−Identify outputs, activities, and inputs
−Identify and develop objectives and indicators
−Develop a plan of action to conduct an election
−Self-monitor an election
−Select an appropriate framework for conducting an evaluation
−Prepare an election report

Course outline:
−Key concepts and approaches in election reform
− Electoral/voting processes from a legal perspective
−Electoral litigation and case law
−Election canvassing/auditing
−Election certification
−Election reporting
−Election observers
−Voter registration
−Voting equipment
−Candidate qualification
− Ballot design
−Poll worker recruitment, training, and retention
−Vote counting and announcement of election results
−Absentee voting
−Retention of voter-verifiable records
−Summary logs for voter-verifiable record accounting and reconciliation
−Process for recall of elected officials
−Conducting a recount
−Campaign finance regulations and their enforcement

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Electronic Case-flow Management

Intended Audience
Judges, court administrators, court clerks, law enforcement officials, government attorneys, officials at legal departments, and other legal and judicial officials.

Course Objectives
Judiciary in number of countries has adopted electronic case management system and its adoption has been rapidly growing in other jurisdictions as well. Generally, electronic case management system is taken as a tool to enhance the delivery of service in the sector of judiciary, in addition, its expanded use has been found very useful in other branches of government as well as private law firms and legal department of corporations. Modern electronic case management system improves the performance of legal services and substantially reduces the costs for record keeping and data processing.

This course is designed to provide the participants with the fundamental principles of managing an effective electronic case management system. Participants will learn how the electronic case management infrastructure can be used as a tool for an efficient case flow management system.

Course Outline
* Fundamental principles of electronic case management system
* Methodologies and technologies for managing electronic records
* Electronic case filing
* Electronic case assignment system
* Quality assurance and time standards
* Electronic record management and reporting systems
* Basic Introduction to digital preservation techniques
* Strategies necessary to gain judicial support for electronic case management
* Leadership and cooperation to effectuate effective electronic case flow management practices.

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Reforming Courts and Judiciary
Intended Audience: Judges, court clerks, and other court and legal officers, law enforcement officials.

Course Objectives:
All around the world the Judiciary is the last hope of the common man. This arm of the government has been undergoing reforms aimed at reforming and modernizing the process of justice administration for better service delivery. This course offers participants the opportunity to learn best-practice situations in judicial reform. They will also be able to make comparisons and share success stories in the judicial reform process in other jurisdictions with a view to applying relevant examples in their own environments.

Course Outline:
* Overview of the Common Law and Civil Law Legal Systems
* Court structures-Role of independent judiciary in trial and appellate courts
* Fundamental principles of judicial management and court administration
* Court administration at the national level-court administration at the regional and local level
* Securing the independence of the judiciary through administration
* Judicial leadership
* The role of the judge as manager
* Non-judicial court management
* Judicial and court staff integrity: ethics and codes of conduct for judges and court managers
* Court Governance
* Budget and finance
* Space and facilities-legislative and public affairs
* Court records keeping
* Judicial training and court staff training
* Strategic and long-term planning
* Case management principles and practices
* Evaluation of court procedures and case processing
* Developing a case management plan
* Implementing a case management plan and establishing a case management system
* Technology for case management
* An efficient clerk's office: filing and other systems

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Leadership and Organizational Development
Intended Audience: Private and public sector leaders, future leaders, managers,

Course Outline:
Leadership is widely known is a fundamental quality in any operation be it Government, Business of any kind or even day to day living. This course will discuss case studies in leadership and address problems that organizations go through because of leadership flaws. Several theories and their practices will be discussed.

Learning Outcome:
Participants will be able to explain the challenges of leadership in their respective fields. They will learn: * The ethical responsibilities of managers and corporations
* Methods of dealing with ethical conflicts
* Common patterns of success and failure in managing ethics
* The interdependence of business. Government, and society with a view toward responsible stewardship
* Corporate code of conduct
* Organizational culture
* Power and influence tactics effective leader behavior and
* Developing subordinate leaders

The participants will also be conversant on how to:
* Implement direction settings and visioning, strategy formulation, and strategic leadership
* Implement an aligning (strategic, customer and organizational) structure
* Mobilizing and energize the human side of the business
* Implement techniques to improve customer/client focus and network building
* Describe global leadership credibility and CEO/Managing Director/General Manager leadership requirement
* Describe the impact of culture on global and national leadership and business challenges of leadership in a career.

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Key Issues in Trade Facilitation and International Trade Agreements

Intended Audience
Policy makers and practitioners, from the public and private sectors involved in negotiating and ensuring compliance with regional and international trade and custom agreements.

Course Objectives
The seminar provides an understanding of the entire aspects of trade facilitation as well as the significance of regional trade agreements. It will consider the status of developing countries in the WTO and the preferential measures available to promote their economic development.

Course Summary
This training course provides an introduction to the trade facilitation, with special emphasis on related rules, methods and institutions. It covers the logistics of moving goods through ports or the required documentation at a customs post at the border to the environment in which trade transactions take place. It covers both behind and at the border issues. The course examines the unilateral, regional and multilateral approaches governing trade facilitation. Topics include multilateral particularly GATT/WTO aspects of trade facilitation, international trade facilitation techniques & initiatives, customs reform, transport reform, regulatory reform and service sector infrastructure including e-business usages. Other topics include technical assistance & capacity building for trade facilitation, electronic documentation for trade, private sector & government partnership for trade facilitation, and developing countries & implementation of trade facilitation. Attention is given to the special needs of Middle East & North Africa region for further trade facilitation. The goal of the course is to familiarize the participants with the basic idea of trade facilitation & its operation in practice, enabling them to recognize, analyze and study problems that might arise when dealing with trade.

Course outline
Overview of different aspects of trade facilitation
- Evolving definition of trade facilitation
- Current scope of trade facilitation
- Impact of trade facilitation - World Bank approach to trade facilitation
- Relevance of regional cooperative structures in trade facilitation
- Poverty reduction and trade facilitation
Multilateral aspects of trade facilitation
- Unilateral, regional and multilateral approaches
- Potential consequences and benefits of implementing a multilateral approach
- Implications for a multilateral trade facilitation agreement for countries in the region
- Basic principles of the WTO/GATT and trade facilitation
- Doha Mandate
- Key issues involved within the legal framework of the WTO
- An examination of WTO Members’ proposals on trade facilitation
- Current status of work and future prospects

Main international trade facilitation techniques and initiatives
- An overview

Trade facilitation and customs reform
- Customs modernization and border crossing environment
- Efficiency in customs administration
- Issues in customs reform: o Integrity & complex requirements- an old issues
o Security- facilitating trade in secure environment and the growing importance of advance information
- Case studies of customs reform of different countries

Trade facilitation and transport reform
- Logistics and transport services: regulation and competitiveness
- Transit and multimode transport
- Transport security
- Land-locked countries: issues related to transit- and transit-related problems.

Trade facilitation and regulatory reform
- Institutional reform
- Regulatory reform & harmonization
- Transparency

Trade facilitation and services sector infrastructure & e-business usages
Technical assistance & capacity-building for trade facilitation
- Compliance with WTO rules
- Capacity building

- Technical assistance activities:
- Assistance in the modernization of trade administration;
- Implementation of multilateral instruments such as WTO Agreements or the HS Convention; and
- Infrastructure projects.
- Harmonization of standards
- Ports efficiency & roads improvement
- Special needs of Middle East & North Africa region for trade facilitation.

Developing countries & implementation of trade facilitation
Electronic documentation for trade
Private sector – government partnership
- Exploring opportunities for future private sector – government partnership in the development and execution of trade facilitation programs.

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Combating Cyber Crime: Legal and Enforcement Issues

Intended Audience
Program will be most useful to the law enforcement officials, officials from law and justice department, officials from legislative branch, attorneys, and officials at legal department of corporations.

Course Objectives
Cybercrimes are becoming increasingly pervasive and sophisticated and have more severe economic impacts than many conventional crimes. To combat this growing form of criminality, we need a clearer understanding of cybercrimes and strategies to tackle the crimes. Unlike conventional crimes against people or property most cybercrimes require significant skill. Given the Internet’s global nature, cybercrimes entail important procedural and jurisdictional issues. Additionally, due primarily to cybercrimes’ newness, law enforcement authorities worldwide are relatively inexperienced at dealing with them. Therefore, the course on cybercrimes is structured to cover main issues to cater the training and development need for our intended audiences.

Course Outline
· Types of Computer Crime
· Responding to the Threat of Cybercrime
· Protecting Privacy and Public Safety Online
· International Issues in and Efforts to Fight Computer Crime
· Prosecuting Intellectual Property Theft (copyright infringement, trademark counterfeiting and theft of trade secrets)
· Protecting Trade Secrets
· Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Searching and Seizing Computers
· Legal Issues in Government Use of Electronic Transactions and Processes
· Overview of Key Provisions to be addressed by a Computer Crime Legislation

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Professional Development Courses on Education and Training Series

Educational Program/Project Monitoring & Evaluation (M &E)
Intended Audience
Policymakers, Project Managers, M & E Officers, Program Officers, School or College Principals, Supervisors, Teachers and Trainers, and other professionals who involved in program or project design and implementation.

General Objectives
Impart knowledge and skills on program/project monitoring and evaluation.

Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to: i. Conceptualize elements and importance of M & E ii. Incorporate M & E mechanism during planning phase iii. Explain and use M & E tools and methods in the real work situation

Methodology
The course will be conducted in participatory approach. The ratio between theoretical and practical will be 40: 60. It includes lecture, group work, case study, presentation, and games. During the course, exposure visits will be organized to give real field exposure. At the end of the program, all participants will develop M & E proposal with methods, tools, design, and costs. Course Contents
1. Need for Result Based M & E: Basic Concepts, M & E Myths, Needed: a change in approach, how result based are your education programs? Discussion questions, simulation exercises on M & E.
2. The Trend towards M &E of Education Programs: Policy Level and Funding Agency’s interest, Executing Agency’s interest, Project/Program implementing Agency’s interest, stakeholders’ interest.
3. Developing a result based approach: What is result based programs? Purposes and uses of evaluation on education, types of evaluation on education and training. Levels of evaluation on education and training, and HRD, developing a result based focus on education, Discussions questions relating to experiences on education programs’ M& E.
4. Evaluation Models and Design: A complete result-based models on education programs, The RoI process model of education programs, evaluation instrument design, evaluation design for training and education.
5. Data Collection and Analysis: Collecting data, monitoring performance data, follow-up assignments, isolating the effects of education and training, converting data to monetary benefits, identifying intangible measures (employee/ employer, community satisfaction), determining program costs, guidelines for analyzing data, use of statistics, calculating the RoI (Outcomes and Impact level) of education programs.
6. Communicating Program Results: Target Audiences, Developing M & E Report, Communication Media.
7. Exposure Visits: Implementation issues on M & E of education programs, Lessons Learned, and comparison the learning with own M & E system.
8. Presentation on evaluation proposal for education programs.

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