The Case of International Organization for Migration Ethiopia mission Addis Ababa Head Office
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Global procurement is a sourcing strategy that assists in the acquisition of goods and services from the abroad market. Humanitarian organizations face several challenges in processing global procurement. Some of these are high uncertainty in demand and supply, the nature of the humanitarian environment, oversupply of items and expensive value of global procurements. The general objective of this study was to outline processes and identify the challenges of global procurement in IOM. A mixed approach with collectively applying qualitative and quantitative techniques was employed in this study. The target population of the study was the IOM staff currently actively engaging in the global procurement process in the Ethiopia mission Addis Ababa head office. The study employed a convenient sampling (purposive sampling) method to conduct a survey. The primary data was gathered from respondents through a questionnaire. The secondary collected from organizational manuals, reports, policies, several works of literature academic journals scholarly articles, and the internet. Questionnaire was distributed to participants electronically via email. Furthermore, the procurement process of the UN organizations (IOM, UNIDO, UNOPS) was reviewed along with the procurement policies and manuals. The analysis had a descriptive nature and used Microsoft Excel for data analysis purposes. Graphs, tables, and illustrations were employed to describe and discuss results. The results demonstrated IOM lacks standards and customized definitions for requisitions. In addition, IOM has not had a structured and well-planned global procurement plan. The study recommended that IOM should produce a strategic, planned, attainable, all-rounded, and measurable global procurement plan. This helps to have a coordinated and organized global procurement operation that is aligned with ensuring the organizational objectives are in place. The study suggested that further study can be done on related topics in multiple humanitarian organizations (can be two or three UN agencies) to compare and contrast the findings of this study.
Keywords: PROCUREMENT PROCESS, PROCUREMENT PLANNING, GLOBAL PROCUREMENT