Green Procurement: the Practice & Challenges in three Selected UN Agencies in Ethiopia
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The main objective of this research is to assess the practice and challenges of Green Procurement
in three selected UN agencies in Ethiopia namely UNECA, UNDP & UNOPS. The gap identified
in this research is the implementation problem of green procurement in the procurement activities
at sourcing, bid evaluation and technical evaluation stages. According to the preliminary
interview conducted at the beginning of the research stage the main reasons for the gap was lack
of management support and the awareness level of procurement practitioners and employees. The
researcher employed mixed research design method to assess the practice by raising four basic
questions that revolve around awareness, management support and challenges of green
procurement. The researcher developed his tools based on the four basic questions and the
required information was retrieved from the respondents. The respondents were the procurement
practitioners, requistioners, technical evaluation committee, procurement cases reviewing
committees and employees who works in the area of climate change. The data collected through
structured questionnaire analyzed using descriptive statistical technique which includes
frequencies & mean using and tables along with the interview. From this particular research in
adequate management support and lack of awareness is found to be one of the reasons for the
implementation problem. In addition to this additional reasons are identified. These are the usage
of whole life cycle approach is complex particularly for the environmental attributes of the product
and the member states are not in agreement to fully implement the green procurement concept
since it discriminates vendors from the developing nations. The researcher also comes up with
some possible suggestions & recommendations so as to tackle the problems. These are, arrange
capacity development and awareness creation programme for both the procurement practitioners
and vendors and integrating sustainable procurement rules with main procurement rules.
Key Words: Green Procurement, Sustainable Procurement
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Green Procurement, Sustainable Procurement