Denu, Berhanu (PhD)Begashaw, Achamyeleh2018-07-032023-11-192018-07-032023-11-192016-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/5918The 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 Procurementen-USGreen ProcurementSustainable ProcurementThesis