Business News of Sunday, 24 November 2019Source: Public Procurement AuthorityPPA's acting CEO attends Africa Public Procurement Summit in SenegalFrank Mante, acting CEO of PPAThe 2nd week of November, 2019 was hectic in the Wolof city of Dakar in Africa’s most westerly point-Senegal, as Heads of African Public Procurement Regulatory Authorities, Procurement Experts, and representatives from Governments congregated in the plush King Fahd Palace Hotel for the first General Assembly of the African Public Procurement Network (APPN). The gathering of about 43 Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, Lusophone and Arabic speaking-African nations was under the theme: “Innovative Approaches to Public Procurement”. The Ghanaian delegation was led by the Acting CEO of the Public Procurement Authority, Frank Mante. The aim of this network, he said, is to inspire effective leadership for public procurement reforms and encourage the harmonization and implementation of good procurement practices across the continent. One of the recurring topics at the General Assembly was about harnessing disruptive technologies in public procurement.

Source: GhanaWeb November 24, 2019 03:22 UTC