A successful visit to Namibia

Purchasing Mavens:


Sophia and I have completed the first leg of our purchasing delegation review of three ITECH countries. We have finished our work with ITECH-Namibia. We have created a purchasing review program that is broken into four parts: purchasing training, purchasing forms - examples and local procedure review, an audit of local practices and then policy standardization analysis and discussions. On the left is a picture of those involved in the purchasing training/review here in Windhoek. They have been fantastic hosts and made our time in Windhoek enjoyable and productive.

ITECH-Namibia has done much in the past couple of years to create a procurement system that works well for them. Our review and write-up of purchasing policies and procedures which we will produce in a month will hopefully assist them creating a comprehensive and efficient system, based on written policies, that will enable local personal to make appropriate purchasing decisions while using continuous improvement techniques.

Under the leadership of Deqa Ali - ITECH Country Director, and newly appointed Deputy Directors of Finance and Operations (John and Sean), ITECH Namibia will continue to improve its procurement, purchasing and A/P processes while providing best practices for the ITECH system. This dedicated management team has created a strong environment that values process, standardation and process improvement. We are well on the way to testing a system in early 2010 which will lead to the granting of delegation of authority. This is exciting as their solid knowledge and workings will most certainly help other ITECH operations.

Below are pictures of 1) Sophia presenting thank you presents to Deqa, the ITECH-Namibia Country Director and 2 ) the ITECH Namibia leadership team.














Our next post will be from Pretoria.

Dennis & Sophia