Masters in Public Procurement (MPP)

Over the past decades sound public procurement management has become a key milestone of good governance and national progress. Its significance for social and economic development is reflected in the fact that it constitutes a sizeable proportion of the national economy (15 to 30 percent of national GDP). Public procurement is, therefore, one of today’s fastest growing management disciplines, in terms of both managerial activity and strategic importance. To manage the increasingly complex function of public procurement, procurement personnel need conceptual, technical, and human skills.

The MPP will suit the public procurement officers and those aspiring to join the public procurement function at any level – central, local and parastatal level. For those in the private sector, the programme will enable them understand the machinery of government. Other employees and officers in government agencies and government aides institutions engaged in various levels of procurement as user departments, stores, finance, projects, corporate planning and other allied activities of a public/private sector organisation will find the programme of significant level.

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