About $1.4 billion in Food for Peace money would move into US Agency for International Development (USAID) accounts that operate under more flexible rules, allowing for local procurement or for funds to be sent directly to the hungry through vouchers or even mobile-phone transfers.
Nevertheless, circumstances may still allow for generic procurement to occur anyway, especially for humanitarian cause.
However, PMTCT funds have not been available for this purpose in Uganda [8], not least as some donors do not allow for the procurement of family planning commodities.
The reactor design allowed for quick and efficient procurement of optimally spaced and sized samples.
However, local procurement is not allowed for vaccines, auto-disable syringes, safety boxes (for disposal of injection equipment), pharmaceuticals, micronutrients and therapeutic foods.
This technique allows for the accurate procurement of cells from specific microscopic regions of tissue sections, and therefore enables the molecular genetic analysis of pure populations of malignant breast cells in their native tissue environment [ 18].
The study's economic analysis, calculating a 20-year investment return, assumes that all construction would take place in 2015 (allowing for lead-in planning and procurement time) and that the price of photovoltaic arrays will drop 20 percent or so from last year's levels.
The misinterpretation of data could therefore have led to wrong conclusions that did not allow for improvements of existing national procurement strategies.
UNICEF procurement policies allow for the entrance of new manufacturers in the middle of a multi-year tender, but the set of conditions permitting this does not specifically include emergence of new technology, products, or competitors.
Establish flexible procurement procedures that allow for more off-the-shelf purchasing and easier contracting and promote innovative application solutions.
