In order to allow for a meaningful exchange, participation will be limited to 15-20 countries from different geographical regions, representing a mix from different contexts including middle income countries self-procuring, currently procuring vaccines through a pooled procurement mechanism such as UNICEF, or plans in the coming 3-5 years to move to self-procurement.
Cromer et al. note that early graduates from USAID family planning funding had procurement systems in place but experienced stock-outs because they lacked experience procuring through different systems.
Prior to any of this though, there have been hours spent reading an author's book (I read their entire book, not just skim through it) or procuring interviews, conducting interviews, recording and editing clips, removing the "uh's", "um's" and unnecessarily long pauses from interviews.
Many of the latter required and still require the guidance that can only be procured through well planned research.
The United States' current gun control debate has centered on what type of guns people should legally own and what hoops people should jump through to procure them.
As the examples of the e-health and workforce scoping studies showed, the specialist knowledge required to adequately map a subject was not always found in a single individual or research team but required multi-disciplinary input through separate studies, some procured through competitive tender.
Nearly all of the complaints, including the one from W. H and Whitehouse Hotel, accuse Marriott of engaging in self-dealing and profiteering by procuring hotel supplies through Avendra, a private company in which Marriott is the majority owner, and of increasingly charging various fees without providing supporting invoices.
One channel for procuring resources was through the gifts from the governments of the Central Plains, another channel was through small-scale trade.
Both "Room" and "Brooklyn" wound up piecing together their financing in much the same manner, procuring the money through a patchwork of film agreements that, as David Kosse, director of Film4, the movie arm of British broadcaster Channel 4, puts it, "have to all close on a given day or it doesn't work".
In all cases however, Agta subsist on a mixed economy, which is based on procuring wild products through fishing, hunting and gathering.
