 Setting Up Training Feedback Loops: Bangladesh Public Procurement Reform Project
 In medium or long-term training programs, monitoring and evaluation systems can help improve outcomes by establishing feedback loops between the workplace and training programs. Information on the implementation of knowledge and skills by former trainees can be used to shape training content.
Monitoring and evaluation was successfully used in the Bangladesh Public Procurement Reform Project to improve training. The project included widespread training of both public sector officials and private sector agents, to facilitate the transition to new procurement regulations. A Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) was established in the Ministry of Planning to implement and monitor transition to new procurement regulations. Although an outside training provider was contracted to train trainers and manage the training, the CPTU remained actively involved in the design, implementation, and monitoring of training. The CPTU used data from its ongoing monitoring of implementation of procurement regulations to refine and enhance the training program and to provide strategic follow-up support to trainees where there were evident implementation problems. Presently, with the training program stabilized after a lengthy pilot period, the CPTU is working to phase out its involvement in training by building the capacity of a local training institute. The CPTU's involvement in the design, implementation, and monitoring of training in the initial phases was crucial to the success of training in supporting the transition to the new regulations. |
