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Public Policy & Government Transformation5-day executive programUSD $1,999

Public Procurement Integrity & Contract Governance

Design procurement that is competitive, clean and defensible — from specification to contract management.

IPAT Executive Certificate 5 intensive days Permanent secretaries, directors-general, commissioners, directors, heads of delivery and M&E units, county and state executives, and development-partner leaders.

The executive challenge

The problem this program solves

Cabinet approved public procurement integrity on a slide; the fiscal analysis, the delivery plan and the incentive structure were all to follow. They never did. The political cost arrives on schedule: an announcement without delivery is a loan taken against the next election. You will trace money to outcomes in the Data Lab, run a delivery review under fire, and leave with a measurement system that resists gaming.

Context

Why this matters now

Every public procurement integrity reform window is shorter than the political cycle that opens it.
Fiscal pressure is structural: rising debt service and shrinking aid budgets demand a different public procurement integrity statecraft.
Lenders and development partners now condition resources on demonstrable public procurement integrity delivery capability.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Design public procurement integrity policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
  • Trace public procurement integrity money to outcomes and defend the trace under scrutiny.
  • Sequence public procurement integrity reform so it survives resistance, turnover and the next budget cycle.
  • Manage public procurement integrity programmes with fiduciary discipline and visible value for money.

The IPAT Course Standard

The five-day journey

Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.

IPAT Signature Case™

The Initiative That Worked in Three Districts

One district doubles immunisation coverage using data, supervision and modest incentives; neighbouring districts with the same public procurement integrity budget stagnate. The ministry wants to scale it before the next audit cycle.

Your decision: Decide what to scale, what to formalise, and what scaling will destroy if done clumsily.

Facility-level performance panelCost-effectiveness comparisonSupervision structure review

IPAT Data Lab™

The public procurement integrity data at a water services regulator measures activity; nobody measures delivery.

Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a water services regulator — the two sources disagree.

Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".

A public procurement integrity delivery dashboard that resists gaming.

Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate

Day 5 · The Capstone

What will you change when you return to work?

Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.

You leave with: Evidence-Based Policy Design and Evaluation Framework

Methodology

Frameworks you will master

IPAT-proprietary methodology
  • • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
  • • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
Established practice you will apply
  • • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
  • • Results-based management
  • • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods

Cohorts

Upcoming cohorts

New dates are being scheduled

Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.

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