Training

2013 INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT [SEP]

DATES:	SEP 9 - 27, 2013
TUITION:	$5950

Overview

The International Public Procurement program covers the institutional, legal, financial and procedural issues involved in the procurement of goods and services by public entities and discusses reform programs to improve transparency, efficiency and accountability. It provides participants with a detailed analysis of the project-procurement cycle and includes a full presentation of the procurement policies of international financial institutions (IFI) such as the World Bank, as well as a comprehensive coverage of the open tender system.

Course Outline

Public Procurement Reforms

• Reform programs and approaches to enhance transparency, efficiency, integrity and accountability

National Procurement Laws and Institutions

• Differing approaches under common law and civil code systems

• UNCITRAL model law

• Transparency and accountability; ethics and corruption

International Procurement

• Procedures of international financial institutions such as World Bank, ADB, IDB, etc.

Procurement Planning

• Role and objectives

• Policy and institutional aspects

• Project cycle: procurement issues

• Procurement process under goods, works and PPP

• Budgeting, budget utilization and monitroing

Selection of Consultants

• Procedures of IFI

• Terms of reference, evaluation of proposals, QCBS, QBS

• Contracts: lump sum, time-based

International Competitive Bidding (ICB)

• Objectives, principles, and key features

• The bid package: preparation and scheduling

• Bid advertising and prequalification

• Preparation of bidding documents

• Bid examination, evaluation, and award

Other Methods of Procurement

• Limited/restrictive international bidding, national competitive bidding

• Direct purchase, shopping

• Internet bidding, electronic procurement

• Green Procurement

• Versatile and adaptive procurement

Contract Administration

• Principal types of contracts, terms, and guarantees

• Negotiation techniques

• Dispute avoidance and resolution

• Oversight and monitoring

Performance-Based Contracting

Course Advisor

Raghavan Srinivasan has over forty years of experience in international procurement of goods and services and in national procurement systems. He was Chief Procurement Advisor for the World Bank for 10 years until his retirement in 1997. Mr. Srinivasan has been teaching this course at ILI for over 30 years. Since retiring, Mr. Srinivasan has been involved in preparing Country Procurement Assessments and assisting implementation of reform projects in various countries.

Sample of Selected Faculty

Allan V. Burman, President, Jefferson Solutions, Former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, United States Government

Julia Paschal Davis, Frmr. Procurement Principal Counsel and Division Director, Office of the Maryland Attorney General, Advisor, UNCITRAL

Jason Matechak, General Counsel at International Relief and Development (IRD), Rule of Law Officer at American Bar Association Section of International Law, Fmr Partner Reed Smith LLP

2013 ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING

  

DATES:	AUG 19 - 30, 2013
TUITION:	$3950

 

 

 

 

Overview

This course offers an intensive experience in drafting legislation. The course assists participants in mastering legislative provisions that pose special challenges to legislative drafters. Participants will do several medium-length drafting assignments and draft a longer, complex bill. Some prior experience in legislative drafting or legislation is helpful.

 

Course Outline

  

Drafting a Simple Bill

• Learning to convert a legislative proposal into a bill for introduction in a legislative chamber

 

Drafting Amendments to a Bill and to Law

• Committee "markup" amendments
• "Floor" (whole House) amendments
• Amendments to existing law

 

Instruction on Specialized Legislative Processes

• Working with legislative committee
• Budget and appropriations rules and problems

 

Drafting a Government Grant Program

• Instruction in selection and drafting of legislative language authorizing grants

 

Drafting Government Reorganization

• Establish a Government Agency
• Abolish a Government Agency
• Consolidating Government Agencies
• Savings ("grandfather") clauses
• Transition provisions
• Repeals
  

 

Drafting a Complex Bill

• Organization of Legislative Provisions
• Close Supervision and Review of Drafting Work

 

Course Advisor

Arthur J. Rynearson served as the Deputy Legislative Counsel of the United States Senate from 1999 to 2003. For more than 26 years, he was an attorney-drafter in the Office of the Legislative Counsel, United States Senate, where he drafted thousands of bills, resolutions, and amendments. He has 20 years experience teaching legislative drafting and legislation to foreign parliamentarians, attorneys, and law students. He also served as a legislative researcher for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He is a graduate of the Cornell University Law School, where he specialized in international legal affairs, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College, where he majored in Government.

2013 COURT AND CASE ADMINISTRATION FOR COURT ADMINISTRATORS

  

DATES:	AUG 5 - 16, 2013
TUITION:	$3950

 

 

 

Overview 

Court Administrators, Clerks of the Court and other Court Administrative Officials have to contend with constant changes and increasing complexity in the Court Administration environment. This seminar focuses on the principles and techniques for the development and administration of a modern, efficient, fair and transparent court system, from a court administrator’s perspective. References will be made to the experience of court administrators in the United States as a basis for discussion. The seminar will include presentations on case and document management for the efficient processing of cases through the courts, as well as site visits to local federal and state courts and court support institutions. Selected sessions and site visits will be combined with the “Judicial, Court and Case Management for Judges” seminar which will be conducted concurrently with this seminar.

 

Course Outline

Basic Concepts and Principles (presented concurrently with Judicial Seminar)

• Overview of the United States legal system and its component state court systems
• The role of an independent judiciary in trial and appellate courts
• Court structures
• Fundamental principles of judicial management and court administration

 

General Issues of Judicial and Court Administration

• Court administration at the national level, regional and local level
• Non-judicial court management
• Court staff integrity: ethics and codes of conduct for court managers

 

Specific Issues of Judicial Management

• Budget and finance
• Space and facilities
• Legislative and public affairs statistics
• Court staff training
• Strategic and long-range planning
  

 

Case Management (presented concurrently with Judicial Seminar)

• Case management principles and practices
• Evaluation of court procedures and case processing
• Developing and implementing a case management plan
• Establishing a case management system
• Technology for case management
• An efficient clerk's office: filing and other systems

 

Course Advisor

James G. Apple is currently President of the International Judicial Academy, a non-profit educational institution in the District of Columbia which he founded in 1999. He was formerly a senior staff officer at the Federal Judicial Center, the U.S. federal courts’ agency for education, training and research. He has conducted or co-conducted almost 100 seminars and conferences on issues of judicial and court administration and other topics related to modern court systems for judges and court and legal officers from countries around the world.

2013 EMPLOYMENT CONFLICT - AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN DEVELOPMENT

  

DATES:	JUL 8 - 19, 2013
TUITION:	$3950

 

 

 

 

Overview

This seminar focuses on building conflict and dispute resolution skills in the employment/ labour arena, by utilizing various mechanisms including negotiation, mediation/conciliation and arbitration. The development of these skills will take place in the context of analyzing the necessary systems, processes and policies which may assist in the effective resolution of labour and employment conflicts. Negotiation and mediation exercises, role- plays, case studies, and a simulated labour arbitration will be utilized to build skills and facilitate a deeper understanding of these fundamentally important mechanisms. A round table discussion focusing on issues identified by participants will conclude the seminar. As workplaces are diverse, emphasis will be placed on the cross-cutting and essential employment conflict- and dispute resolution skills which will apply in different environments. Managers, supervisors, trade union officials and legal practitioners will benefit from this seminar.

 

Course Outline

  

Setting the Context for Labor Conflict - and Dispute Resolution

• Key aspects of Labor and Employment Law (also referencing some important International Labor Conventions and Recommendations)
• Individual employment, versus the collective (trade union) labor relationship
• Workplace conflict: understanding its causes, dynamics and implications
• Setting up policies and systems to facilitate workplace conflict prevention and resolution
• Key policies and their implementation – grievances, discipline, performance, changing operational needs
• Employment termination – misconduct; incompetence/incapacity; operational reasons

 

Labor Conflict and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

• Negotiation (Styles; Approaches; Negotiation Process; Skills; Techniques)
• Mediation (Principles; Mediation Process; Role of Mediator; Skills; Techniques)
• Hybrid processes
• Arbitration (Labor Arbitration Mechanisms; Agreement; Arbitration Process; Stages; Role of Arbitrator; Skills; Techniques)

 

Course Advisor

Gerhard Botha Gerhard Botha is Director of Programs at ILI. Previously, he worked for the World Bank as a senior sector specialist in legal and judicial reform and private and financial sector development. Mr. Botha specialized in labour/employment law and relations, conflict resolution and negotiations, both in private practice and within a large corporate environment in Southern Africa. He has over 25 years experience in legal and labour relations practice, and in international development. Mr. Botha holds B.A. and LL.B degrees from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, an LL.M in Labour Law, from the University of South Africa and an LL.M focusing on labour/ employment law and Alternate Dispute Resolution, from The George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.