44. 采购处正在定期跟进国家代表和区域办事处主任，提醒他们捐助方希望增加国家一级的合作型采购数量，同时与他们共享其他国家在合作型采购方面经验的最佳做法，特别是坦桑尼亚和津巴布韦。正在为选定国家拟定国别采购战略，在这些国家，协调统一联合国采购是各项战略的关键行动点之一。另外，已制定选定国家国家办事处采购协调人的特别职权范围，并将之与绩效评价和发展相挂钩，以加强业务问责和权力下放。此外，已建立有关国家办事处一级采购合作现状的数据库。
44. The Procurement Services Branch is regularly following up with country representatives and regional office directors, reminding them of the expectations from donors to increase the volume of collaborative procurement at country level, but also sharing with them good practices from other countries with experience in collaborative procurement, especially Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Country-specific procurement strategies are being produced for selected countries, where harmonization of United Nations procurement is one of the key action points in the strategies. Further, special terms of reference for country office procurement focal points in selected countries have been developed and linked with their PADs, toreinforce accountability and decentralization of operations. In addition, a database capturing the status of procurement collaboration at country office level has been established.