Government picking selected persons for foreign paid jobs

Jul 19, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
A colleague disclosed to me that there was collusion in the procurement of staff for projects and the matter was reported to the local IDB and the Office of Institutional Integrity (OII) in Washington. The person asked me to send this information because she/he does not have a personal computer and prefers to remain anonymous. Your investigative journalists may wish to investigate this given your recent reports on the project.
Apparently, the project staff according to the ToR must have Masters Degrees plus years of experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation etc. Salaries are around USD$2200 a month. The persons short listed for the interviews were cherry picked.
According to this person, the persons from the government who conducted the interviews and evaluated the applicants are unqualified to do so because they have ONLY a first degree and no specialized training or experience in project management , and monitoring and evaluation etc. In other words, they are less qualified than the applicants. And more importantly are untrained in conducting high level interviews. For example, my colleague tells me that the persons on the panel of interviewers only has a first degree.
What is most disturbing about all this is that at the interviews there is no representative of the IDB to provide oversight of the process. The IDB only gets the outcome of the process. The interviewers just arbitrarily assign points to a candidate, based on some unknown criteria.
If the process is vitiated, then the outcome of that process would be wrong. The person believes that the APNU/AFC is guilty of the same thing they have accused the PPP/C of doing. I trust you will handle this matter with your usual discretion and confidentiality and do not disclose your sources.
Concerned whistleblower

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