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world , offering a range of highly-valued training courses . Sam Achampong , Regional Head & General Manager of CIPS MENA , believes that this is crucial to the upskilling of the procurement field . “ We work very closely with companies to create a licensed procurement function whereby everyone in their procurement team is qualified to do procurement . We have created the infrastructure to make qualifications available through an increased number of study centres , universities and accredited degrees . For people , we have also set up a number of professional networks that support these people so that they can continue to share knowledge .” Achampong also underlines the importance of working with local communities , noting : “ The key thing is for us to be working with local people in this region , so we ’ ve worked very hard with the prominent local organisations to make sure that we are helping the capability development of Middle East locals to get credible procurement qualifications and skills .”
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