As part of the new procurement procedures and improved services, I am happy to remind you of the possibility to request your allotted procurement officer to make credit card payments for you.

So if you need to (pre)pay a Hotel, conference, training, book or any other low value item from an on line store, you  can just your procurement officer to arrange it for you.

The attached procedures describe the exact detailed procedure, but  all you really need to know is:

• Send a request by Email to your allotted procurement officer (for regional offices: Gertrude Matua in Nairobi: Matua@Cgiar.org)
• The request must be accompanied by an (budget) activity code and a link to the website and article that needs to be ordered/paid.
• The request must be made by the budget holder or the budget holder should provide their approval by mail (below the requesting mail in the string, or as a follow up)
• Needs to be an item that can be single sourced, So under 500$, or a hotel accommodation or preferred supplier
• Procurement officer will forward request to finance and order and payment will be placed within 2x24hrs

In case of any questions, or feedback on these services, feel free to contact the Supply chain manager in Nairobi, Richard Basil  R.Basil@cgiar.org, in Addis Habtamu Fekadu H.Fekadu@cgiar.org or the Head of finance, Robert Nzioka R.Nzioka@cgiar.org

Misja Brandenburg | Director Corporate Services