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Instituting eGovernment Procurement in Nepal

1 June 2016
e-Government procurement (e-GP) promotes transparency, quality, and economic development as proven by Nepal’s experience. The new e-GP system of Nepal eases the access of national and international bidders to procurement opportunities; reduces turnaround time across the public procurement cycle…

Bangladesh We Have Not Forgotten You Unusual Partnerships for Prisoners

26 April 2016
Officials from several ministries, the Prison Directorate, and the Bangladesh Police have undertaken a number of visits abroad to observe first-hand how other countries organise their criminal justice systems. Recommendations were developed based on the learnings from the trips and possible reform…

Sri Lanka Road Investments Building and Maintaining Trust and Partnership

26 April 2016
A Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) by ADB of $800 million to the road sector in Sri Lanka is the culmination of a development towards an approach where development partners align to the government policy framework. As an essential part of this development of a close and trustful partnership,…

Matching Skills and Labour Markets in Sri Lanka ResultsBased Lending as Reform Vehicle

26 April 2016
The technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector in Sri Lanka is reforming at sector level because of strong early champions in the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP) and, subsequently, change agents at sector level with strong network and knowledge both about the MoFP and the…

Indonesia Incentives Innovations and Replication Local Governance Improvements for Better Services for All

26 April 2016
Indonesia introduced a dramatic decentralization in 2001 – but local governments (LGs) often lacked sufficient capacity to deliver. The USAID-supported Indonesia Local Governance Service Improvement (Kinerja) program focused on incentives, empowering citizens to demand better services; on…

Myanmar Working with Incentives and Identifying Common Ground to Produce a Collaborative Inclusive Fisheries Law

26 April 2016
The Rakhine Fisheries Law is a new benchmark for Myanmar both in terms of delivering equitable resource sharing and, crucially, as a replicable model for consultation and public participation in policy-making. This case demonstrates that despite decades of repressive state machinery, with the right…

Social Protection Reform in the Philippines A Virtuous Governance Circle

26 April 2016
Pantawid Pamilya (CCT program) has become the cornerstone of social protection reforms in the Philippines. The program has five key design elements: (i) the selection of program beneficiaries based on uniform, objective, verifiable criteria; (ii) a systemic feedback mechanism for people to ask…

Taxing Properties and Managing Land The Many Pathways on a Long Journey in the Philippines

26 April 2016
Land management and real property tax reform have at least a forty-year history in the Philippines, underlining the immense political, social, technical, and institutional challenges of reforms in this area. The Asian Development Bank-financed REGALA project and its predecessor, the AusAID-financed…

Philippines Critical Ethnographys Application in Governance Upholding Indigenous Peoples Rights and Addressing Conflicts

26 April 2016
The Philippine’s Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997 recognizes, respects, and promotes four bundles of rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/ Indigenous Peoples: right to Ancestral Domain; right to self-governance and empowerment; social justice and human rights; and right to cultural…

Community Rural Electrification in Nepal

10 April 2016
Nepal faces significant challenges in rural electrification, with less than 35% of the rural population electrified. Much has been done to address this such as increasing the grid-connected electrification rate in areas without electricity and empowering Electricity Users Cooperatives (EUCs). This…