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16 September 2016
Co-Director of the 2017 World Development Report Yongmei Zhou presented on how a better understanding of governance can bring about more effective policy interventions to achieve sustainable improvements in development outcomes. The report is World Bank's major analytical publication produced…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
12 September 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are officially known as “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” and they are acting as the Post 2015 Development Agenda, successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There are 17 goals, 169 targets, and 233 indicators…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
22 August 2016
The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Framework was established in 2001 to provide a mechanism to assess public financial management performance (PFM) that would be usable by any country. It was expected to produce a common pool of data to help countries and their development…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
5 August 2016
Over the last couple of years, UNDP Asia Pacific has taken concentrated on innovation with modest investments to encourage staff to experiment with new ideas outside traditional project cycles, challenge business as usual, and engage with new and non-traditional partners. Despite a few challenges…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
4 to 8 July 2016
Managing for Development Results (MfDR) is an approach to management that orients policies, institutions, and individuals to focus more on results than activities and inputs to achieve intended outcomes. MfDR is recognized as a key approach to development effectiveness.
In line with its aim of…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
15 June 2016
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Gambhir Bhatta, Srinivasan Janardanam, and Anouj Mehta discussed the main results of and lessons from the forum organized by World Bank and the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants from 17 to 18 May 2016 in Malaysia’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur. They also…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
23 to 27 May 2016
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been used holistically to bolster financial and managerial capacities of local governments and municipal service providers; manage urban traffic, and increase the competence and autonomy of urban water supply, as well as sanitation and solid waste…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office
28 April 2016
Maternal mortality and teenage pregnancy are health concerns in some Indonesian districts. The event discussed how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Kinerja supported institutional reforms to address the issues, and reduced cases of child marriage births to mothers…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
26 to 28 April 2016
Organized by ADB's Governance Thematic Group in cooperation with the OECD-DAC Network on Governance and the German International Cooperation (GIZ)'s Sector Network Governance Asia, this learning event on Meet Lucy: New Ideas in Governance – Do They Work in Practice? enabled participants to assess…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
21 March 2016
ADB, in collaboration with the German International Cooperation (GIZ) and the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center, and in partnership with the Government of the Philippines' Office of the Ombudsman, organized this high-level event with panel discussion on Evaluating and Monitoring Anti-Corruption…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office