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Joint Seminar on Beneficial Ownership and EOIR Assessor Training

8 to 12 October 2018
The joint BO seminar / EOIR training aimed to prepare the future assessors and the future assessed jurisdictions for the upcoming EOIR peer reviews under the second round of Reviews. This training was designed to simulate the steps of a real evaluation, combining theory, group participation, and…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Driving Better Results from Public Services in New Zealand

13 September 2018
Iain Rennie, former State Services Commissioner and Head of State Services of New Zealand, discussed his country's contemporary public sector management challenges and assessed the prospects for ongoing innovations in coming years.
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Optimizing Public Services through Digital Government

6 September 2018
Samia Melhem, lead policy officer in World Bank's Transport and ICT Global Practice, is giving a lecture on leveraging digital government for improved public services. She is also underscoring the significance and applicability of the Digital Government Readiness Assessment Toolkit to ADB…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Localizing Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Management for Development Results

27 to 30 August 2018
Over 50 representatives from government, private sector, development partners, and academe shared their experiences and discussed challenges of multi-level governance to ensure that no one gets left behind. This seminar reflected on efforts to localize sustainable development goals through…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Applying Big Data to Public Service Delivery

23 July 2018
Experts from the Philippines, Singapore, and the US shared their experiences on the use of big data and other disruptive technologies, and how these have been applied to public service delivery projects and programs.
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

ADB-ADBI Forum on Governance and Institutions: Issues in State-Owned Enterprise Reforms and Corporate Governance

11 to 13 June 2018
Good governance and effective public management are essential for country and sector development. The message of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Asia 2050 report is clear—better governance is key to determining whether a developing member country (DMC) can accelerate development and inclusive…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

City Finances in Asia and the Pacific: Issues and Reform Options

28 May 2018
The current deficit in investment for financing Asia-Pacific infrastructure is estimated to be more than $1 trillion. Roy Bahl, Regents Professor of Economics emeritus at Georgia State University, presented the long-standing constraints and introduced pragmatic steps towards increased local…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

The Last Mile: Effective Exchange of Information on Request from an Auditor’s Perspective

10 to 12 April 2018
This three-day seminar focused on the connection between domestic tax investigations and information gathering frameworks and the international infrastructure for exchange of information (EOI) on request (“the Last Mile”). This seminar is a joint initiative of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Internet of Things: Translating Hype into Reality

2 March 2018
The Internet of Things will change the world. Or so we hear. Will it really? A newly-released World Bank report examines the evidence on the ground with case studies from different cities around the world.
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Seminar on Property Tax Reform

22 to 23 February 2018
Following the Workshop on Tax Policy for Domestic Resource Mobilization on 20 - 22 February 2018, this seminar is aimed at officials with policy responsibility for property tax. It aims to give an overview of the issues involved in reform, review recent experiences in property tax reform in Asia…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office