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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: Results-Based 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 Ethnography's Application in Governance – Upholding Indigenous People's 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…

Green Cities and GrEEEn Leaders: Viet Nam Stakeholders and Nguyen Van Cao

1 April 2016
Viet Nam's cities are going green as local leaders adopt the Green Cities approach. Learn more from this case study. Through ADB's Secondary Cities Development Program, Viet Nam is improving basic urban infrastructure in Buon Ma Thuot in the central highland region and the coastal cities of Ha Tinh…

Opportunities and Obstacles to Anti-Corruption Reform and Tools to Assess the Potential for Successful Reform

22 March 2016
Striking an optimal balance between opportunities and deterrents for corruption leads to societal control of this unethical conduct. Effecting change will require the alignment of tools or measures with a domestic movement that is already in place.

Theories of Change for Anti-Corruption Reforms

22 March 2016
This presentation introduces the theory of change (ToC) methodology to advance anti-corruption reform. It explains the distinct features and various components and purposes of a ToC. The steps involved in a ToC development are also discussed.