Program Components and Activities
PPP offers demand-driven learning programs as a response to the priority capacity building needs of the GMS officials. PPP aims to develop and offer signature courses, which are GMS in scope and content. The learning programs are designed along these themes:
- Leadership and General Development Management: Leadership, Strategic Management, Planning, Human Resource Management, Project Design and Feasibility, Public Policy and Public Management.
- Cross Cutting topics: Governance, Regional Cooperation, Private Sector Development and Special Skills.
- Sector Specific: Environment, Education, Infrastructure, Health, Labor Markets, Tourism and Trade.
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The Top Development Management Program (TDMP) is a high quality,
learning program for ministers and senior officials of the GMS.
The GMS leaders will
- gain new perspectives and insights on development issues in
Asia, particularly in the GMS
- strengthen their strategic management competencies in designing
and delivering a complex development agenda.
Topics to be covered will include Leadership, Governance, Regional
Cooperation and State Reforms. The program will be offered once
every year during the GMS Ministerial Conference.
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An eminent person will speak on a special topic of relevance to
regional cooperation and development in the GMS. The speaker will
share his/her knowledge and experience on a particular topic with
the target audience that will typically comprise senior government officials, members of the international development community, business leaders, NGOs, and the media. The lecture will be open to the public.
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GMS: CLIMATE MAKERS OR CLIMATE TAKERS?
Understanding and Responding to the Challenges of Climate Change
The Second GMS Development Dialogue (GDD-2) is on the topic of climate change - an inevitable global phenomenon with profound consequences on natural resources and physical spaces, production and consumption patterns, livelihoods and lifestyles. GDD-2 was held on 21 May 2008, Tuesday, from 0900-1210 hrs. ADB’s Thailand Resident Mission (TRM) in Bangkok was the host site for the dialogue.The Dialogue was linked through video conferencing facilities in the ADB Resident Missions in Phnom Penh, Beijing, Vientiane, and Hanoi where a wider audience in the GMS countries took part in the discussions.
The GMS Development Dialogue (GDD) was initiated in 2006 under the PPP framework to provide a platform for a cross-sectoral debate on development issues among government, academe, private sector, civil society organizations, and media. The dialogue process is envisaged to help decision makers broaden their perspectives, appreciate the wider implications of critical policy choices, and identify areas for possible collaboration. The first GDD was held on 5 September 2006 on the topic of Energy Security in the GMS.
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The PPP Fellowship Program will provide exceptional PPP alumni
with opportunities for further education to enable them to become
leaders in the GMS governments.
Fellowships will be granted on a competitive basis to
candidates in various PPP Fellowship fields of study, including
leadership, strategic management, development management, public
policy, regional cooperation and governance.
A key feature of the program is the Fellows Action Plan. Each fellow
will submit an action plan specifying how he, or she, will apply
the studies to address problems or issues in his or her institution,
or place of work.
The PPP expects all fellows to work on the plan following the fellowship
period.
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PPP Learning Resource Center 
The Learning Resource Center is established in the premises
of the ADB's Cambodia Resident Mission. View map.
It enables public access to ADB and GMS databases, and to a
variety of research and learning materials on development issues
in general, and GMS issues in particular.
The LRC will house a library (hard copies and electronic files)
and an internet facility (6 computers) that will network across
the six GMS countries, PPP partners and development institutions.
The LRC offers to the public a wide range of facilities and
services that will stimulate development thinking, and provide access
to top of the line knowledge and information available on the GMS.
With the LRC, the GMS has a one-stop shop knowledge source
and an information gateway on the subregion. It will be a depository
of information that will provide the general public with access
to development related multimedia publications. Computer terminals
will give access to online reports and documents of the ADB and
other GMS databases.
The LRC will also serve as the hub for all videoconferencing activities
of the PPP. It will be equipped with videoconferencing facilities
from where PPP may conduct some of its learning programs and GMS
development management dialogues.
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The PPP is inviting research proposals for 2009 to be funded by a research grant under the PPP Research Program.
The PPP Research Program seeks to support GMS institutions involved in research by providing them with resources to undertake studies on important development issues, with particular focus on those involving regional/subregional concerns. It is envisaged that the Program will promote knowledge generation, innovation and value-addition to research in the GMS as well as contribute to harnessing knowledge for more informed policy choices in the GMS countries.
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To encourage academic research and discourse on the GMS, and to promote a GMS research agenda, a journal will be published under the auspices of the PPP. The journal will be released semi-annually.
The Journal invites original contributions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners dealing with GMS development issues. The articles should have a strong emphasis on the policy implications flowing from the analysis. Analytical book reviews will also be considered for publication. All submitted manuscripts are subject to review by two referees.
Manuscripts may be sent by email to editorsgmsjournal@adb.org or by mail to the Editor, Journal of GMS
Development Studies, c/o of the Director, Social Sectors Division, Southeast
Asia Regional Department, Asian Development Bank, 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong
City, 1550, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Authors can also be guided by observing the style used in published articles in the Journal.
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