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Issue 23 • January 2009
Now Online:
Results Matter January 2009
Results Matter is a newsletter published by the Results Management Unit
of ADB. It provides a platform for sharing ideas and experiences on managing
for development results.
In Results Matter:
> MfDR
Consultation Work with Development Partners
During 17–27 November 2008, Results Management Unit staff visited
five bilateral and multilateral agencies to exchange knowledge and share
experiences in MfDR at the institutional and country operations levels.
> Progress
Reports from Developing Countries
Members of the Community of Practice on MfDR share updates on how their
countries are progressing in their MfDR work. This article features
reports from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, and Viet Nam.
Outcome
Mapping
Outcome mapping is a method for planning, monitoring, and evaluating activities
of development agencies to see if they bring social change. It shifts
the focus from changes in state, like reduced poverty, to changes in behaviors,
relationships, actions, and activities.
New Additions to the MfDR Resource Center
- Community
Voices in Health Policy Effectiveness Measuring Development Effectiveness
of Health
- Measuring
Development Effectiveness in Environment: Progress and Challenges
- Achieving
Development Effectiveness in Weakly Performing Countries
- Incentives
for Aid Effectiveness in Donor Countries: Good Practice and Self-Assessment
Tool
- Viet Nam - Managing Public
Resources Better: Public Expenditure Review 2000
- Learning
to Evaluate the Impact of Aid
Country Spotlight:
Indonesia
Asian Development Bank (ADB) assessments have identified several constraints
on Indonesia's development, which the country strategy and program aims
to help the Government address. Absence of a stable and consistent legal
and regulatory environment, together with proliferating local taxes and
regulations, are two factors impeding investment. Infrastructure provision
is lower than in many other countries in the region. Capital markets and
nonbank financial institutions are relatively small. Decentralization
has left many uncertainties in the relations among levels of government,
and weak local capacities. Low development spending is accompanied by
weak public sector management. Development spending needs to be increased
to attain higher economic growth with job creation, reduce poverty, and
accelerate the achievement of the MDGs.
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