 Keynote
Presentation at the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Roundtable
on MfDR This roundtable, held on 2 September 2008 at the
3rd High Level Forum in Accra, Ghana, focused on the role of donors in
achieving development results, through accountability and monitoring of
corruption. The keynote presentation was given by V. Sivagnanasothy, Director
General of the Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring of Ministry
of Plan Implementation in Sri Lanka. He is also a member of the Asia-Pacific
Community of Practice on MfDR.
See also:
 Capacity
Development for Results-Based Management: Social Sector Agencies in a
Decentralized Context
This leaflet summarizes the experiences and lessons learned in implementing
Regional Technical Assistance (RETA) 6218 on Decentralization in Social
Sectors, which was implemented between 2005-2007. A crucial objective
of RETA 6218 was to identify and share lessons on how client countries’
decentralization policies and strategies help or hinder results-based
management approaches, and how ADB may facilitate a more results-oriented
approach. Education and health agencies in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Mongolia
participated in the RETA.
 High-Level
Forum Preparatory Consultations in Asia
Three Preparatory Consultation Workshops took place in Bangkok, Thailand,
for East and South Asia on April 21-22, for South Asia on May 5-6, and
for Central and West Asia on May 8-9. These consultations were sponsored
by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the UK Department for International
Development (DFID), the European Commission (EC), the Government of Japan,
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank.
ADB has launched a website highlighting its involvement in the preparation
for the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness on 2-4 September in
Africa. The site focuses on subregional consultation workshops held recently
and is designed to solicit views of stakeholders on HLF-3 documents.
To
deepen understanding of aid effectiveness issues, build ownership of the
Accra agenda, and develop broad consensus around key issues, the international
community is conducting a number of consultation meetings before the Third
HLF. These consultations include representatives of partner countries,
non-traditional donors and other providers of development aid, and civil
society. The consultation with South Asian countries was held on 6-8 May
in Bangkok. See
meeting documentation
ADB is set for a change in the way it serves its developing member countries
in a rapidly evolving and dynamic Asia-Pacific region, ADB President Haruhiko
Kuroda said at the official opening of the organization’s 41st Annual
Meeting in Madrid on 5 May 2008.
 The
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched Strategy 2020, a new long-term
strategy for its vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty.
To fight poverty in a region of more than 600 million poor people surviving
on $1 a day, Strategy 2020 will refocus ADB operations on three development
agendas—inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth,
and regional integration.
Each country page spotlights MfDR-related technical assistance projects,
case studies, and other documents. It also provides relevant links.
On
2-4 September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral
and multilateral development agencies, donor organizations, and civil
society organizations from around the world will gather in Accra, Ghana,
for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Their common objective
is to help developing countries and marginalized people in their fight
against poverty by making aid more transparent, accountable and results-oriented.
The guide explains the main principles of results management and the
implications of implementing it in an organization. The online edition
was developed to make the publication more user-friendly and available
to a wider audience.
 Governments
around the world are fiduciary owners of billions of dollars of equity
capital. Often, especially in transition economies, governments hold majority
ownership of their country’s largest enterprises. However, the civil
service employees that are designated as caretakers of these government-controlled
corporations typically have little experience or training in portfolio
management, enterprise performance measurement, or strategic management.
This book is written to provide analytical guidance based on international
best practices in the area of state-owned enterprise (SOE) performance
management and corporate governance. In short, the book contains a road
map for governments to use the balanced scorecard (BSC) to better manage
their public sector organizations.
 Talking
Poverty in Afghanistan
ADB's MfDR Cooperation Fund has provided
a grant to conduct a pilot participatory poverty assessment in Afghanistan.
Over the past five months, three member organizations of the Agency Coordinating
Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) have facilitated in-depth discussions about
poverty and the effects it has on the lives of ordinary Afghans. The discussions
have been held with men and women in eight communities in four of Afghanistan’s
34 provinces.
The results of this project will help guide the government of Afghanistan
and the international community in the finalization of the Afghanistan
National Development Strategy – the road map for the country’s
continued reconstruction and development.
 Building
a Results-Based M&E System in Sri Lanka
The Government of Sri Lanka is institutionalizing the concept of “managing
for results” set out in the Paris Declaration. The Ministry of Plan
Implementation has introduced a results-based management and reporting
system to track the development results of line ministries and their programs.
The Government’s 3-year Medium-Term Expenditure Framework also
incorporates outcome-based key performance indicators to justify public
expenditure and helps allocate resources rationally in a results-oriented
manner.
Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka presented cases
that demonstrate their progress in managing for development results at
the South Asia Regional Forum on Mainstreaming MfDR held last 13-14 November
2007.
Acknowledging the need to better capture and report its results on the
ground as part of a new development effectiveness reporting, ADB has initiated
the preparation of development effectiveness country briefs for each of
its developing member countries. The purpose of the country brief is to
provide an overview of ADB's operational effectiveness in the country
in terms of key contributions to development outcomes and aid effectiveness.
The intended impact or goal of this technical assistance project is less
corruption and better development results from the key projects. The intended
outcome or purpose is the provision of detailed and reliable information
related to key project implementation and operational results to key project
implementation offices, project executing agencies, and implementation
enterprises on a regular and real-time basis.
 MfDR
Country Cases in the October 2007 Issue of Results Matter Newsletter
2007
Publication of the Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results
(CoP-MfDR) Asia-Pacific
This 32-page publication introduces the Asia-Pacific Community of Practice
on Managing for Development Results (CoP-MfDR)--its goals, members, and
activities--to a wider audience. It gathers together the many and diverse
voices of the community regarding the topic, results-based monitoring
and evaluation, which is the subject of its ongoing online discussion
for the year.
An
Introduction to Results Management: Russian Translation Now Available
Results management has its roots in business management theories, applied
social research, program evaluation, and expenditure management. The approach,
initially applied in private sector organizations, moved quickly to the
public sector as part of reform efforts in the 1980s and 1990s. Over the
last decade, it has increasingly been implemented in development agencies
and multilateral organizations.
The purpose of this guide is to explain the main principles of results
management and the implications of implementing it in an organization.
 Readiness
Assessment of Public Sector Organizations in South Asia
The South Asia Regional Department (SARD) has developed a tool to assess
the results-based management capacity of a public sector organization and
develop an action plan to address capacity gaps. The tool has been applied
in 10 public sector organizations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri
Lanka. More
 Supporting
Results-Based Sector Approaches in ADB Operations
The regional technical assistance has assisted countries to (i) conduct
results-based management awareness raising seminars; (ii) introduce results-based
budget management; (iii) develop and pilot-test results-based readiness
assessment tools; and (iv) disseminate good practice. See
materials developed under the project
 Progress
Report on MfDR in ADB
Since adopting the Revised Action Plan on
MfDR in August 2006, ADB has continued to take action under each of the
three pillars of the MfDR agenda. Departments and offices are clearly
assuming greater ownership in mainstreaming MfDR. Highlights under each
pillar of the MfDR agenda are set out in this progress
report.
MfDR
Sourcebook, 2nd edition
 The
goal of the MfDR Sourcebook is to increase understanding of the ideas
behind MfDR and show how it is being used in partner countries and international
development agencies. It provides an update on global partnerships, presents
important MfDR concepts, and has case studies at the country, program,
project, agency, and interagency levels.
Technical
and Capacity Readiness Assessment Tool
This MfDR
readiness assessment tool responds to recommendations made at the Third
Roundtable in Hanoi, and to ADB's requirement for results-based country
partnership strategies to conduct sectoral asessments and address identified
gaps in an action plan. Using this tool, assessments for selected agencies
in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan have been prepared under ADB technical
assistance, Mainstreaming
Managing for Development Results in Support of Poverty Reduction in South
Asia.
 Multilateral
Development Banks Common Performance Assessment System
The 2006 Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Common Performance Assessment
System(COMPAS) report, published jointly by the African Development Bank,
Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank, provides information on
how these MDBs conduct business and organize themselves to ensure that
their operations are geared towards results. In this edition, efforts
have been made to improve the definition of performance indicators and
increase the credibility and reliability of the information presented
in it.
 The
Third International Roundtable on MfDR Concludes
More than 400 participants representing developing countries, donors,
civil society, and the private sector attended the Third International
Roundtable on Managing for Development Results (MfDR), held from 5 to
8 February 2007 in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Participating
countries and institutions showcased their experiences in MfDR, and
country as well as regional action plans on MfDR were prepared. The event
made important progress key in areas such as country-led development,
mutual accountability, MfDR capacity assessment, and incentives.
Building Country Capacity to Manage for Development Results
ADB is helping to enhance the capacity of its developing member countries
to manage for results through technical assistance
that aim to introduce MfDR approaches. ADB also facilitates a Community
of Practice on MfDR.
Indonesia's
Results-based Country Strategy and Program 2006-2009
ADB’s strategy for 2006–2009 in Indonesia is to help
the Government achieve higher levels of propoor sustainable growth and
to enhance social development, with a key thematic focus on governance
and anticorruption measures in all operations. |
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