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Results of the TA 3948-MON: Capacity Building for Integrated Regional Development
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Several decades of work in Mongolia have resulted in widespread acceptance of the need to address issues surrounding regional development and planning. Many considerations and discussions relate to
The Regional Development Concept (RDC) and the Law on Regionalized Development Management and Coordination adopted by the Parliament of Mongolia in June 2001 and in May 2003 establish a legal environment for balanced development and growth for different regions in Mongolia.
At the request from the Government of Mongolia (GOM), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided advisory Technical Assistance (TA) to support efforts to strengthen Government of Mongolia’s policy, planning and implementation strategies for the RDC.
The overall goal of the TA is to support balanced and equitable regional development in Mongolia.
The original objectives of the TA, as agreed between the ADB and GOM were to:
Components and Principle outputs
Activities of the TA were conducted in 4 components. Component A was focused principally on enhancing the economic foundation for the RDC and supporting strengthened public policy analysis. It was also to establish the framework within which the later work, and particularly the preparation of an integrated medium term development strategy, would be undertaken.
The principal activities undertaken under Component A were the following:
Component B comprised training for Government officials in an overseas training institution. That training was undertaken at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Australia was deemed a suitable country in which to provide the training because of certain similarities to Mongolia, particularly:
Training in Australia was provided for 20 government officials and served to considerably increase their knowledge about many aspects of regional development and use of market economy principles in regional development policy.
Advice on methodological aspects of regional development was provided in the form of Policy Advisory Papers and Occasional Papers. Workshops and a conference were organized to promote wider participation in the formulation of regional development plans.
The Technical Assistance helped the Government of Mongolia to analyze and assess regional development issues, including a Review of the Regional Development Concept and the Medium-Term Regional Development Strategy [ PDF: 1,572kb | 102 pages ] from economic, financial, institutional, organizational and legal aspects. Workshops and conferences [ PDF: 937kb | 102 pages ] organized under the TA generated wide discussion and interest from both government and donor agencies and provided a new approach and methodology in which to discuss regional development issues.
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