Results Matter March 2007 (Special Issue on the Third International Roundtable
on MfDR)
ADB Developing Member Countries Play a Lead Role at MfDR International Roundtable
By Gil-Hong Kim, Principal Results Management Specialist
ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda with OECD-DAC Chair Richard Manning (left) and
World Bank OPCS Vice President Jeffrey
Gutman (right).It was opened by Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam, Pham Gia Khiem. ADB Vice
President Greenwood introduced the key note speaker, Mr. Xu Lin, Director General
of National Development and Reform Commission, People’s Republic of China,
at the opening plenary and facilitated the Asia-Pacific regional session. President
Kuroda delivered closing remarks at the final plenary session.
More than 500 participants, representing developing countries, donors, civil
society, and the private sector, participated in the Roundtable. Seventeen of
the 40 participating developing countries were ADB members. These were Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji Islands, India, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic
Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, People’s Republic
of China, Tajikistan, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Viet Nam.
The Roundtable focused on how best to build country’s capacity for Managing
for Development Results (MfDR). ADB assisted its developing member countries
(DMCs) in playing a leading role at the event. The ADB-sponsored Community of
Practice on MfDR in the Asia and Pacific region was also showcased as an innovative
capacity-building approach.
The Roundtable also hosted a Results Marketplace of ideas and emerging “good
practices” on how countries and development partners are working to improve
results-based management around the world. Posters displayed by our DMCs are
presented in this special issue of Results Matter.
Discussions at the Roundtable were anchored around five key themes: leadership
and accountability, monitoring and evaluation, mutual accountability and partnerships,
planning and budgeting, and statistics. Participants noted that implementing
MfDR in developing countries has significantly progressed. However, they stressed
that to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, all countries and development
partners should further improve their management of resources to achieve better,
verifiable development results, guided by a commitment to mutual accountability.
The Roundtable reaffirmed the importance of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
to improve aid practices and effectiveness, and established a key milestone
along the journey to the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be
convened in Ghana in September 2008.
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