Event update

Asia-Pacific, African, and Latin American partners deliver messages on results
Senior officials from partner countries and donors endorsed the Seoul Statement on Results, the first interregional voice on MfDR, at the regional forum on 21-22 September in Seoul.

Background

The Forum will bring together senior government officials from the three Communities of Practice on Managing for Development Results from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America regions for continued learning and exchange of good practices on results-based public sector management (RB-PSM). The purpose will be to identify key messages on RB-PSM which will inform the Busan Document of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) to be held in Busan from 29 November to 1 December, 2011. The Forum’s outputs will also support a strong partner country voice on results at the Germany-OECD workshop in Berlin on 28-29 September 2011 which will also inform HLF-4. The Forum is being hosted by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance with the support from OECD and is being jointly organized by the Asian Development Institute at Seoul National University, and the three CoPs.

Objectives

At the end of the workshop, participants will have:

• familiarized themselves with the basic features of RB-PSM, learned about global trends and approaches on PSM components of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, and  RB-PSM experiences under different government  contexts;
• formulated consolidated messages on RB-PSM and its role in building an effective public sector;
• finalized the “Seoul Statement” of partner country messages on the importance of mainstreaming results approaches into public sector management, and
• formulated messages on results to be incorporated in the next draft of the Busan Document that will be discussed in Paris in early October.

Expected outputs

• Consolidated messages on RB-PSM and its role in building an effective public sector.
• “Seoul Statement” of partner country messages t on the importance of  mainstreaming results approaches into public sector management.
• Messages on results to be incorporated in the next draft of the Busan Document that will be discussed in Paris in early October.

Target participants

• Senior government officials in planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation from about 30 countries in Africa,  Asia-Pacific, and Latin America regions
• OECD
• Bilateral and multilateral partners

Resource speakers

• Annmaree O’Keeffe AM
• Annette Brown
• Allen Schick
• Jose Edgardo Campos
• James Lamont