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Fourth fire-side conversation at www.PFMBoard.com

mauro napodano created a new event | 16 January 2012

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Dear All, for our fourth fire-side conversation online, we at the Board have the honour to have with us Matthew Andrews. He is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, and commentator on governance in development. He manages his blog on Governance reform in international...

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Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Built on Dreams, Grounded in Reality: Economic Policy in the Philippines

Jaime Faustino uploaded a new Document | 12 January 2012

philippine_economic_policy_reform_book_november_2011.pdf 17.71 MB

That “politics matters” in development is canonical. The challenge for development agencies and practitioners is how to incorporate this murky, complex, non-technical reality. Based on case studies of seven major Philippine economic policy issues, a new book seeks to contribute to our understanding...

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Group: Political Economy in Practice
Budget Support Can't Buy Reform But It Can Support It

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 3 January 2012

Several European Commission evaluations confirm that Budget Support can be a useful instrument to support policy implementation and reforms in developing countries. But it can only contribute to positive change, experts warn, if there is a strong political commitment from partner governments.

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6th Annual DeLoG Meeting (May 2011) Paul Smoke: Fiscal Decentralization and Linkages to Public Financial Management

Herrero Alisa updated the Document | 16 December 2011

dpwg_decentralization_and_pfm_smoke.ppt 137 KB

This presentation, delivered by Paul Smoke, gives an overview of the current state of local finance systems in many developed and developing countries. It also presents the major constraints when linking Public Financial Management (PFM) to decentralization reforms and what role the international...

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Group: Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
6th Annual DeLoG Meeting (May 2011) World Bank: Sub-National Monitoring and Impact Evaluation

Herrero Alisa updated the Document | 16 December 2011

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This presentation, delivered by Kai Kaiser (World Bank) focuses on the importance of using performance monitoring systems and measuring results when implementing decentralisation reforms. The cases of the Indonesia decentralisation reform and the Bosnia-Herzegovina Municipal PFM and Service...

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Group: Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
FitzFord, PFM Boarder of the Year 2011

mauro napodano posted Information | 16 December 2011

According to tradition, soon after Time Magazine nominates its 'Person of the Year', the partners at www.PFMBoard.com nominate the 'PFM Boarder of the Year' . In 2010 it was Albani in Kosovo http://pfmboard.com/index.php?topic=1173.0 . This year we travel to the East Coast of USA: FitzFord is the...

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Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Attendees Prepare for the EU Development Days 2011

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 14 December 2011

Some 1,000 development practitioners, policy makers and representatives from donor and partner countries are arriving in Warsaw, Poland, for this year's European Development Days on the 15 and 16 December 2011.

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Igniting Change: A Strategy for Universal Adoption of Clean Cookstoves and Fuels

Innocent Onah uploaded a new Document | 6 December 2011

Igniting-Change-2011-2-MB-low-res.pdf 2.62 MB

A Dangerous and Unhealthy Reality. In an era of cell phones, satellites, and the Internet, it can often be hard to believe that almost half the world’s population still cooks food, boils water, and warms their homes by burning wood, dung, other biomass, and coal in open fires or rudimentary...

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
PFM Strengthening: Capacity Development and the Change Management Nexus

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 1 December 2011

Effective capacity development involves understanding and supporting change management processes, according to consultants Carole Pretorius and Nico Pretorius who took part in a special capacity development workshop in Brussels recently.

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Actors of the Development Community Focus on Youth as World Population Tops 7 Billion

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 25 November 2011

The world passed a collective milestone in October when the planet’s human population topped 7 billion drawing some development professionals to consider the impact of such a large, and in the developing world, increasingly youthful population.

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