East Asia & the Pacific Regional Programs

GDLN-EAPA website
GDLN website

EAPA includes all of the region's Distance Learning Centers, government organizations, donors and various program partners, focused on developing regional learning products and activities for the GDLN. It's members currently include organizations from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Philippine, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Thailand and Vietnam. EAPA's biannual meetings become a forum for knowledge exchange and consultation between the Bank and its partners on a number of policy and operational issues, including network changes, needs analysis, quality assurance and evaluation, business administration, pricing policies, funding acquisition, and the technology-pedagogy interface. The EAPA Secretariat is currently chaired by Korea and has four key roles: (i) to nurture new DLCs; (ii) to broker content and identify joint activities; (iii) to serve as an advocate on behalf of other EAP DLCs; and (iv) to foster communications between DLCs.

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infoCity is a new "city-to-city networking initiative" for municipal capacity building, works in partnership with municipal associations in Asia. The initiative aims at connecting municipal leaders and officials with each other and to global knowledge and funding opportunities nimbly. The project builds on existing knowledge sharing networks of municipal associations and introduces a range of tools that enable civic leaders, municipal officials and the development community to exchange their latest hands-on practices and innovations on city management. These tools include internet-based platforms for knowledge sharing and communication; face -to-face workshops with video-conferencing; and web-based multi-lingual Q&A forum and other discussion spaces that facilitate exchanges among peers across cities and countries. infoCity initiative helps cities improve their development action plans and links their priority programs to potential sources of funds.

Citi Aliance website

EASUR has been conducting a Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) program titled “Connecting Cities to Global Knowledge and Resources.” This program aims to facilitates city-to-city (C2C) knowledge sharing on strategic issues among local governments, especially among City Development Strategies (CDS) participating cities in Asia by creating an enabling environment for cities to exchange their hands-on knowledge each other. This program has three key features: i) Wholesaling approach for scaling up capacity building for local governments; ii) integration with lending operations; and iii) Hands-on capacity building through city-to-city knowledge sharing. Asia Learning Reflections Video Series: Interviews with Task Managers The videos in the "Reflections" series provide Task Managers the opportunity to look back and reflect upon their
experiences on projects across their region. In the interviews, the Task Managers reply -- with unrehearsed answers -- to the thought-provoking questions on key project and development issues posed by Mr. Narendra Sharma, East Asia & the Pacific-South Asia Regional Learning Advisor. Some of the valuable knowledge shared in these reflective conversations is not captured or recorded in any other place in the Bank. These video interviews are powerful, stand-alone learning tools. They can be used to initiate a class discussion, a brown bag lunch, or for anyone to use in self-directed
learning. These videos have been placed on the World Bank's regional Intranet to share with colleagues across the organization.