Pilot Courses and Clinics

• Pilot Courses
• Clinics

Pilot Courses

• From Assessment to Practice: Action Planning for Governance Reform
  From April 14 to May 21, 2008, the World Bank Institute brought together 30 members of government and civil society from Benin, Burundi, Cameroun and the DRC to learn from each other and the experiences of various countries with governance and anti-corruption initiatives -from assessment to implementation. The workshop took place in an interactive learning and sharing format including web and video-conferencing. The participants were linked virtually across the countries through WBI’s Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) before meeting face to face in Kinshasa for the last two sessions.
  

The workshop aimed to help build engaged communities around governance reform at the country level and used a combination of formal presentations, hands-on-exercises in teams and brainstorming sessions. The program’s objectives included the sharing of experiences on governance and anti-corruption initiatives (with an emphasis on south-south exchanges); identifying challenges and opportunities for governance reform in each participating country and using country data on governance to promote policy reform. Participants also discussed governance reform as a systemic process and the program culminated in their collective engagement in actual action planning for governance reform in their respective countries. The program’s emphasis was on in-country teamwork and collective learning to promote consensus-building and collaboration among stakeholders at the country level.

Workshop Agenda

Session 1: Identifying governance challenges and promoting change

Session 2: Promoting transparency and accountability
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Session 3: Measuring governance: the power of data in the reform profess
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Sessions 4, 5 and 6: Governance and anti-corruption strategies
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• Empirical Tools for Governance Analysis
  Workshop for Latin American Countries (by invitation only)
  November 17-18, 2004

  Recent findings on the relationship between poverty and poor governance have led to the proliferation of empirical tools designed to evaluate governance–from opinion pools to public sector expenditure tracking and in-depth diagnostic surveys. This has posed two major challenges for policymakers and development researchers: (i) to identify the most appropriate tools and use rigorous analysis to support countries' institutional reforms to improve governance; and (ii) to move beyond anecdotal evidence towards a systematic approach for measuring governance and its determinants for economic and social development.
  

  To help to address these challenges, the World Bank Institute has developed an innovative learning program that provides a general framework to evaluate governance built on the lessons learnt about the “what” and the “how”. In the process it offers a systematic overview of the many existing tools used by the World Bank and other policy institutions. This learning activity targets practitioners and policymakers who are, or plan to be, involved in governance issues through assessments and monitoring-related activities, but who have not been given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the range of tools already developed nor with the techniques to use the data collected with such tools. The two-day program include more traditional learning activities as well as interactive, internet-based sessions.

  More information and agenda: English (190 kb PDF); Spanish (142 kb PDF).

  Visit the course website.

• Governance Assessment and Coalition Building
  The main objective of this learning activity is to promote a better understanding among stakeholders of the linkages between governance, coalition building and the reform process. How do we define Governance? What are Coalitions? What role can governance assessment and diagnostics play in coalition building as part of the reform process?
  

Organized by the World Bank Institute.

Target Audience: World Bank Group Staff

Date and Location: January 20–22, 2003 • Lusaka, Zambia

Task Managers: Francesca Recanatini and Sahr Kpundeh

Website: Zambia 2003

• Governance & Anti-Corruption Flagship Course
  Designed for World Bank staff who have to assess and/or confront problems of weak governance and corruption in developing assistance strategies and country programs, this course will:

  • probe the links between politics and governance,
  • discuss key processes and systems that promote transparency and accountability in government decision making,
  • explore the role of civil society organizations, media, and other external actors,
  • survey the wide gamut of diagnostic and assessment instruments, and

  • present country strategies for combating corruption.

  Staff will learn approaches and tools for assessing a country’s governance environment and developing and implementing appropriate interventions. Cross-cutting learning will help staff identify and respond appropriately to governance issues in whatever country context they arise. The course will also give a preview of more advanced courses on specialized areas that require more in-depth treatment.
  

Organized by the World Bank.

Target Audience: World Bank Group Staff

Date and Location: December 1–3, 2003 • Washington, DC

Website: Public Sector

Clinics

• Benin: Research and Capacity Building Workshop: Governance Diagnostic
  The World Bank Institute partnered with the Steadman Center for Applied Research (a Kenyan based institution) to carry out a 2-day training workshop on “Capacity Strengthening for Data Analysis and Presentation” on 28th and 29th March 2007. The workshop was designed to be practical, interactive and example based with particular focus on the recent governance and corruption surveys carried out in Benin by the local firm CERTI with technical assistance from the World Bank Institute. The objectives of the workshop were to re-engage policy makers and steering committee members with the three surveys, to facilitate discussion around a range of possible thematic approaches to the organization and reporting of the survey data and to consider ways in which the survey data might be used to produce action plans and targets for governance and anti-corruption policies.

The curriculum for the two-day workshop was designed to broadly follow the following topics:
* Day one focused on essentials of instrument design and data analysis. Two sessions were included. The first session was centered on survey instrument design and the second session on approaches to data analysis.
* Day two focused on techniques for presenting research findings to influence policy making.

• Presentation Day 1(312 kb PDF)
• Presentation Day 2(180 kb PDF)

• Presentation - Course "Fiduciary Forum" during Learning Week of the World Bank.
  Washington DC, December 2005
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• Presentation addressing the Anti-Corruption Commission from Honduras
  Washington D.C. - December 2005
  PowerPoint presentation [in Spanish] (114 kb PDF)
  
  
• Presentation addressing Madagascar’s Government Officials from the Anti-Corruption Commission, Organizations from the Civil Society and international donors in Madagascar
  Washington D.C. - October 2005
  PowerPoint presentation [in French] (136 kb PDF)
  
  
• International Workshop: "Strategies to fight corruption and to promote transparency from the Public Sector"
  Guatemala City, Guatemala - June 6- 8, 2005
  The purpose of this workshop is twofold, on one hand sharing results of the Governance and Anti-Corruption Diagnostic carried out in Guatemala, and on the other hand, learning from the experiences in organizing anticorruption efforts of the Mexican and Colombian governments.
  Presentation on main results of the Governance and Anti-Corruption Diagnostic carried out in Guatemala (3.9 mb PDF)
  
  
• Presentation addressing China's top Anti-Corruption officials
  Washington D.C. - 21 December 2004
  Download Presentation in English and Chinese combined (1.55 mb) "A-C, Governance and Transparency- Experiences and Illustrations from around the World"
  
  
• Presentation addressing Paraguay’s Government Officials (Technical committee from the Anti-Corruption Commission (CISNI) and statistical agency (DGEEC))
  Washington D.C. - 14 September 2004
  PowerPoint presentation[in Spanish] (5.6 mb PDF)
  
  

• Conferencia sobre la Transparencia - Guatemala City, 8 de mayo del 2003

• Sample Presentation to a Government Delegation (including the Ministry of Finance and President of the Central Bank), January 2003
  Download Presentation [in Spanish] (1.11 Mb PDF)

• PREM/WBI Anti-Corruption Core Course December 2002
  Download Module for World Bank Staff: Tools to Assess Governance (2.7 Mb PDF)

• Russian Government Officials' Study Tour in the United States, October 2002
  Download Sample Lecture: Governance and Anti-Corruption Tools (328 kb PDF)

• Guinea Steering Committee, 2 July 2002
  Download Module: Methodological Approach to Designing an Anti-Corruption Plan [in French] (944 kb PDF)

• Local GAP (Gobierno Abierto y Participativo) Course, October 2002
  Download Module [in Spanish] (279 kb PDF)
  Download Module 2 [in Spanish] (5.3 Mb PDF)

• WBI LAC Core Course on Governance and Anti-Corruption, 12 July 2001
  Download Module: Empirical Tools to Assess Governance (113 kb PDF)

• Study Tour of Nigeria, 13 August 2001
  Download Module: Empirical Tools and Governance (1.2 Mb PDF)

• First Consultative Meeting of Profiles in Democracy and Governance, launched by the Carter Center
  Download Presentation: Measuring Governance (112 kb PDF)