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The Socio-Economic Governance and Management Branch (SGMB) of the United Nations’ Department of Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM/DESA) organized an international workshop on “Engaging Citizens in Development Management and Public Governance for the Achievement of the M

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Though Halliburton made history recently when Halliburton and its former subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) agreed to the largest corruption settlement ever paid by a U.S. company under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)—$579 million—their historic guilty plea is only the latest in a string of high-level bribery cases involving payments from multinationals to secure contracts in Nigeria and elsewhere around the globe.1

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“Results-based monitoring is still assessed to be the weakest link in the overall national governance systems of many countries”. To address this challenge, the OECD/DAC Cluster E has sponsored a coordinated effort to develop a framework for self-assessment—Managing for Development Results Capacity Scan (MfDR CAP Scan)—that is based on

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From June 30 to July 1, 2010, the Senegalese Community of Practice (SENCOP) on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) and Senegal’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in partnership with the AfBD, World Bank, UNDP and GTZ, held a results validation workshop in regard to the MfDR CAP-Scan of Senegal’s public administration. The 5

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Not only results are of utmost importance for development in Africa, but it’s also the case for most development organizations. To ensure a good and coherent work on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) all over the world, Multilateral Development Banks, Civil Society Organizations and partner countries are part of a same working group, t

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