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Good Governance through Public-Private Dialogue
Start Date: January 17, 2012Location: United States
Public Private Dialogues

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
12:30 to 2:00 PM EST (Get your time here)
World Bank’s MC 13-121
(Main Complex, 13th Floor, Room 121)

Speakers:

Benjamin Herzberg, Program Lead, Private Sector Engagement for Good Governance (PSGG) – World Bank Institute

Jean Rogers, Deputy Director, Center for International Private Enterprise

Moderator: Robert R. Hunja, Cluster Leader, Open Governance, WBI

Discussant: Sammar Essmat, Operations Officer, Investment Climate Advisory Services in the Middle East and North Africa.

Public-Private Dialogue (PPD) is a means to ensure more inclusive and sustainable policy reforms through a structured and participatory reform process. It has become widely recognized as a fundamental component of economic development and a driver of good governance. By providing a more transparent policy-making process and engaging a wider range of public and private stakeholders, PPDs generate political will and create a process to carry forward reform or sector programs from diagnosis and prioritization to the implementation stage.

Drawing upon several years of successful PPD implementation support on the ground, the World Bank Group recently published Public-Private Dialogue for Sector Competitiveness and Local Economic Development, a study based on 20 sector-level PPD case studies in MENA to complement the implementation guidelines of the PPD Handbook.  The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), building on its own extensive expertise in promoting civil society and entrepreneurship in developing countries, has compiled a new Reform Toolkit, Making the Most of Public-Private Dialogue.

On January 17, Benjamin Herzberg, Program Lead, World Bank Institute’s Private Sector Engagement for Good Governance (PSGG) program and former PPD Global Product Leader for the IFC, and Jean Rogers, Deputy Director of CIPE, will discuss the renewed attention to PPDs in promoting open governance and their role in promoting civil society engagement. The audience will gain insights in current PPD best practices, designs and risks.

 

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