Tools for cooperation

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Joint Learning InitiativesTools for implementing
reforms
Christian Vergez Head of Division Public
Governance and Territorial Development
Directorate OECD
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New tools for cooperation

• To respond to Arab country demand for increased
  cooperation
• To build on existing competencies and skills in
  Arab and OECD countries

JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVES
JOINT LEARNING STUDIES
JOINT LEARNING ACTIVITIES
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What are the Joint Learning Initiatives?
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVES
JOINT LEARNING ACTIVITIES
JOINT LEARNING STUDIES
Capacity building and technical knowledge WHAT Review and advice emerging from a process of mutual learning
Specific topics related to identified GfD thematic priorities (e.g. ID-cards managing conflict of interest, measuring red tape, performance-related pay schemes) FOCUS Specific area (electronic driving license, law drafting, articles of UNCAC) or whole system (e-gov, integrity framework, regulatory reform)
Technical seminars animated by government experts FORM country study using a methodology adapted from the OECD
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Pilot Joint Learning Study Integrity in Public
Procurement in Morocco

• Quality
• Review methodology and analytical framework that
  build on OECD work on integrity in public
  procurement.
• Independence
• Assessment and proposals for action are provided
  to Morocco by peers, government officials with
  practical experience in public procurement, with
  the support of the OECD Secretariat.
• A balanced approach
• Perspectives from Arab and OECD countries with
  different systems are taken into account to
  provide a range of options for reform for the
  country being reviewed Canada, Dubai/UAE and
  France.
• Joint Learning for country and peer reviewers
• The reviewed country shares with other countries
  its experience and good practices . Countries
  participating in the review learn from the review
  countrys practices and approaches.

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Examples of proposed Joint Learning Studies for
2008-2009
E-government and administrative simplification Lebanon
Electronic Driving License Morocco
Integrity in Public procurement (Article 9 of the UNCAC) Yemen, Palestinian National Authority
Implementation of codes of conduct (Article 8 of the UNCAC) Jordan, Mauritania
Preventive Anti-Corruption Bodies (Article 6 of the UNCAC) Egypt, Morocco
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Questions for discussion

• How Joint Learning Studies could be beneficial to
  support the implementation of reform in your
  country context?
• How would you improve the Joint Learning Study
  methodology to take into account Arab countrys
  administrative development context?
• What specific Joint Learning Initiative
  (including Joint Learning Activity and Joint
  Learning Study) your country would be interested
  in requesting and/or participating in?