Past and Forthcoming Events of the Good Governance for Development in Arab Countries Initiative

 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2003-2006

November 2009

• MENA Ministerial Meeting: Beyond the crisis: Citizens and Business at the Centre of Policy Responses. Marrakech, Morocco, 23 November 2009.
• Governance Forum: Making Governments Effective in Delivering Sound Economic Growth. Marrakech, Morocco, 22 November 2009.
• High level delegation to the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity and Conference of State Parties. Doha, Qatar, 6-7 November 2009.
• 2nd Meeting of the MENA Senior Budget Officials Network on  “Budget offices’ adjustments to an international crisis”. Doha, Qatar, 4-5 November 2009.
• Fifth Special Session of the OECD Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform. Paris, France, 4 November 2009.
• Training on Tools to Measure Administrative Burdens: an Introduction to the Standard Cost Model.  Paris, France, 3 November 2009.

October 2009

• Regional Conference on Public Sector Integrity, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-27 October 2009.
• MENA Steering Group Meeting. Cairo, Egypt, 11 October 2009.
• Workshop on Addressing Gender in Public Management. Paris, France, 2 October 2009.
• Participation of Arab countries in the Meeting of the Public Employment Working Party on Strategies for building a representative public workforce. Paris, France, 1 October 2009.

July 2009

• Conference on the governance of water: Sharing experiences between OECD and Arab countries. Tunis, Tunisia, 8-9 July 2009.

June 2009

• 5th Regional Working Group Meeting on E-government and Administrative Simplification. Manama, Bahrain, 25 June 2009.
• High Level Regional Seminar on Improving E-Services Take Up: Challenges, Solutions and Good Practices on E-government. Manama, Bahrain, 24 June 2009.
• 5th Regional Working Group Meeting on Civil Service and Integrity, back-to-back with the Technical Seminar. Rabat, Morocco, 17 June 2009.
• Technical seminar on measuring and planning workforce. Rabat, Morocco, 16 June 2009.
• Participation of Arab countries in the Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Cities. Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 11-12 June 2009.

May 2009

• Capacity-building seminar on “Institutions Promoting Expertise on Regulatory Management”   (WG on Public Service Delivery, Public Private Partnerships and Regulatory Reform). Tunis, Tunisia, 20 May 2009.
• 5th Regional Working Group Meeting on Public Service Delivery, Public Private Partnerships and Regulatory Reform. Tunis, Tunisia, 20 May 2009.
• Addressing gender in public management. Cairo, Egypt, 18 May 2009.
• First Special MENA Session on Integrity back to back with the OECD Forum on Public Governance: Building a cleaner world: tools and good practices for fostering a culture of integrity. Paris, France, 5 May 2009.

April 2009

• Study visit of Canada's regulatory system. Ottawa, Canada, 28-30 April 2009.

March 2009

• Review of the Existing Legislation. Cairo, Egypt, 11-12 March 2009. 
• High level meeting on Moving forward with the Governance Reform Agenda. Cairo, Egypt, 5 March 2009.

November 2008

• First MENA Senior Budget Officials Meeting. Cairo, Egypt, 24-25 November 2008.
• Joint Learning Activity on Electronic Identity Card in Belgium. Brussels, Belgium, 21 November 2008.
• Participation of Arab countries in the OECD Network of Senior E-Government Officials Expert Seminar on the Business Case for Digital Identity Management. Paris, France, 19-20 November 2008.

October 2008

• Fourth Special Session of the OECD Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform. Paris, France, 20 October 2008.

July 2008

• High-Level Meeting on Economic and Governance Policy Reforms in the Republic of Iraq. Paris, France, 8-10 July 2008.
• Steering Group Meeting at Technical Level. Paris, France, 4 July 2008.

June 2008

• Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Administrative Simplification: Overcoming Barriers to Implementation. Cairo, Egypt, 18-19 June 2008 

May 2008

• Symposium on the Fundamentals of Implementing a Government Financial Management Law. Cairo, Egypt, 28-29 May 2008 
• Sixth High Level Seminar on Partnerships and Frameworks for E-government Collaboration. Tunis, Tunisia, 28 May 2008  
• Fourth Regional Meeting of the Working Group on E-government and Administrative Simplification. Tunis, Tunisia, 29 May 2008 
• Bahrain Peer Learning Study Visit "Modernising the Civil Service Bureau: Human Resource Management (HRM) and Regulation inside Government". Paris, France, 26-27 May 2008.
• Symposium on Public-Private Partnerships. Rabat, Morocco, 20-21 May 2008 
• Fourth Regional Meeting of the Working Group on the Governance of Public Finance. Rabat, Morocco, 20-21 May 2008 

April 2008

• Jordan Regional Capacity Building Seminar on "Drafting Legislation and Oversight Bodies for Regulatory Quality". Amman, Jordan, 29-30 2008
• Fourth Regional Working Group Meeting on Public Service Delivery, PPP’s & Regulatory Reform. Amman, Jordan, 29 April 2008 
• Capacity Building Workshop on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). Amman, Jordan, 28 April 2008 
• Fourth Regional Meeting of the Working Group on Civil Service and Integrity. Rabat, Morocco, 4 April 2008  
• Regional Conference and Capacity Building Seminar on Integrity in Public Procurement as follow up of the first Joint Learning Study on Integrity in Public Procurement in Morocco. Rabat, Morocco, 3-4 April 2008 

March 2008

• Workshop on "Administrative Burden Reduction: Experiences, Practices and Use of ICT tools”. The Hague, the Netherlands, 5 March 2008
• First OECD eLeader Conference with the participation of invited Arab countries ( GfD WG on E- Government and Administrative simplification), The Hague, the Netherlands, 6 March 2008

February 2008

• Participation of Arab countries in the Senior Budget Officials Symposium on Public Private Partnerships. Zürich, Switzerland, 22-23 February 2008 
• Regional Capacity Building Seminar "Comparative Approaches in the Field of Civil Service Modernisation in OECD Countries". Tunis, Tunisia, 14-15 February 2008 
  

November 2007

• Third Steering Group Meeting at Ministerial Level. Cairo, Egypt, 29 November 2007
• Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Regulatory Impact Analysis. Turkey, 20 November 2007

October 2007

• Meeting back-to-back with Senior Budget Officials Meeting: Evaluating Innovative Approaches to Public Service Delivery. Madrid, Spain, 30-31 October 2007
• Intergovernmental Working Session to present and discuss the UNCAC self-assessment tool, in partnership with UNODC, and prepare for upcoming regional conferences on UNCAC implementation in the Arab region. Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, 23 October 2007
• Field mission in preparation of the First Joint Learning Study (JLS) on Integrity in Public Procurement in Morocco (GfD Working Group on Civil Service and Integrity).

September 2007

• Steering Group Meeting at Technical Level. Cairo, Egypt, 10 September 2007
• First Special Regional Meeting of the OECD E-Government Leaders in the framework of the GfD Initiative. Paris, France, 6 September 2007

June 2007

• Fifth High Level Seminar on Strategies, Tools and Capacities for Administrative Simplification. Cairo, Egypt, 20-21 June 2007

May 2007

• Meeting back-to-back with the 28th Annual Meeting of Senior Budget Officials. Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May-1 June 2007
• Third Regional Meeting of the Working Group on Governance of Public Finance. Istanbul, Turkey, 30 May 2007
• Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Managing the Performance and Enhancing the Integrity of Civil Servants. Rabat, Morocco, 24-25 May 2007
• Third Regional Special Session of the OECD Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform in the framework of the GfD Initiative. Paris, France, 4 May 2007

April 2007

• Third National GfD Co-ordinators Meeting. Paris, France, 27 April 2007

March 2007

• Third Regional Meeting of the Working Group on E-government and Administrative Simplification. Dubai, UAE, 13 March 2007
• Fourth High Level Seminar on Measuring and Evaluating E-government. Dubai, UAE, 12 March 2007 
• OECD Stakeholder Meeting of the Good Governance for Development in Arab Countries Initiative. Brussels, Belgium, 5 March 2007

February 2007

• Third Regional Meeting of Working Group IV on Public Service Delivery, Public-Private Partnerships and Regulatory Reform. Tunis, Tunisia, 16 February 2006

• Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Regulatory Tools and Policies. Tunis, Tunisia, 15 February 2007

• OECD MENA Paris Delegation Stakeholder Meeting. Paris, France, 19 December 2006
• Third High-Level Seminar on Personalised Service Portals and Special Session on Experiences on E-government. Paris, France, 11-12 December 2006
• Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Overall Human Resources Planning and Management back-to-back with the Third Regional Meeting of Working Group I on Civil Service and Integrity. Paris, France, 6-7 December 2006
• Regional Capacity-Building Seminar for Regulatory Quality: Good Practices in Multilingual Legal Drafting and the Training of Jurilinguists.Tunis, Tunisia, 27 November 2006
• Peer-to-Peer Study Visit of Senior HR Officials from Arab Countries to Belgium. Exchange on the Belgian Experience with Reforming the Federal Job Classification System. Brussels, Belgium, 20-24 November 2006
• Regional Capacity Building Seminar, Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Financing in the MENA region. (Joint event of the OECD-MENA Governance and Investment Programmes). Istanbul, Turkey, 8 November 2006
• Peer-to-Peer Study Visit of Senior Tunisian Officials to Switzerland on best Practices in Multilingual Legal Drafting and the Training of Jurilinguists. Bern & Geneva, Switzerland, 5-7 November 2006
• Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Pay Strategies for Better Public Sector Performance: Pay and Grading Reforms in Arab Countries. Amman, Jordan, 20-21 September 2006
• Donors meeting. Facilitate Donor Support for Regional Training Centre for Public Finance and Financial Management. Paris, France, 11 September 2006
• Meeting of the subgroup of the Donor Assistance Group (DAG) for Governance and Human Rights. Presentation of the GfD Egypt National Action Plan. Cairo, Egypt, 21 June 2006
• Second GfD Steering Group Meeting at Ministerial Level. Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 19-20 May 2006
• Second Regional Meeting of Working Group V on the Role of the Judiciary and Enforcement. Amman, Jordan, 15-16 May 2006
• Second Regional Meeting of Working Group IV on Public Service Delivery, PPPs and Regulatory Reform. Tunis, Tunisia, 8-9 May 2006
• Second Regional Meeting of Working Group III on Governance of Public Finance. Cairo, Egypt, 7-8 May 2006
• Second Regional Meeting of Working Group VI on Civil Society and the Media. Beirut, Lebanon, 27-28 April 2006
• Second Special Session of the OECD Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform in the Framework of the GfD Initiative. Paris, France, 25 April 2006
• Second Regional Meeting of Working Group I on Civil Service and Integrity. Rabat, Morocco, 19-20 April 2006
• Second High-Level Seminar on Building an effective E-Government Action Plan. Dubai, UAE, 7 March 2006
• Second Regional Meeting of Working Group II on E-Government and Administrative SImplification. Dubai, UAE, 6 March 2006
• First GfD Coordinators’ Meeting. Paris, France, 1 March 2006
• January-April: Country Stocktaking and Action Plan Development Missions to Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE.
• First High Level Seminar on E-Procurement. Naples, Italy, 30-31 January 2006
• Technical co-ordination meeting for Assessment Case Studies on Civil Service and Integrity (Working Group I on Civil Service and Integrity). Rabat, Morocco, 8-9 December 2005
• Capacity Building Seminar on Regulatory Reform. Tunis, Tunisia, 24-25 November 2005
• First Meeting of Working Group III on Governance of Public Finance. Cairo, Egypt, 1-3 October 2005
• First Meeting of Working Group VI on Civil Society and Media. Beirut, Lebanon, 29-30 September 2005
• First Meeting of Working Group V on the Role of the Judiciary and Enforcement. Amman, Jordan, 28-29 September 2005
• Special Session of the OECD Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform in the framework of the Governance for Development in Arab Countries Initiative. Paris, France, 28 September 2005
• First Meeting of Working Group II on E-government and Administrative Simplification. Dubai, UAE, 12-13 September 2005
• First Meeting of Working Group I on Civil Service and Integrity. Rabat, Morocco, 18-19 July 2005
• First Meeting of Working Group IV on Public Service Delivery, Public-Private Partnerships and Regulatory Reform. Tunis, Tunisia, 28-29 June 2005
• First GfD Steering Group Meeting. Madrid, Spain, 27-28 April 2005
• Ministerial Launching Conference for the Governance for Development in Arab Countries Initiative (GfD). Dead Sea, Jordan, 6-7 February 2005
• First Ministerial Meeting: Commitment to actively engage in a process of regional policy dialogue and agreement to meet again for an official launching conference in February 2005. Amman, Jordan, 26 September 2004
• Third exploratory meeting for the GfD Initiative, hosted by Morocco: Formulation of detailed terms of reference for the GfD Initiative. Morocco,29-30 April 2004
• Second exploratory meeting for the Governance for Development in Arab Countries Initiative (GfD), hosted by Turkey. Istanbul, Turkey, 10-11 February 2004
• First exploratory meeting for the Governance for Development in Arab Countries Initiative (GfD), chaired by the Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Reform. Beirut, Lebanon, 23-24 October 2003