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RECENT EVENTS | |||
| Event | Date | Materials | Description |
| Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions: A Conversation with Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and Caribbean | 2022 May 3 | This session discussed the challenges and opportunities, push points and commonalities for building effective, inclusive, and accountable institutions in Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean region. | |
| Can Opening Up Government Accelerate Gender Equality? | 2022 March 21 | RECORDING | The session explored the complex relationship between gender equality and the core tenets of open government. |
| Boosting Public Financial Management Knowledge in Europe and Central Asia through PEMPAL | 2021 December 13 | This knowledge learning session is part of a series on PEMPAL to help PFM practioners leverage the PEMPAL Network to strengthen PFM in the ECA region. | |
| Catalyzing Public Administration Reform through Surveys - Lessons from Romania and Uruguay | 2021 December 8 | This knowledge learning session presented the findings from HRM surveys from Romania and Uruguay. | |
| Measuring Corruption, Advancing Integrity and Using Evidence for Policy Engagement | 2021 November 18 | The speakers discussed how policy engagement and research have shaped the focus and methodology for the integrity indicators, and how the indicators are in turn being used for policy discussions and engagement in country by the EU and others. | |
| Azerbaijan: e-Courts and the Digitization of Justice | 2021 June 29 | This session presented the findings of the Azerbaijan: e-Courts case study featured in the publication Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions in Europe and Central Asia: Lessons from the Region. | |
| Data, Digitalization and Governance – Key Tools for a Resilient Recovery in ECA | 2021 May 25 | During this session, the Chief Economist for the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region discussed the chapter on Data, Digitalization and Governance, including policy recommendations, grounded in empirical evidence for harnessing the data revolution to improve governance across ECA. | |
| Sealing the Tax Gap: Improving Tax Compliance in Poland | 2021 May 10 | During this session, the speakers presented how estimates of tax gaps in Poland, especially in VAT, helped to diagnose the compliance issues, what measures including both changes in the tax policy and tax administration have been introduced and applied to reduce the gaps, and what remains to be done to sustain and further close the gaps. | |
| Reestablishing Trust in Government in ECA and Beyond: Citizens Assemblies & CivicTech | 2021 May 5 |
| During this Master Class, George Zarkadakis discussed how citizen assemblies can be an effective citizen engagement tool for regaining public trust, enhancing liberal democracy, and bridging the gap between experts and non-experts. |
| THINK EQUAL: How Gender Responsive Budgeting in Albania is Advancing Equality | 2021 April 28 | During this session, the speakers discussed how Albania has been successfully using gender-responsive budgeting as a basis for policy formulation and presented the findings of the Albania Results Story featured in the publication Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions in Europe and Central Asia: Lessons from the Region. | |
| Beyond the Technical Drivers of Justice Reform: Lessons from Moldova | 2021 April 21 |
| During this interactive session, the speakers shared their experience working in a rapidly changing environment, the need to stay focused yet flexible and adjust approaches to the reality on the ground while remaining engaged. |
| Two for One: How Leveraging Small Claims Procedures Can Improve Both Judicial Efficiency and Access to Justice | 2021 March 24 | During this session, the speakers presented the Two for One: How Leveraging Small Claims Procedures Can Improve Both Judicial Efficiency and Access to Justice Note and the panel discussed how to operationalize the key findings and recommendations | |
| Making Ownership of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Successful: The Case of Lithuania | 2021 March 2 | This session presented the findings of the Lithuania SOE Case Study featured in the publication Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions in Europe and Central Asia: Lessons from the Region. | |
| Mobile Broadband Internet and Confidence in Government | 2021 January 20 | RECORDING | During this session speakers discussed how mobile broadband internet affects the approval of governments, particularly in the ECA region. |
| Public Procurement Reforms in ECA: Are They Working? Lessons from Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine | 2020 December 10 | During this session, speakers provided an overview of the public procurement reforms in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. | |
| Financial Management Use of Technology | 2020 December 2 | During this session speakers discussed developments in technology and how they can be applied to financial management work. | |
| Improving Public Sector Performance: Performance Management and Performance Pay | 2020 November 20 | Speakers presented lessons learnt from an in-depth analysis of the staff performance management system in the Romanian public administration interaction of diversity and variation in performance-based bonuses in formal work groups. | |
| Machines and the Future of Public Service: AI for Public Sector Performance and Service Delivery | 2020 October 28 | RECORDING | Speakers discussed how AI can prevent fraud in revenue management and how AI and machine learning is used in the delivery of public services. |
| EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED: Using Scenario Planning for Reopening Schools in Romania | 2020 October 22 | Speakers reflected on the experience of using scenario planning to help the Romanian Government get better prepared for reopening and operating schools in the COVID-19 context. | |
| Capable States and Trustworthy Leaders: Supporting Institutions and Collective Action for Economic Recovery | 2020 October 1 | RECORDING | This discussion with Francis Fukuyama explored how the COVID crisis coincides with the impacts of climate change putting additional stresses on states and societies and how communities can support constructive collective action – locally, nationally, and internationally. |
| What to Expect from the Post-COVID State? | 2020 September 23 | This talk presented a framework for thinking about the social, economic, and political consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and argued for building a new and more expansive welfare state, undergirded not by a more powerful state but more active societal participation in politics. | |
| Legitimacy and Trust in Public Institutions in the time of COVID-19: Implications for ECA | 2020 September 14 | The session reflected on the implications of the recent publication titled An Opportunity to Build Legitimacy and Trust in Public Institutions in the Time of COVID-19 on the ECA region. | |
| Troubling Trends: Insights from a Decade of Tracking Institutional Transformation in ECA | 2020 July 9 | The BTI team discussed the main findings and trends over time for the ECA region, identified potential challenges or reform drivers in individual countries and sub-regional groups, and presented the various ways to access BTI data and analyses. | |
| Book: “Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions in ECA” | 2020 July 9 | RECORDING | This session presented key takeaways from the 'Building Effective, Accountable and Inclusive Institutions in ECA' book specifically looking at how institutions play a key role in building economies and delivering quality public services to people across all countries in ECA. |
| Improving Budget Transparency: Can Europe and Central Asia Keep Up? | 2020 May 12 | Speakers from the International Budget Partnership presented an overview of the methodology used by the Open Budget Initiative and provided an aggregate assessment of the performance of countries in Europe and Central Asia in three areas; transparency, public participation and budgetary oversight. | |
| Managing the Public Sector Wage Bill During COVID-19: A Panel Discussion | 2020 May 8 | This session discussed what the appropriate short and medium term policies should be to manage the difficult tradeoffs of the public sector wage bill in the short and medium term in the context of COVID-19. | |
| Democratic Governance in ECA - One Step Forward Two Steps Back? | 2020 March 4 | The authors of the Global State of Democracy 2019: Addressing the Ills, Reviving the Promise report discussed the main findings for Europe. | |
LGBTI Exclusion in Serbia: Measuring its Socioeconomic Dimensions - Data Matters |
2020 February 25 |
| This session discussed key findings from the report A Comparative Analysis of the Socioeconomic Dimensions of LGBTI Exclusion in Serbia which is based on an adaptation of the EU’s Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) instrument. |
| Justice Surveys: Why to do them and how to do them | 2020 February 11 | This session provided technical guidance on how to do justice surveys, specifically how to decide on the specific survey, how to design it, how to implement it, and how to utilize the data in the reform process. | |
| Fiscal Decentralization, Local Government & Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe | 2020 January 28 |
| The authors of Fiscal Decentralization, Local Government and Policy Reversals in South Eastern Europe book discussed the various decentralization approaches that have been adopted. |
PAST EVENTS | |||
| Event | Date | Materials | Description |
| SOE Employment Practices, Labor Markets, and Firm Performance: The Case of Russia | 2019 November 26 | The authors presented the findings of the State-Owned Enterprises in the Russian Federation: Employment Practices, Labor Markets, and Firm Performance report. | |
| Building Trust in the Tax System: A New Approach | 2019 November 25 | The Global Tax Team presented the findings of the Innovations in Tax Compliance: Conceptual Framework including the operational tools and discussed how they can be leveraged to contribute to better informed tax reforms. | |
| Bulgaria's Shared Services Journey: Changing the Mindset of the Public Administration | 2019 October 3 | During this session, a World Bank team and representatives from the Government of Bulgaria presented the shared services approach and model applied in Bulgaria. | |
| Multisectoral P4Rs: Accelerating Service Delivery — Lessons for ECA | 2019 March 14 | During this session, World Bank staff working in the ECA region shared experiences on how to leverage PforR operations to improve service delivery. | |
| Determinants of Trust in Institutions in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Europe | 2018 November 19 | PRESENTATION | Dr. Christos Kallandranis, Senior Lecturer in Finance Regent’s University London, shared the results of a study that uses micro-level data from the Eurobarometer to explore the determinants of trust across countries in Europe. |
| Citizen-Centric Local Governance Scorecard Initiative in Turkey | 2018 October 22 | PRESENTATION | The speaker from the Argüden Governance Academy presented the methodology developed and the results obtained for an "open-government' lens exercise in Turkey. |
| Mystery Shopper Experiments: A Powerful Tool to Measure LGBTI Exclusion | 2018 May 7 | The lead author of the Mystery Shopper report shared the results of the experiments and the development implications for LGBTI people. | |
| Budget Transparency in Europe and Central Asia: Has the Train Stopped? | 2018 May 2 | Speakers from the International Budget Partnership provided an assessment of the performance of countries in ECA in three areas; transparency, public participation and budgetary oversight. | |