Capacity-building workshop at N. Dua

Capacity-building workshop at N. Dua

The World Bank plans to hold a workshop on sustainable approaches to local government capacity building at Hotel Inna Putri Bali, Nusa Dua, from June 19 through June 21.

The workshop, aimed at providing knowledge for local governments in the decentralization era, will present a number of prominent speakers.

Vice President of the World Bank Institute Dr Frannie Leautier will present a keynote speaker. He will be followed by several others including Prof. Dr. Bambang D. Soedjito from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Director General for Urban and Rural Development at the Ministry of Public Works Agoes Widjarnako and Deputy Executive Director and World Bank LOGOFIND Project director at the Philippines Department of Finance Lilanie Magdamo.

The three will discuss the challenge of decentralization and governance reforms and various other contentious issues regarding local governance capacity building.

To share its discussions with other countries, the workshop is also inviting three mayors from the Philippines and American academic Professor Robert Cervero from the University of California at Berkeley. -- JP