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Executive Programs
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- Sustainable Development
The Global Dialogues on Sustainable Development (GDSD) features a series of seminars and panel
discussions on issues related to the Johannesburg 2002 Summit. The GDSD seeks to involve
a worldwide, broad-based audience with an interest and stake in the Summit. The GDSD events
were held at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC and connected via videoconference
to selected sites around the world for real-time interaction with experts from developing
countries
- Frontiers in Infrastructure Finance
Training focuses on key learning areas, capacity building, and knowledge of financing new
private infrastructure projects, as well as the privatization of existing public utilities
in the power and transport sectors. This course provides a forum for sharing knowledge and
expertise on such fronts. The course's specific objectives include giving participants
an awareness of how infrastructure projects are procured, negotiated, and managed; the
best practices and partnerships in concession rights awards, contract design, and
negotiation; and an examination of the links between sectoral reforms, technological
characteristics and regulatory frameworks
The topics covered in these sessions are Global Perspectives and Issues; InterGen/Enka
Transaction: An International Lender's Perspective; Introduction to Ras Gas Case Study;
Fundamentals of Project Finance; Regulating Infrastructure Concessions; Financing through
Global Capital Markets, Using World Bank Group Instruments; Structuring Credit Enhancements
for Infrastructure Projects (ECA, PRI); Designing Contractual Frameworks for Infrastructure
Projects, and others.
- Transparency in Infrastructure Concessions
Course participants examined the contribution of transparency and good governance to the
creation of a sound investment climate as a prerequisite for successful private participation
in infrastructure. Working together, participants and the training team shared knowledge in the
fields of transparency and infrastructure concessions on building institutional capacity and
discussed how to achieve growth while minimizing the impact on the poorest segments of society.
The participants also discussed the procurement procedures for large scale infrastructure
projects and ways to improve the process through competitive bidding, transparency of
documentation, project analysis, and compliance with international norms and standards.
Participants worked together to present their local country experiences and engaged the
training team on issues of particular local relevance
The five-week program consisted of ten live videoconference sessions. Following the sessions,
participants had an opportunity to interact with the resource team through the Internet.
- Executive Leadership Seminar
The Executive Leadership Seminar is a four-hour program designed to introduce senior government
officials to the logic and rationale of a results-based approach to public sector management.
Best practices and lessons from both developed and developing countries are used to emphasize
key points. The seminar used presentation, discussion, question and answer, and small group
methodologies, as well as self-assessment tools and a ten-step process for moving towards the
design and construction of a results-based system.
- Anti-Corruption
The International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management and the Americas' Accountability
Anti-Corruption Project together with the World Bank and other partners were part of the
International Anti-Corruption Summit 2000. This was a worldwide summit with a significant and
influential gathering of leaders in the field from around the globe for the debate of
anti-corruption efforts. The conference attracted over 2000 government officials, executive
and civil and professional leaders from throughout the world
The conference covered topics related to USAID's concerns about corruption's effect on
development; money laundering, the international financial system, and the fight against
corruption; hemispheric action against corruption; and unbundling corruption: new empiric
on 'state capture', bribery and kickbacks and their implications for governance reforms, among
others.
- Telemedicine Primer
The workshop was held between Egypt and the Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically
Under-Served Areas (CERMUSA) in the US. The workshop was designed to discuss clinical applications
of telemedicine technology and to identify the various levels of technology for telecommunication.
Participants discussed topics related to applications for bandwidth technology, including
rehabilitation, dermatology, ENT, ophthalmology, orthopedics, emergency medicine,
psychiatry/mental health, and continuing education
- Reproductive Health
Interactive Health, a London based non-profit organization, and the World Bank Institute are
working to bring this series using online technologies to address health inequities.
The focus of this series is on the role of evidence-based medicine in reproductive health in developing
countries. An expert panel will participate from the distance learning facilities at the World Bank
in Washington, D.C. The topics covered in this session will be the importance of evidence based
medicine in developing countries; the challenges of evidence based research and clinical practice in
reproductive health in developing countries; the challenges facing health workers in developing
countries; and an overview of worldwide efforts for evidence based solutions for reproductive health
in developing countries, among many other topics.
- ABCDE Conference
The 3rd Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) Europe 2001 took place online in a live
video format. The ABCDE conference was designed to expand the flow of ideas between development thinkers
and policy makers. The original Washington-based conference and the ABCDE Europe were organized as major
events in the development field, where many of the world's finest thinkers in development presented new
ideas and perspectives. Egypt participated in the conference online through RITSEC's GDLC website.
- MENA Development Debates
The goal of the development debates workshop was to raise the participants' awareness of the gravity of
the region's poverty situation and to initiate a process of learning from others' experiences in how to
redirect social and economic policy to the poorer segments of society. The workshop initiated
a structured series of debates on some of the key issues and then disseminated the results of the
debate. The first series were held online in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco.
- The World Youth Forum
The 4th session of the World Youth Forum was held on June 26, 2001, with Egypt, Senegal, and the UK. In
its mandate, the World Youth Forum is designed to open up an effective channel of communication between
non-governmental youth organizations and the United Nations system, seen as essential for dialog and
consultation on the situation of the world's youth.
- E-Government
The e-government workshop was designed to present and discuss conference papers and studies distantly for
the conference held in Qatar and to allow for Egyptian participants and speakers to participate distantly
from Cairo. Four studies were presented from RITSEC's GDLC covering legal matters in e-government,
IT applications for e-government, and solutions from Microsoft
- E-Commerce
The e-commerce workshops served to introduce participants to e-commerce and to enable participants to
understand e-commerce strategies. The topics covered in these sessions included e-commerce strategy;
characteristics of successful strategies; globalization and international strategies; intellectual
property (IP) law, copyright and other legal issues; trademark, patents, trade secrets and online privacy;
and many other issues.
- Strategic Approach to E-Learning
TTSAsia.com and the Institute of Public Administration and Management organized an exciting forum as part
of the Singapore Learning Festival. Designed to bring together experts from renowned organizations to
share their knowledge and experience, the forum discussed e-learning experiences at IDA in Singapore and
INSEAD in France and in the financial services sector and allowed participants the opportunity to network
with other e-learning professionals.
- Building a Virtual Library
"Building a virtual library" is a collaborative exercise to build an electronic library in which globally
dispersed groups create a framework model for a "library on the desktop. Discussions will explore the
definition of "electronic library," and a framework based on the resulting definition will then be created
jointly and populated with resources or resource types. Each participant will create a model framework
specific for the local needs and begin the process of populating the framework. At the completion, each
participant will be able to define what a virtual library is and be able to structure and populate one.
- The Digital Divide
The project aims at sharing the children's work between Egypt and their counterparts all over the world.
The project demonstrates how IT has prepared children to one day play a leading role in the global
economy. Moreover, the project illustrates the opportunitiesvwhich have been created for the children to
express their own thoughts and ideas. The RITSEC presentation focuses on maximizing the number of
children users, reducing the digital divide and helping Egypt's growing Internet community.
- Data Warehousing and Data Dissemination
The Data Warehousing and Data Dissemination course explores how those interested in warehousing
information and disseminating data to a wide audience can choose among possible strategies and select
the appropriate ones using a set of principles and guidelines. Participants learn how to determine when
data warehousing is appropriate and how to select the best media for dissemination of their data, based
on the target audience for maximum impact. Where possible, participants see a demonstration of the World
Development Indicators (WDI) CD-ROM and the World Bank's web-based WDI external data query system as
examples of appropriate media.
- Knowledge Learning and Sustainable Development
The first public session of the conference "Global Focus," organized by the World Bank, is designed to
provide an opportunity for focused debate among a group of prominent international figures who have
particular insight into and experience with the challenge of building learning societies and harnessing
the key issues and priorities at a global level in addressing this challenge, while at the same time
bringing to light the concerns, needs and distinctive experiences of the poor and disadvantaged. The
online session was held with Egypt, Germany, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Uganda, and the World Bank
offices in Washington and Paris.
- Knowledge for Development Framework (K4D)
The K4D workshop was held online with Egypt, China, and Washington to discuss increasing reliance on
knowledge, technology, and information in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The workshop
discussed the action required in different sectors of society, including the regulatory and institutional
framework, education and skills, ICT, and innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Management Simulation
The management challenge simulation was designed as an introduction to management for non-specialists and
new managers with a particular emphasis on sales force management, financial concepts, and cost accounting.
It is intended to help participants understand the inter-relationships between the different functional
areas in an organization as well as enhance their knowledge of how to operate in these areas.
Learning objectives include understanding the basic financial management techniques, the importance of cost
control and unit marginal costing principles, the impact of different forms of cost allocation on the
performance of profit centers, and the importance of the marketing mix concept.
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