Millennium-IP3 Partners

Without effective public administration and organized citizen demand for change, reforms may never be implemented. The Millennium-IP3 Partners approach works at all levels to integrate and enhance communication, cooperation, and transparency among and between governments and civil society. Governments are encouraged to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of management and service delivery, recognizing citizens as clients and fostering community participation in government decision-making.

IP3 operates the South Africa Public Private Partnership Unit , a part of the National Treasury, which provides support across ministries to understand and implement the Public Financial Management Act, a key legal tool for decentralization, reinventing government, and improved service delivery. A key to successful implementation has been to cultivate productive working relationships between ministries and different levels of government to improve efficiency and oversight

Working with the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Pakistan , IP3 designed a $150 million fund to support infrastructure development in low-income areas of Sindh and Punjab provinces. The fund is intended to attract private sector financing for urban infrastructure such as water, solid waste, and transportation. This public private partnership will result in new facilities therefore providing increased access to quality services, particularly in traditionally underserved low-income areas .

MIC successfully developed a multi-country public private partnership Help Educate At Risk Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HERO) for the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), a leading grassroots foreign policy organization. HERO received funding from the GDA Secretariat, as well as USAID/ South Africa , USAID/ Namibia and USAID/ Ethiopia . Matching cash and in-kind resources come from UNA-USA grassroots supporters, private foundations, and corporations for a total Alliance of $2.75 million, reflecting greater than a 4:1 match. A key component of the partnership is provision of small grants to strengthen the capacity of indigenous non-governmental organizations to provide

TPPA has worked in Ethiopia since 2003 with the Ethiopian National United Front (ENUF), a pro-democracy NGO.  The objective of the program is to develop a more collaborative relationship among the various Ethiopian reform groups both in the U.S. and around the world, supporting ENUF’s capability to build coalitions and networks advocating for improved governance.  Work continues between TPPA and ENUF to develop strategic programs that will ultimately result in a more open and responsive government in Ethiopia.

BroadReach is implementing Africa’s largest public sector antiretroviral drug program in Botswana. This project, financed by the Gates Foundation, Merck, and the Government of Botswana under a $100 million public-private partnership involves a major restructuring plan for the Ministry of Health of Botswana while also undertaking the implementation of a nation-wide antiretroviral drug education and distribution program. This project involves all major stakeholders, NGO’s and crosses boundaries of numerous ministries and sectors to both vertically and horizontally integrating government policies, and is implemented in public and private health facilities. This flexible and integrated response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Botswana reflects a belief that public management is a holistic and inclusive process rather than a series of discrete governmental functions.  Using this approach, BroadReach has been able to make significant headway in a once intractable problem. This model, flexibly applied, could be used in fragile and transformational states faced with similar problems.

In Russia PBN manages the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights, a public-private partnership working to strengthen intellectual property rights in the former Soviet Union by means of training customs agents and stamping out corruption related to the transportation of counterfeit goods.

USAID has supported SUNY/CLD’s Lebanon Relief and Reconstruction Project for over ten years.  As a result of the program, hundreds of Lebanese municipalities are implementing systems for planning, fiscal management, procurement, and civil service using SUNY/CLD’s revenue data bases, personnel management systems, and budget management software.  In addition to being used to manage municipal affairs, this information informs local government relationships with central governments ministries and control agencies.  To support these municipalities, SUNY/CLD created data bases, wrote the management software, trained local government personnel in its use, installed computers, and managed the process in Arabic, English, and French.  The management  systems have been popular with local governments controlled by Lebanese drawn from diverse political parties because the systems have often produced large revenue increases, due to greater efficiency and diminished opportunities for corruption, as well as better control over their own finances, and measurable increases in citizen satisfaction.   The project has also clarified relationships and expectations among different levels of government, providing national government ministries and audit agencies with more standardized local reporting of activities and a greater capacity to meet their legal oversight obligations.   The products of CLD’s efforts have now withstood the transition from a focus on old, large municipalities to new ones as they are formed, electoral shifts in municipal control from one group to their rivals, and the need to get continuing cooperation from changing national governments.
Under a U.S. State Department MEPI grant, Scholastic has adapted and translated 80 children’s books into Arabic in support enhanced service provision by Ministries of Education. These books are the primary component of classroom libraries that also include a teaching guide, poster, and storage box. My Arabic Library has been approved by the appropriate Ministries of Education and will be distributed to fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms throughout Bahrain, Jordan, and Lebanon for the start of the new school year. In addition, teachers will be trained in how to most effectively use My Arabic Library in their classrooms.

Scholastic created classroom lessons, posters, and a teacher’s guide for educators to underscore with their students the importance of receiving vaccinations. In addition, a parent letter was sent home with students so that parents would be educated about their child’s health. The dual message—delivered to both students and parents—helped raise health awareness and prevent disease.

For four years, SWA provided long-term technical assistance to improve planning and financial management in local governments across Indonesia under the USAID-funded Building Institutions for Good Governance project. As a subcontractor to the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), SWA oversaw the design and provision of performance-based budget training.  SWA also played a large role in crafting training delivery strategies for 5 provinces and 46 Indonesian local governments.  In addition, SWA provided critical input into the design and implementation of a large-scale roll-out strategy, providing over 300 local governments with some exposure to the concepts of performance-based budgeting.

As a follow-on to the Building Institutions for Good Governance, USAID funded the Indonesia Local Government Support Program, implemented by Research Triangle Institute and ICMA.  As a subcontractor, SWA contributed the development of a comprehensive planning and budgeting system that will be applied to participating Indonesian local governments. The integrated planning and budgeting model incorporates citizen participation into the planning phase and attaches performance measures to the budget, therefore allowing citizens to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery.  Application of this model will foster more transparent and accountable local governments, where the use of local government resources can be linked to policies and the quality of service delivery.

With funding from UN-HABITAT, SWA adapted a series of financial management publications for global application.  The financial management series, geared towards local governments in developing and transitional democracies, provides an integrated approach to transparent and accountable municipal finance.  SWA also incorporated special sections into each volume to address the unique challenges of decentralization and promoting the principles of good governance.  Topics addressed in the series include financial policy making, financial planning, citizen participation, accounting, procurement, performance measures, operating budget, financing the operating budget, capital programming, and financing the capital program.  In addition, SWA is developing two complementary publications that focus on evaluating local government financial condition and asset management.

Under a USAID-funded program implemented by ICMA in Slovakia, SWA contributed to the Slovak Financial Management Training Series.  SWA developed one volume in the training series, the “Operating Budget Handbook,” and co-authored “Accounting as a Management Tool.”

For 4 years, SWA developed a water/sewer financial ratio series publication annually.  The series, enabled local governments to benchmark performance in delivery of water and sewer services.  By using comparative balance sheets and focusing on ratios as opposed to simply numbers, local governments with different populations and budgets were able to compare performance against that of their peers to assess quality of service delivery.

In Bulgaria, IREX provided training to local journalists on reporting local government issues – budgeting, services, and meetings. In addition to supporting citizen involvement in improved governance by educating citizens about their rights to access government information, the project has improved cooperation between journalists and government and fostered discussions of the roles of government and civil society.

Under World Bank auspices, ILI advised the Interim Authority in Afghanistan, in cooperation with Crown Agents of the UK, in response to the country’s critical need for capacity building in the procurement field and reform of the procurement law.  Crown Agents was supplying the emergency procurement expertise, and ILI was responsible for advice and training designed to build long term and sustainable capacity in Afghanistan to operate a modern public procurement system.

ILI developed a workshop on “Detection, Prevention and Management of Financial Fraud and Money Laundering” delivered in Kuwait. This course provided guidance for transparent and accountable management with implications for national security by demonstrating the importance of safeguarding financial systems against fraudulent and terrorist purposes through the use of appropriate legislative, regulatory and institutional initiatives.  These safeguards help to prevent, detect and manage financial sector fraud and abuse, thereby ensuring safety and soundness as well as confidence in the financial system.  The workshop explored various methods and approaches to money laundering, and financial fraud, and the relationship between money laundering, terrorism, drug trafficking.  The course also explored various national and international initiatives aimed at dealing with financial fraud and money laundering.  Particular attention was paid to the activities of the financial action task force (FATF).

ILI implements a program in Honduras promoting efficient and transparent government procurement and contracting systems by modernizing the appropriate public sector institutions, the efficiency and transparency of procurement law, and relevant operational and organizational instruments.  The program is divided into five components: Project Inspection; Support for Procurement and Contracting Administration; Development and Establishment of a Procurement and Contracting Training System; Development and Establishment of a New National Procurement and Contracting System; and Establishment and Financing of the Executing Agency of the Program.

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