Miracles of Development: Good Governance and Capacity Building
Third Annual Global Forum
World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C.
July 9-11, 2008
In Partnership with The World Bank, Speaker's Bureau

Resources for Governance and Capacity Building

• Main Governance Site
  The World Bank Good Governance and Anti-Corruption website. It provides very useful data and widely accepted definition.

• Worldwide Governance Indicators
  There are indicators to measure good governance. You will be able to select indicators and group of countries you are interested to compare.

• Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
  Provides some very useful and important data.

• Governance and Capacity Building
  The World Bank website on Governance and Capacity Building.

• Building Capacity for Stabilization & Reconstruction
  A testimony by Ambassador Pascual on Capacity building
  

• Executive Boards in International Organizations: Lessons for Strengthening IMF Governance
  Research done by the Brookings Institute. This paper compares and contrasts the governing body with the executive boards of eleven other intergovernmental organizations.
  
  
• The Future of the International Monetary Fund
  The current financial turmoil in the United States has become the concern for many other countries. This paper explains how the IMF should react and reshape itself to work with governments.
  
  
• Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations
  This website provides capacity building to NGOs. An aspect which is forgotten most of the time.
  
  
• Asian Development Bank
  Asian Development Bank provides the Social Capacity building aspect.
  
  
• InWEnt - Capacity Building International
  An organization focused on Social Capacity building that provides a different point of view than that of a governmental organization such as the ADB.