Evaluation of Technical Assistance on Bank Supervision by Long-Term Experts in Asia

Policy Papers ◽

10.5089/9781498336000.007 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 09 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Capacity Building ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Financial Sector ◽

Fiscal Year ◽

Steady Increase ◽

External Financing ◽

Bank Supervision

Technical Assistance Delivery by Long-Term Experts are an increasingly important vehicle for delivering TA in all financial sector areas. In recent years, the amount of MCM TA provided through LTEs has been about 28 staff years annually, or 36 percent of MCM’s total TA field delivery (including RTACs). This share has recently risen as a result of the steady increase in external financing and the cutback in MCM’s own resources for capacity building in the context of the recent downsizing. Indeed, the share of LTEs (who are mostly externally financed) in total planned MCM TA jumped to 41 percent in fiscal year 2009 (May-April). As these factors are expected to persist, the importance of LTEs as a means of delivering TA will likely increase further.

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A True Roadmap for Response Preparedness Capacity Building in Developing States

International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings ◽

10.7901/2169-3358-2017.1.822 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (1) ◽

pp. 822-836 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Keith M. Donohue ◽

Miguel Moyano ◽

Dario Miranda-Rodríguez ◽

Elliott Taylor ◽

Ian Moscoso ◽

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Keyword(s):

Program Evaluation ◽

Strategic Planning ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Oil Spill ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Caribbean Region ◽

Simple Application ◽

Oil Spill Response ◽

Robust Response

ABSTRACT Throughout much of the developing world, capacity building efforts are often delivered without implementing guidelines, whereby receiving states accept offers and/or expend their own funds for training, technical assistance and resource procurements without sound long-term plans of how to effectively capitalize on the efforts and truly build sustainable response preparedness capacity. The scope of various international, governmental and nongovernmental programs available to countries in need is potentially vast, but all too often contractors, offering organizations, or multiple agencies within the same offering organization or nation, provide capacity building that is not always linked to each other or designed to optimally build upon each other in a successive manner that moves the sovereign recipient towards a more robust response preparedness posture. This paper illustrates how a simple application of program evaluation and strategic planning, used along with very basic drills and exercises and the ARPEL RETOS™ tool assessments, can help developing states set true paths towards building better oil spill response preparedness structures in drastically resource constrained, multi-agency environments. This paper discusses how RETOS™ was used to assess oil spill response preparedness throughout the Wider Caribbean Region and presents the audience with a new outlook for conducting capacity building efforts in developing states.

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International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300017173 ◽

1952 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 632-636

Keyword(s):

Technical Assistance ◽

Standard Of Living ◽

Fiscal Year ◽

Assistance Program ◽

International Bank ◽

Board Of Governors ◽

Technical Assistance Program ◽

Work Done ◽

The Impact

The seventh annual report of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to the Board of Governors, covering the period July 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952, was transmitted by the President of the Bank (Black) to the Board on September 3, 1952. During the fiscal year reviewed in the report, the Bank continued to help its members to draw up long-term programs of economic development, which were designed to raise the level of productivity and to increase the standard of living through the dispatch of general survey missions, primarily, and through the appointment of a number of specialized missions to study specific development problems in member countries. Although it was considered too early to attempt any general appraisal of the impact of the technical assistance program, the Bank reported its encouragement with evidence that the work done by the survey missions was achieving results in most countries to which they had been sent. The Bank also indicated that survey missions could often have the effect of changing the attitude of the country toward development problems.

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An Empirical Evaluation of Long Term Advisors and Short Term Interventions in Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1095884 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

D. Daniel Sokol ◽

Kyle W. Stiegert

Keyword(s):

Capacity Building ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Empirical Evaluation ◽

Short Term

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Multidisciplinary Evidence to Treat Bilingual Individuals with Aphasia

Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations ◽

10.1044/cds15.3.66 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 66-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José G. Centeno

Keyword(s):

Stroke Rehabilitation ◽

Culturally Diverse ◽

Treatment Strategies ◽

The United States ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Steady Increase ◽

Clinical Procedures ◽

Bilingual Speakers ◽

Aphasic Clients

Abstract The steady increase in linguistic and cultural diversity in the country, including the number of bilingual speakers, has been predicted to continue. Minorities are expected to be the majority by 2042. Strokes, the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of long-term disability in the U.S., are quite prevalent in racial and ethnic minorities, so population estimates underscore the imperative need to develop valid clinical procedures to serve the predicted increase in linguistically and culturally diverse bilingual adults with aphasia in post-stroke rehabilitation. Bilingualism is a complex phenomenon that interconnects culture, cognition, and language; thus, as aphasia is a social phenomenon, treatment of bilingual aphasic persons would benefit from conceptual frameworks that exploit the culture-cognition-language interaction in ways that maximize both linguistic and communicative improvement leading to social re-adaptation. This paper discusses a multidisciplinary evidence-based approach to develop ecologically-valid treatment strategies for bilingual aphasic individuals. Content aims to spark practitioners' interest to explore conceptually broad intervention strategies beyond strictly linguistic domains that would facilitate linguistic gains, communicative interactions, and social functioning. This paper largely emphasizes Spanish-English individuals in the United States. Practitioners, however, are advised to adapt the proposed principles to the unique backgrounds of other bilingual aphasic clients.

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2004 Overview of Donor and Agency Policies in Trade-Related Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1059461 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Caroline Lesser

Keyword(s):

Capacity Building ◽

Technical Assistance

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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building for LDCs: Time to Reconsider

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.877069 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Raymond Saner ◽

Laura Ines Páez

Keyword(s):

Capacity Building ◽

Technical Assistance

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Blending in: A Case Study of Transitional Ambidexterity in the Financial Sector

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041690 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1690

Author(s):

Beniamino Callegari ◽

Ranvir S. Rai

Keyword(s):

Financial Sector ◽

Economic Sustainability ◽

Organizational Ambidexterity ◽

Management Literature ◽

Innovative Capabilities ◽

Financial Firm ◽

The Relationship

Organizational ambidexterity is widely recognized as necessary for the economic sustainability of firms operating in the financial sector. While the management literature has recognized several forms of ambidexterity, the relationship between them and their relative merits remain unclear. By studying a process of implementation of ambidextrous capabilities within a large Scandinavian financial firm, we explore the role of top-down reforms and bottom-up reactions in determining the development of sector-specific innovative capabilities. We find that blended ambidexterity follows naturally from the attempt to correct the tensions arising from harmonic ambidextrous blueprints. The resulting blended practice appears to be closely related to the reciprocal model of ambidexterity, which appears to be a necessity rather than a choice, for large firms attempting to develop innovative capabilities. Consequently, we suggest to re-interpret current taxonomies of ambidexterity not as alternative blueprints, but rather as stages in a long-term process of transition.

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Medicaid Long-Term Care Expenditures in Fiscal Year 2000

The Gerontologist ◽

10.1093/geront/41.5.687 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 41 (5) ◽

pp. 687-691 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Brian Burwell

Keyword(s):

Long Term Care ◽

Fiscal Year ◽

Term Care ◽

Year 2000

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Sustainability of Microbusinesses and Success of Microfinance

Paradigm ◽

10.1177/0971890717700527 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 91-105

Author(s):

Aradhana Chouksey ◽

Yamini Karmarkar

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Capital Investment ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Self Employment ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Fixed Capital Investment ◽

Training Need ◽

Funding Resource ◽

Selection Of

Emergence of microfinance facilities has raised self-employment opportunities for the disadvantaged group. There are many small and micro entrepreneurs who have started their business with funding support from microfinance agencies. Though this increased funding resource has increased the number of businesses that are started by entrepreneurs in rural areas, another important fact is that all these new businesses are not necessarily successful. In Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh (MP), only 20 per cent of businesses funded by microfinance agencies are profitable. There are multiple reasons behind this lack of success of microenterprises. There are paucity of information in selection of right opportunity, absence of technical assistance, lack of business knowledge and marketing and finance skills, which are few of them. This is an alarming sign for funding agencies as higher failure rate of microenterprises bound to jeopardize, the sustainability of the microfinance in long term and retard the development of region. This research conducted on microenterprises of Malwa region of MP tries to identify the specific training needs of microfinance clients. Further, this research tries to evaluate empirically what are the potential and sustainable microbusiness opportunities, which can be started and run by people of disadvantage groups. Empirical findings through a survey designed on a sample of 54 microenterprises of eight villages of Malwa region show that any microbusiness having higher ratio of working capital to fixed capital investment are successful in Malwa region. Also, it is found that the most important training need of these enterprises is in the field of ‘managing finance’ for small business.

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