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16th Meeting of Senior Fellowships Officers of the United Nations System and Host Country Agencies
their outputs. 5) Tailor-made. Most of DCAAP’s courses were tailored to the needs of
the participants, in particular in the area of improving efficiency and effectiveness in
managing and operating foreign assisted projects.
115. Indicating ways to maximize best practices, Dr. Mercado called upon UN Agencies to encourage
new project managers to attend a course on project management and to allocate
the accordant budget in UN-assisted projects. The training for project managers should
focus on the conversion of a new project documents into sets of action plans based on the
operational Logframe or Logmap. Study tours for senior officials and project managers
of national implementing organizations should not only focus on best practices but also
on understanding valuable concepts such as governance, empowerment, participatory
project planning, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and the relevance
to their projects. Recommendations for action resulting from study tours should
be monitored by the UN executing agency in order to ensure that relevant best practices
observed in the field were integrated into the projects of their offices.
J. Presentation on Scaling Up To Strengthen Knowledge Sharing
and Nurture Capacity-Building, by Mr. Tsutomu Shibata, Senior
Adviser, the Word Bank Institute on Joint Japan/World Bank
Graduate Scholarship Programme (JJ/WBGSP)
116. In his presentation Mr. Shibata focused on the scaling up project on the occasion of
the 20th anniversary of the Scholarships Programme. In 1987, the World Bank, with
funding from the Government of Japan, established the programme for graduate studies
in subjects related to economic development leading to a Master’s degree. Doctoral
studies were not supported. The programme had funded 3,600 scholars from developing
countries throughout the last twenty years. By November 2006, there were 254
scholars who were studying around the world. Most scholars returned home: 83% were
working in developing countries. The Programme had been very successful in building
capacity of mid-career individuals in the area of public policy. In 2005, 65.2% of
the fellows were men, 34.8 were women. Mr. Shibata drew the attention to the fact
that 70% of the applicants were males and only 30% females. Therefore, the gender
element was taken into consideration during the selection process, giving priority to
female applicants. 36% of the fellows came from Africa because the development of
Sub-Saharan Africa was a priority of the World Bank; 16% from the Latin American
and Caribbean Region; 15% from East Asia, 10% from Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, 8% from South Asia, 7% from the Middle East and North African Region and
8% form other regions.
117. JJ/WBGSP ran two types of programmes: 1) The Regular Programme which allowed
the fellows to choose to study in almost any member country of the World Bank as
long as the subjects were development orientated in areas of Economics, Environment/
Natural Resources, Public Policy, International Development or Public Health. The
programme did not finance Business Administration since it concentrated on the pub-