New Demands, New Progress, New Prospects—SHIPDET 2008 Spring Workshop Starts
On
At the opening ceremony of the workshop, Zou Ciyong, Division Chief of the International Department of the Ministry of Finance delivered a speech entitled “New Demands, New Progress, and New Prospects”. He said, “The work of performance evaluation has come to a time of rapid development with the improvement of the Chinese government itself. It has come to the attention of the government officials at various levels, and there have been new demands for the work of performance management and evaluation; there have been new progress in the work of performance evaluation during the year of 2007; and we have to keep on working on the reform of budgeting management system, and try our best to improve our management skills, to build a results-based budgeting allocation and management system, and to bring the work of performance evaluation here in China to the next level.”
Because of the success of the two SHIPDET workshops in 2007, Ray Rist, Senior Evaluation Officer of the World Bank, and Linda Morra-Imas, Chief Evaluation Officer of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group), were invited again to teach the participants of 2008 spring workshop the basic courses again. The content of the training includes the internationally-accepted theories and methodologies of evaluation and the ten steps to a results-based M&E system. To help the participants learn from different angles the techniques of development evaluation so that they can benefit more, SHIPDET has invited the experts from the International Monetary Fund to hold a seminar on the “Performance Evaluation of Public Expenditure” and has invited several participants from 2007 Spring Workshop to share their own experience in development evaluation over the past year. With the help of the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau, Jiangsu Provincial Finance Bureau as well as Wuxi Municipal Finance Bureau, SHIPDET has chosen Shanghai Waigaoqiao Phase II Power Plant and Xishan Dongting Phase II Sewage Treatment Plant in