The workshop will aim to draw some conclusions about the appropriateness of different approaches to promoting transparency and accountability in different contexts, and about the strategies that can be adopted by different actors to promote effectiveness and impact.

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This workshop is planned based on the lessons learned and the successes achieved with the municipal governance and anti-corruption action-learning capacity building programs in Latin America, Anglophone Africa and Asia. These programs, carried out by the World Bank Institute have had the valuable partnership of the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Latin America (see details in Spanish at http://www.ruv.itesm.mx/programas/gap), the Municipal Development Program for Eastern and Southern Africa (MDPESA), in Anglophone Africa (see details at http://worldbank.org/wbi/governance/gap_africa.htm) and the Ateneo School of Government (ASG) in The Philippines.

To consolidate knowledge gained, this workshop brings together stakeholders to share and disseminate their experiences in anti-corruption and good governance at the municipal level and to provide a structured platform for municipal officials and citizens to learn specific anti-corruption strategies which can be adapted and applied to their municipalities.

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1. New empirical perspectives for governance at the local level
2. General strategy: Participatory methodology for better governance
3. Access to information and citizen participation
4. Diagnostics and monitoring