JICA- GRIPS Joint Forum on "Innovating Policies; A New Paradigm of Governance to Activate the Governments' Potential

We are pleased to inform you that an international forum on Asian models of governance will be held as follows.

While Japan is facing unprecedented policy issues imposed by the aging and decreasing population, ASEAN countries are also coping with ever increasing complexity of policy issues as they develop into more advanced stages. It might not be an exaggeration to say that the rise and decline of a country depends more than ever on its agility to innovate policy solutions against complex issues. Meanwhile, countries in the region have intensified their effort to reform the bureaucracy. However, it is not certain if those reforms should lead to their strengthened capacity to innovate policies since they have been primarily focused on the dimensions of efficiency and transparency by adapting the preceding experiences and concepts of Anglophone countries.

Based on the recognition, a five-country joint study has been conducted on the key question about factors that define the capacity of countries and regions to solve their policy issues. In particular, the research has been focused on the mechanism of “policy innovation”, in which innovative solutions are agilely created to policy issues that cannot be solved by conventional approaches. The researchers have probed the issues by synthesizing knowledge of political science, public administration and business management. In this forum, leading experts who have participated in the research will share their findings and discuss practical ways to strengthen the governments’ capacity to solve challenging issues.

●Program (scheduled)

13:00-13:20 Welcome Address by the Organizers
13:20-14:00 Keynote Address by Prof. Nonaka Ikujiro, Prof. Emeritus of Hitotsubashi Univ.,
“Tentative Title: The Essence of Governance”
14:00-14:30 Keynote Address by Dr. Alex B. Brillantes JR, Commissioner, Commission of Higher Education,
“Tentative Title: Leadership and Management for Policy Innovation”
14:30-14:40 Intermission
14:40-16:00 Session 1; “Reform for Efficiency or Innovation?: Overview of Administrative Reform in Asia”
16:00-17:20 Session 2; “A New Paradigm of Governance based on Asian Values”
17:20-17:30 Closing Remark by the Organizers

●Participants*

<Indonesia>
w Prof. Eko Prasojo Professor, University of Indonesia, Former Vice Minister of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform

<Japan>
・Mr. Ichiro Tambo Director, JICA Research Institute
・Prof. Takeji Takei Professor, Local Autonomy College, Former President of the College
・Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka Prof. Emeritus of Hitotsubashi Univ.
・Ms. Atsuko Kikuchi President, Japan Association for Public Human Resources Development
・Prof. Hirofumi Takada Deputy Director of Young Leaders Program (School of Local Governance), GRIPS

<Philippines>
・Dr. Alex B. Brillantes JR Commissioner, Commission of Higher Education, Chairman, Philippines Society for Public Administration
・Dr. Cayetano W. Paderanga Chairman, Development Academy of the Philippines,
Former Secretary, National Economic & Development Authority

<Thailand>
・Prof. Woothisarn Tanchai Secretary General, King Prajadhipok’s Institute

<International Organization>
・Mr. Naoki Ogiwara Director, Research & Planning Dept., Asian Productivity Organization

*scheduled, in alphabetical order of country and name

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) International Liaison Office Tel: 03-6439-6037 / Fax: 03-6439-6030 E-mail: asianleadership@grips.ac.jp URL: http://www.grips.ac.jp/jp/