JAPAN/IIAS JOINT PANEL
ON
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONTime and Date

15:45 – 17:45

Venue

Athens, Greece

11 July 2001

Conference site
APHRODITE ASTIR PALACE Aegean Hall

Theme

FROM GOVERNMRENT TO
GOVERNANCE:EXPERIENCES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVESIN
THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

Introduction
The end of the cold war and the technologicaldevelopment in the fields of transportation, computer andtelecommunication have promoted the exchange of goods
and services, as well as the people and information acrossthe national boundaries. Businesses have been operating
more freely to seek more profitable markets at the globallevel. Moreover, inter-governmental negotiations
undertaken in the world conferences of such as theMinisterial Conference of the WTO (World TradeOrganization) and COP6 (The Sixth session of theConference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change) have posed great impact on thedomestic policies of the involved governments. The
European Union, a supra-national organization, which hasconfiscated part of the national sovereignty from themember states, has been established to function towardfurther integration. Every government in the world has nowto cope with the changes that such globalization has brought
about.
Likewise, the international capital movement has
been accelerated to gain as much profit as possible, andevery government is therefore facing to compete with others
to attract the capital movement so as to realize economic
affluence among the people of the country. On the other
hand, public administration of one country is being
internationally tested from the viewpoint of efficiency andeffectiveness because the quality of a government greatly
affects the business activities and the profits from them.
Accumulated financial deficits in the developed
countries and the shortage of development assistance funds
in the developing countries have forced the governments toreform their public management in order for them to become
more efficient and effective. The people’s needs toward thegovernment have become complicated and increasingly
diversified because of the social and economic changes. In
addition, the citizens have become eager to participate inpolicy implementation processes such as for the public
service delivery. Under these circumstances, various actors

such as local governments, private enterprises,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and citizens havecome to share the roles hitherto played by the central
government especially in the fields of service delivery andmanagement of public institutions.
Thus, the centrally controlled system ofgovernment has gradually transformed into networking
system of various actors with conflicting interests. Suchchanges are to be called “from government to governance.”
In this networking system, the evaluation of the results
should be acutely required as various actors are involved
and their objectives and interests are different from one
another.
After the financial crisis of 1997, the Asian
nations became obliged to review and reform thegovernments from the perspective of ensuring more efficientand transparent public administration. Partly because ofsuch review and reform, NGOs and citizens came to beinvolved in public service delivery to cope with the needs ofthe beneficiaries in more efficient and effective way. In such
undertakings, the role of NGOs and citizens should be put inproper place and the jointly organized activities by thegovernments and non-governmental bodies should beevaluated from the standpoints of rule of law, and legitimacy.
In light of these circumstances, we will hold thisAsia-Pacific Panel to look into any commonality in themovement from government to governance among thecountries in the Asia-Pacific region, and to discuss about how
the evaluation should be organized for the networking
system of governance as well as the future direction of suchnetworking system.

Keynote Speakerf Mr. Akira Iriyama
President, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, JapanPanelists
f Dr. Kosuke Oyama
Professor, Keio University, Japanf Prof. Mohammad Mohabbat Khan
Member, Bangladesh Public Service Commission,
Bangladesh
f Mr. Xu Songtao
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Personnel, China
f Dr. Khai Leong Ho
Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore,
Singaporef Mr. Hatem Aly Labib GabrKosheri, Rashed & Riad, Legal Consultants & Attorneys
at Law, Egypt
f Mr. Heinrich Siedentopf
Professor, Deutsche Hochschule fuer
Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer, Germany

Chairperson
X Mr. Hiromitsu Kataoka
Professor, Waseda University, Japan(Assisted by Dr. Hiroko Kudo, Waseda University, Japan)
Vice-chairperson
X Dr. Itoko Suzuki
Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

Organization of the Panel
15:45-16:00

Keynote speech

16:00-16:40

Presentation by Dr. Oyama, Prof. Khan,
Mr. Xu and Dr. Ho

16:40-17:00

Comments by Mr. Gabr andMr. Siedentopf

17:00-17:40

Discussion

17:40-17:45

Conclusion by the President

Organizers
Japan Steering Committee for the Study of NPM,
Kataoka Research Institute, Waseda University
1-6-1, Nishiwaseda, Shinjukuku,
TOKYO, 169-0051, JAPANInternational Institute of Administrative Sciences
Rue Defacqz 1, Box 11, B-1000
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Program coordinator
Ms. Yuko Kaneko
Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts andTelecommunications, Government of Japan
E-mail: ykaneko@stat.go.jp