Together for change and reform

Under the banner, Making Reforms Work in MENA” dialogue within plenary sessions and workshops of the MDF5 hosted in Lebanon last month proves that reform in our region has become a matter of urgency in the purest sense and while the Arab world has now recognized that there is a need for institutional, social, and economic reform it remains unable to push through the implementation phase of the process. What is reform? Simply defined, reform is change in policy which should benefit society as a whole. Policy can be economic, political, social, judicial, administrative, electoral, and so on. It can mean reform of a whole institution, a system, a set of laws, or the way a certain bureau functions. Reform can mean change, improvement or full elimination in preference of new steps towards more efficient access and delivery of goods and services to everyone in society. It will not come