This global program review (GPR) principal purposes are: (a) to help improve the relevance and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s partnership with the global environment facility (GEF), and (b) to draw lessons for the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF and other large global partnership programs.
... Exibir mais + Since the millennium declaration in 2000, the Bank Group has become involved in a growing number of large partnership programs that pool donor resources to finance country level investments to help countries achieve specific millennium development goals (MDGs), that have inclusive governance structures, and that subscribe to the 2005 Paris declaration on aid effectiveness. In addition to being one of the founding partners of the GEF, the World Bank plays three major roles in the GEF: (a) as the trustee of the GEF and related trust funds; (b) as one of the original three implementing agencies of GEF-financed projects; and (c) as host of the GEF Secretariat - providing a range of administrative support services, such as human resources, communications, and legal services. The review examines the Bank Group’s experience with the GEF’s allocation of resources among countries and focal areas, and with the GEF’s approaches to incremental cost analysis, co-financing, and leveraging. It also assesses how the World Bank has fulfilled its corporate roles as an implementing agency, assesses factors that facilitate or hamper the fulfillment of these roles, and reviews how potential conflicts of interest have been managed among the multiple roles that the World Bank plays in the GEF. Chapter one presents introduction, purpose, and methodology. Chapter two describes the origin and evolution of the GEF from 1991 to the present, focusing on those aspects that have the most relevance to the World Bank as implementing agency. Chapters three through eight is organized around the eight principal evaluation questions of this review. Chapter nine is a conclusion that presents the major lessons of this review for the Bank Group - GEF partnership and by extension for the Bank Group’s involvement in other large partnership programs.
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Publicação 101077 NOV 18, 2015
Palenberg,Markus A.; Gerrard, Chris; York, NickDisclosed
Global alliance for vaccines and immunization (GAVI) is the third largest multilateral in the health sector. It has a single-purpose mandate, to increase access to immunization in poor countries.
... Exibir mais + The World Bank is a founding partner to GAVI and remains a major partner, particularly at a financial level by supporting operations of two major innovative financial mechanisms on its behalf. The Bank’s most significant contribution is a key role in the establishment and management of two innovative financing mechanisms (International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) and Advanced Market Commitment (AMC)) that have contributed one-third of GAVI’s financial resources from 2000 to 2010. The relationship with GAVI has been collegial and constructive in countries where there is engagement, but in many countries the Bank is not substantially involved in immunization. This review concludes that the status quo leaves organizational synergies untapped, and that stronger Bank involvement, drawing on its strengths in sustainable funding for immunization, addressing inequities in access to immunization, investments in health systems strengthening, and donor coordination in health can help achieve greater development results.
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This global program review has been prepared, first and foremost, for the World Bank Group’s Executive Board to facilitate an informed discussion about the Bank Group’s past, current, and future partnership with the GEF.
... Exibir mais + Its principal purposes are: (a) to help improve the relevance and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF, and (b) to draw lessons for the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF and other large global partnership programs. The World Bank was a principal founding partner of the GEF in its Pilot Phase in 1991, and of the restructured GEF in 1994. The Bank plays three different roles in the GEF: (i) as trustee of the GEF and related trust funds, (ii) as Implementing Agency, including the implementation of private-sector GEF projects by the IFC, and (iii) as the host organization of the functionally independent GEF Secretariat. Focusing primarily on the role of the Bank as an Implementing Agency, this review documents how the partnership that the GEF and the World Bank Group established in the early 1990s has evolved over time, offers explanations for observed changes, and draws a number of lessons.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 101597 DEC 06, 2013
Palenberg,Markus A.; Gerrard, Chris; York, NickDisclosed
This is the Global Program Review (GPR) of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). The objectives of the Facility are: (a) to assist eligible Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) countries in their efforts to achieve emission reductions from deforestation and/or forest degradation by providing them with financial and technical assistance in building their capacity to benefit from possible future systems of positive incentives for REDD; (b) to pilot a performance-based payment system for emission reductions generated from REDD activities, with a view to ensuring equitable benefit sharing and promoting future, large-scale positive incentives for REDD; (c) to test ways to sustain or enhance livelihoods of local communities and to conserve biodiversity; and (d) to disseminate broadly the knowledge gained in the development of the Facility and implementation of readiness preparation proposals and emission reduction programs.
... Exibir mais + This review concludes that that the FCPF has been an innovative program that has added significant value at the global level in defining the modalities of REDD+ and has produced a roadmap for countries to achieve REDD+ readiness. The FCPF has been willing to take risks and pioneer new ways of doing business. It has created a space for inclusive and transparent debate among donors, forested developing countries, civil society, indigenous peoples' groups and forest-dependent communities around REDD+. FCPF management could enhance its effectiveness by revisiting its supervision formulas, taking advantage of internal World Bank reforms relating to micro and small grants, and by developing a programmatic results framework that is more reflective of the technical assistance and financial services that it provides.
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This is the Global Program Review (GPR) of three related global partnership programs that aim to develop statistical capacity in developing countries the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics (MAPS), the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21), and the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB).
... Exibir mais + The three programs have been reviewed together in a single GPR because they have similar objectives, because the World Bank has been heavily involved in all three programs, and because of the potential to learn cross-cutting lessons of experience in relation to statistical capacity building (SCB). This GPR has also reviewed relevant internal materials (progress reports, results frameworks, minutes of governing body meetings, etc.) and other information available on the web. In addition, IEG has independently obtained opinions and views on the three programs by interviewing staff of the Bank and the PARIS21 Secretariat, and selected members of the PARIS21 Board at the 2010 Board meeting in Paris, France. This Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) review has identified a number of weaknesses in the external evaluations. First, while all three external evaluations clearly state that the assessment of program effectiveness was in their terms of reference, the focus was predominantly on processes and activities, with insufficient emphasis given to outputs and outcomes. While this may be justified by technical and conceptual challenges, the evaluations could have identified concrete ways in which the programs have contributed to the improvement in statistics and statistical capacity. Second, while all three evaluations share the common concern on the inadequate implementation of National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDSs), they did not provide useful insights on how or to what extent NSDSs have helped with the development of national visions for statistical development. Third, there could have been a sharper focus and more specific recommendations on the notable lack of progress in the use of statistics in sub-Saharan Africa. Lastly, it would have been useful to have more systematic cross-references to the results of the analyses in the three evaluations.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 65336 JUN 30, 2011
The principal purpose of this Global Program Review (GPR) is to learn lessons from the experience of the Global Fund and its interaction with the Bank in three areas: (a) the design and operation of large global partnership programs like the Global Fund that are financing country-level investments, (b) the engagement of the World Bank with these partnership programs, and (c) the evaluation of these programs.
... Exibir mais + The Review has an intensive focus on the Bank's engagement with the Global Fund at the country level because of the potential for competition or collaboration between Global Fund-supported activities and the Bank's lending operations at the country level. Therefore, it also focuses on the design and operation of the Global Fund-supported activities at the country level. This review was initiated before the high-level independent review panel on fiduciary controls and oversight mechanisms of the Global Fund was commissioned in February 2011, and it was drafted before their final report, turning the page from emergency to sustainability, was issued on September 19, 2011. While the two studies are complementary and overlap to some extent, they were conducted independently of each other, for different audiences, and for different purposes.
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The Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) are still a work in progress. First announced in 2002 with a mandate of improving governance and fighting corruption in resource-rich developing countries, the EITI, with support from the MDTF, is in the process of achieving its narrowly defined, specific objective of, increasing transparency over payments and revenues in the extractives sector in countries heavily dependent on these resources.
... Exibir mais + But promoting transparency will only bring benefits if it can be linked to higher order goals that will help resource-dependent countries to address the resource curse in a way which contributes to reducing poverty. To show that the MDTF and the EITI can contribute to achieving tangible welfare benefits, in the form of, for example, improved revenue management and reduced corruption, remains a challenge for the second phase of the program. The World Bank, as administrator of the MDTF-EITI, commissioned an external evaluation that was completed in May 2009. This Global Program Review (GPR) assesses the quality and independence of the external evaluation. In addition, it provides a second opinion on the effectiveness of the MDTF-EITI's work, assesses the performance of the World Bank in its management and support of the program, and draws some lessons and implications for its future engagement. It covers the period from FY05-10, which corresponds to the First Phase of the MDTF-EITI.
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Relatório da Diretoria Executiva 59928 FEB 18, 2011
The main finding of this review is that the Multi-Donor Trust Fund-Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (MDTF-EITI) program is in the process of achieving its objective of increasing transparency of revenues in resource-dependent countries.
... Exibir mais + Given the resilience and pervasiveness of the resource curse, the achievement of this narrowly defined objective in a few critical countries is a notable accomplishment that has created the momentum needed to attract a growing number of countries, donors, enterprises and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) a testimony of their hope that, in spite of the uncertainty and risks, the benefits will be forthcoming in due course. The findings of the present review suggest that to ensure that tangible benefits in terms of improved revenue management and accountability can be achieved, the program needs to satisfactorily address the emerging doubts about the adequacy of the program in the absence of complementary measures, tackle issues with the scope and quality of the EITI reports, manage the tensions between authority and accountability, and face up to the tradeoff between expanding the number of EITI candidates and improving results in countries that are already implementing EITI. The EITI's stakeholders are aware of these issues, which have already been discussed at several Board meetings and workshops. What is needed now is a roadmap for the second phase built around a unifying principle that can help to reconcile and prioritize among competing demands.
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The principal purpose of this Global Program Review (GPR) is to learn lessons from the experience of the Global Fund and its interaction with the Bank in three areas: (a) the design and operation of large global partnership programs like the Global Fund that are financing country-level investments, (b) the engagement of the World Bank with these partnership programs, and (c) the evaluation of these programs.
... Exibir mais + The Review has an intensive focus on the Bank's engagement with the Global Fund at the country level because of the potential for competition or collaboration between Global Fund-supported activities and the Bank's lending operations at the country level. Therefore, it also focuses on the design and operation of the Global Fund-supported activities at the country level. This review was initiated before the high-level independent review panel on fiduciary controls and oversight mechanisms of the Global Fund was commissioned in February 2011, and it was drafted before their final report, turning the page from emergency to sustainability, was issued on September 19, 2011. While the two studies are complementary and overlap to some extent, they were conducted independently of each other, for different audiences, and for different purposes.
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The principal purpose of this Global Program Review (GPR) is to learn lessons from the experience of the Global Fund and its interaction with the Bank in three areas: (a) the design and operation of large global partnership programs like the Global Fund that are financing country-level investments, (b) the engagement of the World Bank with these partnership programs, and (c) the evaluation of these programs.
... Exibir mais + The Review has an intensive focus on the Bank's engagement with the Global Fund at the country level because of the potential for competition or collaboration between Global Fund-supported activities and the Bank's lending operations at the country level. Therefore, it also focuses on the design and operation of the Global Fund-supported activities at the country level. This review was initiated before the high-level independent review panel on fiduciary controls and oversight mechanisms of the Global Fund was commissioned in February 2011, and it was drafted before their final report, turning the page from emergency to sustainability, was issued on September 19, 2011. While the two studies are complementary and overlap to some extent, they were conducted independently of each other, for different audiences, and for different purposes.
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The Global Water Partnership (GWP) was established by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the World Bank in 1996 in response to international concern about deteriorating freshwater resources.
... Exibir mais + The initial mission of the GWP was to 'support countries in the sustainable management of their water resources' by means of an advocacy network based on the principles of integrated water resources management (IWRM). Its initial objectives were: 1) to clearly establish the principles of sustainable water resources management; 2) to identify gaps and stimulate partners to meet critical needs within their available human and financial resources; 3) to support action at the local, national, regional, or river basin level that follows the principles of sustainable water resources management; and 4) to help match needs to available resources. The GWP was chosen for a Global Program Review (GPR) because it provides lessons for the design and operation of advocacy networks for water-related activities in member countries. Because the governance and management of the GWP changed hands in 2008, the findings of this review do not reflect on the current governance and management of the partnership.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57646 JUL 02, 2010
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) was a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder assessment by about 400 experts which had four primary goals: 1) to assess the effects of agricultural knowledge, science and technology policy and institutional environments, as well as practices, in the context of sustainable development; 2) to identify where critically important information gaps exist in order to more effectively target research; 3) to make the resulting state of the art, objective, analyses accessible to decision makers at all levels from small producers to those who create international policy; and 4) to further the capacity of developing country nationals and institutions to generate, access, and use agricultural knowledge, science and technology that promote sustainable development.
... Exibir mais + The IAASTD was a useful experience at the nexus of politics and science. However, agricultural technology, with its complexity, diversity and politics, proved to be a bridge too far. The process itself was instructive and there is much useful information in the reports. However, the present review concludes that, for the substantial resources used, the program did not offer sufficient new knowledge or conceptual frameworks for decision makers.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57645 JUN 28, 2010
The stop Tuberculosis (TB) partnership is a network of international organizations, countries, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, public and private sector donors, and individuals dedicated to the elimination of tuberculosis as a public health problem.
... Exibir mais + The partnership is a loose coalition of partners working to elevate action on tuberculosis, one of the leading causes of death from infectious disease, on the global agenda. The stop TB partnership was formally established in 2001, as it became clear to the international community that the initial targets set for TB control in 1991.The specific objectives for which the partnership has been accountable have evolved somewhat since 2001, and have recently been stated most clearly in the global plan to stop TB, 2006-2015. Since the present Global Program Review (GPR) covers the period from the initiation of the program to the present, it has reviewed the achievements of the stop TB partnership against four objectives which have been synthesized from core partnership documents going back to 2001, namely: 1) to expand the Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) strategy so that all people have access to effective diagnosis and treatment; 2) to develop and scale-up effective responses to the emerging challenges of drug resistance and HIV-related TB; 3) to improve and expand tools available for TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention; and 4) to strengthen the overall global partnership to stop TB so that proven TB-control strategies are effectively applied.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57644 NOV 19, 2009
The Global Invasive Species Program (GISP) is an independent, not-for-profit association whose mission is to conserve biodiversity and sustain human livelihoods by minimizing the spread and impact of invasive alien species (IAS) and which is presently located in the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) in Nairobi, Kenya.
... Exibir mais + Its current membership is limited to the four founding members of GISP. GISP was supported for three years (FY04-FY06) by the World Bank through funds made available through the Development Grant Facility (DGF) and continues to receive Bank support through the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP). Although GISP is a relatively small program, the World Bank's DGF contribution of US$1.7 million accounted for 72 percent of the program's financing during this three-year period. GISP is governed by an Executive Board which at the time of the Global Program Review (GPR) was composed of seven persons, including in some cases the most senior ranked members of the represented member organizations.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57643 SEP 03, 2009
The global forum for health research was established in 1998 as an independent Swiss foundation, to promote health research on the problems of poor countries and people.
... Exibir mais + The creation of the global forum responded to the growing awareness among policy makers in industrial and in developing countries that research related to the health problems affecting developing country populations was receiving inadequate attention on the global agenda. The global forum has devoted its energies increasingly to health equity as a way to focus the attention of researchers and policy makers on the problems of the poor. Annual expenditures on the core activities of the global forum have been about $3.5 million. Bilateral donors and the World Bank finance virtually all of the global forum's activities. This Global Program Review (GPR) assesses the quality and independence of the second evaluation of the global forum; provides a second opinion on the effectiveness of the forum; assesses the performance of the Bank as a partner of the forum; and draws lessons for the future. It contains data from the beginning of the forum to the present, including key developments during the last two years since the second external evaluation was completed. The global forum was chosen for a GPR because it provides lessons for the design and operation of other global programs, especially for advocacy programs, and for international support of health research more generally.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57642 JUN 23, 2009
This is the Global Program Review (GPR) of the Global Development Network (GDN). Established in 1999 as a global partnership program with a secretariat located in the World Bank, it was spun off as an independent not-for-profit organization based in Washington, DC, in 2001 and then relocated to New Delhi, India, as an international organization in 2004.
... Exibir mais + GDN's overarching goal has been to promote the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. To accomplish this, GDN has focused on three core program objectives: (1) generating high-quality, policy-relevant research in developing and transition countries; (2) building research and policy outreach capacity among researchers in those countries to improve the quality and expand the policy influence of their work on a national and international level; and (3) promoting greater linkages between researchers and the policy process to foster effective, evidence-based policy-making.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57641 MAY 28, 2009
This is the Global Program Review (GPR) of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). Established in 1995 as a consortium of public and private donors with its secretariat located in the World Bank, the mission of CGAP has been to help build efficient local financial markets that are integrated into the mainstream financial system and that serve all the unbanked, including very poor and harder-to-reach clients with ever more innovative, convenient and affordable financial services.
... Exibir mais + Its specific objectives have been to generate and disseminate knowledge, to catalyze the movement toward good-practice performance standards, and to build consensus among its many and varied stakeholders. In pursuit of these objectives, CGAP's generic activities have consisted of: (a) providing advisory services, (b) developing and setting standards, (c) advancing knowledge (including sector intelligence and information sharing), and (d) offering training and capacity building services.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57640 OCT 26, 2008
The organization, which is now called the International Land Coalition (ILC), was established on January 1, 1996, on the recommendation of the conference on hunger and poverty convened by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in 1995.
... Exibir mais + At first, the organization was called the popular coalition to eradicate hunger and poverty. The ILC itself was formally constituted and launched along with its new name in February 2003. The mission of the land coalition has been to be a global alliance of intergovernmental, governmental and civil society organizations that worked together with rural poor people to increase their secure access to natural resources, especially land, and to enable them to participate directly in policy formulation and decision-making processes that affected their livelihood, at local, national, regional and international levels. From its inception through the end of 2007, the ILC has mobilized $18.6 million in donations and pledges receivable from donors. The major contributors have been International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (which has provided 48 percent of all resources), the Netherlands, the European Commission, Netherlands, the World Bank, Italy, and Belgium. The World Bank was a founding member and provided a one-time financial contribution of US$1.5 million from its development grant facility in 1998.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57639 JUN 25, 2008
This is the Global Program Review (GPR) of the Population and Reproductive Health Capacity Building Program (PRHCBP). Established in 1999, PRHCBP is a merger of three pre-existing programs: population and reproductive health, safe motherhood, and the program to reduce the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and adolescent health.
... Exibir mais + The main objective of the program is to build the capacity of civil society organizations to develop and implement culturally appropriate interventions in the sensitive fields of population and reproductive health, leading to healthier behavior at individual and community levels, reducing the impoverishing effects of poor reproductive health, and improving reproductive, maternal and child health outcomes of hard-to-reach populations. The review follows Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) guidelines for preparing GPRs (annex A). These guidelines were first approved in 2006, well after PRHCBP was initially conceived and implemented. As a new evaluation product of IEG, GPRs are attempting to raise the standards of the design, management, implementation and evaluation of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs). This is an ongoing process, and programs that are reviewed are not expected to have adhered to all the standards inherent in these guidelines, which had not been established at their outset.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57638 MAR 05, 2008
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) was established by the World Bank in 1988 in response to an influential policy paper issued the previous year on education in sub-Saharan Africa, education in Sub-Saharan Africa: policies for adjustment, revitalization, and expansion.
... Exibir mais + Originally the association was created as an informal network of development agencies in Africa (Donors to African Education, DAE) having an informal secretariat at the World Bank, but by 1994 (when its principles of association were formalized) it grew into a professional association of both development agencies and African ministries of education. In a further evolution, in 1997 it changed its name to the ADEA. This Regional Program Review (RPR) assesses the quality and independence of the 2005 evaluation of ADEA, provides a second opinion on the effectiveness of the program, assesses the performance of the Bank as a partner in the program, and draws lessons for the future operation of the program. Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) chose ADEA for an RPR because of the importance of the sector in the Bank's mission of poverty reduction, because IEG has done relatively few reviews of regional programs, and because IEG had not conducted a global or regional program review in the field of education before.
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Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) 57637 MAR 03, 2008
