2008 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness

Shared Global Challenges

World Bank

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9780821377161
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Economics

For the World Bank and its partners, the ever-present test is to deliver results-to lift people out of poverty and promote socially and environmentally sustainable development. Achieving such success in any individual country is increasingly intertwined with making progress on shared global challenges. The '2008 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness', an independent evaluation, presents evidence on the Bank's efforts in two important and connected areas: tracking outcomes of Bank projects and country programs; and progress in fostering global public goods, such as protecting the earth's climate and preventing the spread of dangerous communicable diseases.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Executive Summary
• Management Comments: Summary
• Chairman’s Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE)
• Evaluation Snapshot in Selected Languages
• 1 Introduction
• PART I: TRACKING BANK PERFORMANCE
• 2 Development Outcomes: Indicators of Performance
• Measuring Project Performance: Trends from IEG Monitoring
• Project Outcomes in Fiscal 2007 Data
• How It Adds Up: Outcomes of Bank Country Programs
• 3 Underpinning Impact—M&E and Results Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation Systems at the Project Level
• Country-Level M&E: Early Evidence from Results-Based CASs
• Managing Global Programs and Partnerships: An Emerging Agenda
• Improving Our Understanding of Causality: The Use of Impact Evaluations
• Monitoring Institutional Effectiveness
• 4 Lessons and Opportunities
• Practical Lessons for the Near Term
• Directions for the Overall Bank Agenda
• PART II: SHARED GLOBAL CHALLENGES—LESSONS FROM THE BANK’S EXPERIENCE
• 5 The Challenge of Global Public Goods
• 6 Using the Bank’s Country-Based Model to Foster Global Public Goods: Does It Work?
• How It Works in Theory—the Bank’s Strategic Setting for Fostering Global Public Goods
• Country Programs in Practice—from Strategy to Action
• 7 The Bank’s Advocacy on Global Public Goods: What Has Worked and What Has Not?
• The Dimensions of Advocacy
• Advocacy at Its Best: The Bank’s Experience with Trade
• The Complex Challenge of Environmental Commons and Climate Change
• Creating a Unified Response: Learning from Avian Flu
• Effective Advocacy Benefits from Voice and Representation
• New Dimensions of Advocacy: Innovation through Financial Capabilities
• 8 Improving the Bank’s Support for Global Public Goods: Lessons from Experience
• Appendixes
• A: Project Performance Results
• B: Monitoring and Evaluation Overview
• C: IEG’s Self-Evaluation: Improving Effectiveness
• D: Features of Global Public Goods
• E: Management Comments
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Box 2.1 What Does a Satisfactory Project Look Like? Illustrations of Development Impact
• Box 2.2 What Does a Satisfactory Country Program Look Like?
• Box 3.1 M&E Findings and Recommendations in Recent IEG Evaluations
• Box 3.2 Armenia Joint Country Portfolio Performance Review
• Box 3.3 Results Measurement and Monitoring in LICUS
• Box 3.4 Use of CAS Results Frameworks in Country Program Management
• Box 5.1 Key Characteristics of Global Public Goods
• Box 6.1 Brazil: A Best Practice in Integrating GPG Themes in Country Strategies
• Box 6.2 Emerging Good Practice from the Regions
• Box 6.3 Bank GPG and MIC Strategies: Fates Entwined
• Box 7.1 Advocacy for Carbon Finance: The Bank’s Role in the Growth of a World Market
• Box 7.2 Clean and Dirty Energy—Can the Bank Do Both?
• Box 7.3 Importance of Collaboration on Advocacy: HIV/AIDS
• Box 7.4 Governance as Institutional Experimentation: GEF
• Box 7.5 From Shareholder to Stakeholder Model: CGIAR
• Figure 2.1 Project Performance Has Improved over the Medium Term
• Figure 2.2 Trends in Sectoral Performance
• Figure 2.3 Africa’s Projects Have Improved Substantially but Still Lag Behind Other Regions
• Figure 2.4 CAEs Show Three-Fifths with Outcomes Moderately Satisfactory or Better
• Figure 2.5 CASCR Reviews Indicate That Bank Programs in MICs Outperform Those in LICs
• Figure 3.1 Projects with Higher Outcome Ratings Have Better M&E Ratings
• Figure 3.2 M&E Is Rated Modest or Lower in Two-Thirds of ICR Reviews
• Figure 3.3 About 70 Percent of Ongoing Evaluations Are Clustered in Five Areas
• Figure 3.4 Nearly Two-Thirds of Ongoing Evaluations Are Located in Two Regions
• Figure 6.1 Bank Expenditures on Main GPG Themes
• Figure 6.2 IBRD and IDA Lending for Main GPG Themes
• Figure 6.3 Most Global Programs Do Not Focus on GPGs, but Most of the Bank’s GPP Resources Are Devoted to Those That Do
• Figure 7.1 Less Than Half of Funds Committed to Integrated Country Plans Have Been Disbursed
• Table 2.1 Distribution of Project Ratings Moved Up the Scale in FY03–07
• Table 2.2 Disconnect between the Bank’s Self-Ratings and IEG Ratings Increased Dramatically in FY07
• Table 2.3 Summary of CAE Ratings, FY98–08
• Table 2.4 Summary of CASCR Review Ratings, FY03–08