Global and Regional Program Sites and Evaluations | GRPP Programs at a Glance (spreadsheet) |
IEG annually reviews a number of GRPPs in which the World Bank Group (WBG) is a partner, in accordance with a mandate from the Bank’s Executive Board in September 2004. The three main purposes are (a) to help improve the relevance and the effectiveness of the programs being reviewed, (b) to identify and disseminate lessons of broader application to other programs, and (c) to contribute to the development of standards, guidelines, and good practices for evaluating GRPPs. IEG does not, as a matter of policy, recommend the continuation or discontinuation of any programs being reviewed.
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In the absence of a global government that can collect taxes to provide global and regional public goods directly, partnership programs with shared governance arrangements have become the principal instrument for doing this. The number of Global and Regional Partnership Programs has also grown because of dissatisfaction with traditional aid mechanisms, the involvement of new actors and constituencies in development, new information and communication technologies that facilitate collective action, and collective decisions to concentrate resources on achieving selected Millennium Development Goals.
Through these partnership programs, the World Bank Group is engaged with other international and regional organizations, other donors, private foundations, leading international NGOs, civil society organizations, and universities around the world. The World Bank Group plays many roles in GRPPs, depending on the program—as convener, financial contributor, trustee, member of the governing body, chair, host of the secretariat, administrative support and/or implementing agency.
The nearly 120 programs in which the WBG is currently involved are spending about $7 billion annually. Bilateral donors and private foundations provide the lion’s share of that amount. The WBG contributes about 2.5 percent—from its administrative budget and the DGF—but has become the largest trustee, handling about 80 percent of the trust fund resources ($5 billion annually) dedicated to these 120 programs. Still, the Bank has operational responsibility for only one-fifth (about $ 1billion) of these resources-- the remainder being financial intermediary trust funds for programs located outside of the WBG.
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The GRPPs employ a diverse array of governance arrangements associated with the history and culture of each program. There has been an observable trend from shareholder models of governance, in which only financial contributors are entitled to sit on the governing body, to stakeholder models with representation from beneficiary countries and civil society organizations as well, but this often comes at a cost to efficiency if the number of participants representing diverse interests becomes so large. About 78 percent of GRPPs in which the World Bank is involved have stakeholder models of governance. The WBG is represented on the governing bodies of all 24 GRPPs that employ shareholder models of governance, but only in 60 of 90 programs that employ stakeholder models.
Representation on the Governing Board of GRPPs
| Model | # of Programs | International / Regional Donors | Donor Countries | Private Foundations | Low & Middle income Countries | Commerical Private Sector | Civil Society Organizations |
| Shareholder Models | 24 | 24 (WB 24) | 17 | 5 | - | 1(b) | 2(b) |
| Stakeholder Models | 90 | 72 (WB 60) | 62 | 22 | 55 | 27 | 49 |
| Total | 114 | 96 (WB 84) (a) | 79 | 27 | 55 | 28 | 51 |
| Source: IEG. Note: Number of governing bodies on which the different types of organizations are represented as members or official observers — for the lowest, executive tier only in the case of two- and three-tier governance structures. WB = World Bank. a. The World Bank is represented (as a member or official observer) in the governance structures of 92 out of 114 GRPPs, but it is only represented on the lowest, executive tier in 84 GRPPs. b. The Toronto International Leadership Centre for the Financial Sector has a private sector and a university partner; the Global Partnership for Youth Investment has a civil society partner. |
Evaluation Principles and Standards
IEG is playing a leading role in developing principles and standards for evaluating GRPPs under the auspices of the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation. The Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs is a free-standing document which builds on principles and standards for evaluating development assistance that have been developed by the OECD/DAC Evaluation Network, the United Nations Evaluation Group, the Evaluation Cooperation Group of the Multilateral Development Banks, evaluation associations, and others. The Sourcebook also draws on IEG's experience in reviewing GRPPs as well as the feedback received at the Stakeholder Consultative Workshop held for this purpose in Paris in September 2006. Click here for more information.
Global and Regional Program Sites and Evaluations
IEG has so far reviewed the most recent evaluations of more than 50 global and regional partnership programs. Click here to access the web-sites of these programs and their most recent evaluations.
RECENT GLOBAL
PROGRAM REVIEWS (GPRs)
PROGRAM REVIEWS (GPRs)
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The Global Fund
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The Global Fund
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The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC) is a land-use planning system that spans Central America and the five southern-most states of Mexico. It promotes the conservation and sustainable use of the region’s natural resources. Formally endorsed by the Central American heads of state in 1997, the MBC seeks to enhance the effectiveness of the region’s System of Protected Areas by strengthening the management of key sites while developing a network of sustainable-use land corridors to link them. A number of countrylevel GEF-financed projects have been implemented by the World Bank since 1997 to consolidate the MBC. The MBC offers lessons for ecological corridor design in so far as the desired function(s) of a corridor must be determined a priori so that it can be managed in a way that yields optimal outcomes based on the functions it is expected to perform. Corridor planning requires heavy investment in local consultation, community-level planning, and participation in the monitoring and reporting of conservation aims. The MBC projects reviewed have been more successful in supporting the enhanced management of key protected areas within the System of Protected Areas than in enabling an enforceable, sustained biodiversity corridor regionally. World Bank support was also effective in helping to strengthen the central environment ministries and protected area agencies in the countries. Although the data on forest cover suggest that overall forest cover is higher and forest cover change is lower inside the corridor units than outside, intense deforestation continues in key agricultural frontier areas. The biodiversity content of the MBC system remains threatened by a low level of intersectoral cooperation, by the lack of a strong regional coordinating body, and by the absence of a corridor-level financing mechanism for the MBC. Nevertheless, the MBC is a useful platform on which the international donor can continue to help support regional conservation efforts, including planning for climate change.
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The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21), the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB), and the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics (MAPS) are part of an international effort to strengthen national statistical systems and the use of development statistics in developing countries. The World Bank has played an important role in this international effort as founder and active player in all three programs. Although the programs have similar goals, they continue to be separate because they arose in different contexts, at different times, and with different sources of funding — PARIS21 at the UN Conference on Development in 1999 to promote a culture of evidencebased policy making, the TFSCB as a World Bank-administered trust fund in 1999 to provide small grants to help countries strengthen their statistical systems, and MAPS at the Second Round Table for Managing for Development Results in 2004 as a global plan to improve development statistics. IEG’s Global Program Review confirms the findings of recent evaluations of the three programs on their strong relevance, their strong record of outputs in the six MAPS’ priority areas, cost-efficiency, and compliance with generally accepted principles of good governance. The Review found that significant progress has been achieved in the primary objective of encouraging and supporting developing countries to design National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDSs), but only some progress in NSDS implementation. The Review suggests a number of measures to accelerate this progress including: (a) making NSDSs more relevant, realistic and sustainable; (b) reinforcing NSDSs as a continuous process with regular feedback on implementation; (c) more actively involving the users of statistics in capacity building efforts; and (d) increasing the volume of financial and technical resources to strengthen statistical systems.
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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 to encourage governments, companies involved in extractive industries, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and others to work together voluntarily to promote transparency of payments and revenues in order to address the paradoxical “resource curse,” which is that two-thirds of the world’s poorest people live in countries that are rich in natural resources. Two related organizations—EITI in Oslo and a Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF-EITI) in the World Bank— work together to achieve shared objectives, with the MDTF-EITI providing technical assistance in support of country-level EITI processes. The EITI and MDTF-EITI are in the process of achieving their narrowly defined, specific objective of increasing transparency over payments and revenue from the extractive sector: 42 resource-rich countries have publicly endorsed the EITI process, and an additional 14 are at some stage in the endorsement process. But promoting transparency will only bring benefits if it can be linked to higher-order goals that will help resource-dependent countries address the resource curse in a way that contributes to reducing poverty. To show that EITI and MDTF-EITI can contribute to achieving tangible welfare benefits, in the form of improved revenue management and reduced corruption, for example, remains a challenge for the second phase of the programs.
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The World Bank's Involvement in Global and Regional Partnership Programs
Fostering partnerships to address global challenges and share knowledge is a cornerstone of the Bank’s strategic vision. Global and Regional Partnership Programs with shared governance are a basic building block in this effort and have become a significant line of business for the World Bank Group, and hence for evaluation by IEG.
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Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs
This Sourcebook has been prepared by the IEG under the auspices of OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation. It provides indicative principles and standards aimed to improve the independence and quality of program-level evaluations of GRPPs in order to enhance the relevance and effectiveness of the programs. Since its publication in 2006 the Sourcebook has become a useful reference guide widely used by professional evaluators, bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and the governing and management bodies of GRPPs.
