Conversations: What More Can the World Bank Group Do to Support Environmental Sustainability?

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Uncovering Factors of Project Success: A Literature Review

kmilhollin — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:17:50 +0000

Uncovering Factors of Project Success: A Literature Review kmilhollin Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:17

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Interesting, but makes me…

Interesting, but makes me wonder again about the quantitative bias of donors. If not statistically valid = throw away. Basically as research agenda is quasi-academic, notably by journal producing academics who set the tone. Alternative: learn from what private sector marketing firms do = much use of representative FGDs. In this case, FGDs of persons experienced in implementing projects (private firm people and donor people). Of course biases, and some products flop despite favourable FGD research, so we quasi-academics conclude that marketing people just "have it all wrong"? We should be more humble, after all they knew about irrational man decades before we discovered experimental economics.

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There is a preliminary question that in our view should be answered: A successful Project for who? There are different actors around a project: Stakeholders, Governments, Communities. whose objectives, interests, expectations aren’t necessarily the same and therefore there is a continuing negotiations to reach a common agreement.
Moreover, there is a fourth factor to make it a successful Project, namely the experience and expertise of the Team in charge to run the field operations on the grounds that they have to translate into practice above-mentioned factors and find out a welding point to a get a shared consensus among the Actors. This does mean that the Project Leader should have experience and expertise in the Project related matters well above the ground.
Assuming that a Project should serve the Community, there is a wide consensus on the core business of whatsoever intervention: sustainability for the providers, affordability for the beneficiaries, transparency of the interventions along with a tangible impact on the related communities.
How to translate in the field activity the proposed approach? In our just released eBook, we have made a further step ahead and tried to answer to the question: “The Gateway to Africa Inclusive Growth – JAMBO FUND” https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/the-gateway-to-africa-inclusive-….
Actually it is a feasibility study, which is a suitable approach to make it happen poverty mitigation and countries’ economy growth via job creation and people empowerment. Although the Continent is the reference (it was necessary to have a landscape to refer to) the Model is suitable at region and country level world-wide. Moreover, the study provides the MODEL for a business plan: it is just a matter to apply the proposed methodology. https://ascaniograziosi.net/2018/03/22/towards-inclusive-growth/
However, JAMBO isn’t just financing but much more: it is a new way to approach the market. In particular, we elaborated on both the Basel III Committee Document on Financial Inclusion and the Goal 8 of UN 2030 Agenda: “Promote inclusive and sustainable growth”. It is worthwhile to note that in the wave of digitalization, the proposed approach is of utmost importance because the basic question isn’t to provide people with a smart Mobile phone or WhatsApp but to have people eligible for its use. Under the particular circumstances, the methodology will guide the interventions in the emerging economies with a well-defined algorithm and appropriate market segmentation, as it has been visualised in the Slide – letters c and d -, which explains the methodology behind the Project. https://ascaniograziosi.net/2017/06/15/investment-proposal-fundraising/

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I would like to cite this study, particularly the negative impact of (presumably) negative human capital. Is this study disclosed or disclosable?

Yes! To read more about our…

Yes! To read more about our methodology and findings, please see Appendix H of RAP17 here https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/sites/default/files/Data/Evaluation/file…

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Doing More and Doing Better: Key Takeaways from the Launch of the Results and Performance of the World Bank Group Report

kmilhollin — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:41:53 +0000

Doing More and Doing Better: Key Takeaways from the Launch of the Results and Performance of the World Bank Group Report kmilhollin Tue, 06/19/2018 - 12:41

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Are World Bank Group Projects Getting Results?

kmilhollin — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:14:10 +0000

Are World Bank Group Projects Getting Results? kmilhollin Tue, 06/05/2018 - 15:14

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Doing More While Doing Better

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Doing More While Doing Better kmilhollin Wed, 05/23/2018 - 13:46

RAP 2017: EFI Practice Group Update

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RAP 2017 - HD Practice Group Update

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RAP 2017 - SD Practice Group Update

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Are World Bank Group Projects Getting Cleaner, Greener, and More Resilient?

kmilhollin — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:12:25 +0000

Are World Bank Group Projects Getting Cleaner, Greener, and More Resilient? kmilhollin Mon, 04/23/2018 - 11:12

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Doing More and Doing Better: Key Takeaways from the Launch of the Results and Performance of the World Bank Group Report

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Are World Bank Group Projects Getting Results?

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Doing More While Doing Better

RAP 2017: EFI Practice Group Update

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RAP 2017 - SD Practice Group Update

Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) 2017

Are World Bank Group Projects Getting Cleaner, Greener, and More Resilient?

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