Building Urban Resilience: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Evolving Experience (2007-2017)

Most if not all of these lessons are relevant to any loan or TA program designed to bring about major reforms whether it is in the investment climate or in climate change policies and institutional capabilities. Addressing incentives for changing government policies as well as the behavior of groups affected by the policy reforms is essential. In the process of designing such a loan, WB management and staff should have taken adequate steps to build wide support for the objectives of the loan, particularly mobilizing NGOs and CSOs to spread the message to affected parties , particularly those adversely affected by the policies and incorporating measures to financially compensate them for the reforms. It is not enough to just identifying risk factors to successful project implementation but to include measures from the inception of the project to mitigate the identified risks as well as new ones emerging during project implementation. A budgetary support loan to the government is unlikely to to achieve the desired objectives.

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Building Urban Resilience: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Evolving Experience (2007-2017)

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