West Bank and Gaza - Second Emergency Municipal Services Rehabilitation Project : procurement plan
Nunberg, Barbara
This, the Operations Evaluation Department's contribution to the poverty strategy review process, examines the implementation of the 1990 strategy, drawing lessons of experience. The strategy has positively impacted the Bank's operational work on poverty; highlighted the importance of broad -based growth for poverty reduction; focused operational priorities on the equitable provision of social services, and spurred an improvement in the poverty knowledge base. It has helped reshape both the composition of Bank assistance and that of other development agencies. However, the Bank has found it difficult to move from the 1990 policy generalities towards country assistance strategies addressing specific social and structural constraints to broad-based growth. Insufficient attention has been paid to ensuring that social services lending actually benefits the poor, and to the role of social safety nets in managing risk and shock vulnerability. Overall, the Bank's implementation of the strategy was insufficiently focused on measuring and monitoring results linked to Bank assistance. There will be two future challenges: a) to design and implement tailor-made country and sector assistance strategies aimed at poverty reduction; and b) to develop a strategic framework for measuring results while allowing ongoing review. This report provides evaluation findings and includes recommendation aimed at achieving this goal.
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