Ratings for the Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector Program Project for Bangladesh were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was moderate, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... Vea más + Some lessons learned included: complex challenges, such as child nutrition, is beyond the scope of the health sector by itself and requires a multi-sectoral approach. The World Bank can play a role in convening development partners and to ensure that the evidence is shared across different sectors, in much the same way that was done with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the three ones approach. Not having a clear development objective can impact negatively on implementation and results. The lack of intervention-level evaluations limits the programs flexibility and responsiveness. While monitoring and evaluation is important for accountability, it can also help to understand what works well in the program and what needs to be modified. Having a well-designed results framework is important for planning and monitoring. Without a structure for partners and the government to design, debate, and evaluate new policy, it seems unlikely that there will be structural reform in the future. It also requires development partners to strengthen their understanding of political economy and to develop strategies to gradually expand their dialogue. At the same time, the government needs to identify its priorities and openly discuss its political limitations.
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Informe de evaluación de proyecto 88078 JUN 24, 2014
Ratings for the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development Project for Bangladesh were as follows: outcome was highly satisfactory, risk to development outcomes was moderate, Bank performance was satisfactory, and Borrower performance was highly satisfactory.
... Vea más + Ratings for the Power Sector Development Technical Assistance Project were as follows: outcome was unsatisfactory, risk to development outcomes was high, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was unsatisfactory. Some lessons learned included: public-private partnership model can efficiently deliver large-scale and dispersed off-grid electricity services, by deploying public funding through private sector stakeholders. Flexibility to adapt to market conditions and signals are the hallmarks of this model, while quality assurance and after-sales and maintenance service mechanisms are a necessity for acceptance by beneficiaries. One-off technical assistance or credit support operations should be highly strategic, selective and practical in supporting policy and institutional issues of a complex nature. The PSD technical assistance project took on an ambitious agenda covering power sector policies, regulation, industry structure and private sector participation, and struggled to get traction on any of these matters. Achieving broader social and economic outcomes from electricity access provision will primarily depend upon the pursuit of a least cost path for grid expansion backed by appropriate sector policies, complemented by off-grid electricity in the interim or permanently as needed.
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Informe de evaluación de proyecto 88546 JUN 20, 2014
This knowledge note is the second of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Since its inception in 2003, Bangladesh's solar home system program has installed about three million electrification systems in rural households, two-thirds of them in the last three years.
... Vea más + The program is the most dynamic off-grid electrification program in the world, benefitting more than 15 million people and contributing about 130 MW in renewable energy generation capacity. The case study for Bangladesh is interesting, because off-grid electrification is crucial to reaching universal access. Achieving universal access to modern energy services is one of the three complementary objectives of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative. Bangladesh's rural electrification program was initiated in 1977 with the creation of the Rural Electrification Board (REB). Yet, it was estimated that at the prevailing pace of grid electrification, Bangladesh was going to take 50 years to reach universal access. By 2002, it had become apparent that an off-grid approach was needed to complement efforts to extend the grid. When the World Bank's first RERED project was being designed in 2002, a two-pronged approach was adopted to promote the use of solar home systems in rural areas, thereby leveraging the country's renewable energy potential, while continuing to help the REB and rural cooperatives improve their operational and financial performance. The programs final design is a good example of how international experience and local know-how can come together to yield an innovative design that suits the country's circumstances. The project's design was flexible (with a range of subsidies and system sizes, for example), allowing for quick adaptation to evolving technology and market conditions, and to consumer feedback.
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This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid survey that collects non-consumption data from all surveyed households and consumption data from only a small subsample.
... Vea más + Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries cannot afford to carry out such surveys on a regular basis. One option is to collect only non-consumption data and use consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is cost-effective because collection of non-consumption data is much cheaper than collection of consumption data, it is vulnerable to a structural change between the current and previous household surveys and might produce poverty estimates that are not comparable with the previous ones. Instead, the hybrid approach creates consumption models from a subsample of the current survey and applies them to the entire survey to project consumption data for all households in the sample. This paper examines the hybrid approach with data from the Bangladesh Household Income Expenditure Surveys of 2000 and 2005. Improvements in accuracy are achieved even with subsamples of just 320 or 640 households. Budget simulations confirm that the additional cost of collecting consumption data for such small subsamples is minimal.
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas WPS6909 JUN 01, 2014