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1 capacity building 4/6/2005 1:18 PM Page 1. THE WORLD BANK W O R L D B A N K O P E R AT I O N S E VA L U AT I O N D E PA R T M E N T. World Bank Support for capacity building in Africa capacity building in Africa An OED Evaluation of World Bank Support opy e C. c dvan THE WORLD BANK A. The World ISBN 0-8213-6241-0 Bank capacity building 4/6/2005 1:07 PM Page 2. OPERATIONS EVALUATION DEPARTMENT OED PUBLICATIONS. ENHANCING DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH EXCELLENCE AND INDEPENDENCE IN EVALUATION Study Series 2003 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: The Effectiveness of Bank Support for Policy Reform The Operations Evaluation Department (OED) is an independent unit within the World Bank; it reports directly to the Agricultural Extension: The Kenya Experience Assisting Russia's Transition: An Unprecedented Challenge Bank's Board of Executive Directors.

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6 The World Bank Washington, 2005 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW. Washington, DC 20433. Telephone: 202-473-1000. Internet: E-mail: All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First edition April 2005. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank cannot guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in the work do not imply on the part of the World Bank any judgment of the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.

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8 ISBN 0-8213-6241-0. e-ISBN 0-8213-6242-9. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data have been applied for. World Bank InfoShop Operations Evaluation Department E-mail: Knowledge Programs and Evaluation capacity Telephone: 202-458-5454 Development (OEDKE). Facsimile: 202-522-1500 E-mail: Telephone: 202-458-4497. Facsimile: 202-522-3125. Printed on Recycled Paper Contents v Acknowledgments vii Foreword xi Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii Summary of Findings and Recommendations 1 1 Introduction 5 2 Assessing Support for capacity building in the Public Sector 5 capacity building not a well-defined practice 7 Key features of capacity building 8 Bank capacity building support to Africa 9 Evaluation approach 13 3 Relevance: Making capacity building a Goal 13 Aligning support with country priorities and needs 16 Designing interventions to meet needs and demands for change 18 Monitoring, evaluating, and using the lessons of experience 19 4 Efficacy.

9 Adapting Interventions to Country and Sector Conditions 19 The overall record 21 Achieving capacity building objectives in diverse country and sector conditions 31 The quality of the inputs 33 Toward more coherent capacity building 35 5 Providing capacity building Support through Corporate and Regional Mechanisms 35 The World Bank Institute 39 The African capacity building Foundation 41 The Institutional Development Fund 42 The overall value added 43 6 Findings and Recommendations 43 Main findings 45 Recommendations iii C A PA C I T Y B U I L D I N G I N A F R I C A : A N O E D E V A L U AT I O N O F W O R L D B A N K S U P P O R T. 47 Annexes 47 A: A Selection of Prior Bank Assessments of Its capacity building Support 51 B: Methodology Note 55 C: Country Case Study Missions 57 D: Lists of Projects, CASs, and ESW Reviewed 63 E: Africa Staff Survey 67 F: capacity building in the Bank's Africa Regional Strategies 69 G: Activities of the African capacity building Foundation 71 H: Management Action Record 73 Endnotes 79 Bibliography Boxes 6 : Different Donor Definitions of capacity building 7 : Early Calls for a New capacity building Perspective 14 : New Multisector Projects Integrate Essential capacity building Elements into Project Design 24 : Four capacity building Achievements in the Roads Sector 26 : building capacity to Facilitate Decentralization.

10 The Case of Burkina Faso's Health and Nutrition Project 27 : Human Resource Management in Health: The Need for a Comprehensive Approach in Ghana 28 : A Well-Sequenced Approach to capacity building in the Education Sector in Ghana 30 : Five Ways to Improve capacity building in Public Financial Management 31 : Project Implementation Units Shortchange Development of Sustainable capacity 32 : A Promising New Approach to Training: Decentralization in Uganda 38 : building Professional Networks to Meet Knowledge Needs in Africa Figures 10 : capacity building Results Chain and Evaluation Scope 20 : Public Sector and Technical Assistance Projects in Africa Are Less Successful than Bankwide Average 23 : Challenges to Improving Government Performance Vary across Sectors 36 : Thematic Distribution of FY04 WBI Offerings in Africa 37 : WBI's FY05 Budget Expenditures (including trust funds).