From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Fri May 01 2009 - 11:51:19 EDT
Excerpt: "The report also said many programs were extremely successful,
including an anti-malaria effort in Eritrea that succeeded in reducing
malaria-related deaths by 85 percent."
United Press International
Report: Some World Bank programs lacking
Published: May 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM
WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- Some of World Bank's health, nutrition and
population programs performed poorly from 1997 through 2007, the
institution's internal watchdog said.
The weak showing of about a third of the programs resulted, in part,
from inadequate monitoring and overly complex projects, The Washington
Post reported Friday
The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group's report, released
Thursday, said the programs were ineffective in areas critical to public
health in the developing world. The report said a program designed to
combat HIV-AIDS in Africa had only a 25 percent success rate, compared
with an 80 percent success rate for World Bank programs overall.
"A third of the projects did not meet their objectives," said Cheryl
Gray, the evaluation group's director. "Over-complexity is a problem, as
is the lack of capacity of countries to implement the programs."
Many projects lacked procedures to ensure that the poorest and neediest
received assistance while other ventures were poorly implemented, the
report said. It singled out a $26.6 million HIV-response project in
Ghana that failed to target at-risk populations from 2000 to 2005.
The report also said many programs were extremely successful, including
an anti-malaria effort in Eritrea that succeeded in reducing
malaria-related deaths by 85 percent.
World Bank officials said they recognized some of their programs have
flaws and were working to correct them.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/01/Report-Some-World-Bank-progr
ams-lacking/UPI-23421241182717/
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