The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development : Egypt Country Study
This is a country case study on Egypt undertaken as an input to an Independent Evaluation Group study of the World Bank's support for community-based development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD) efforts. It is predominantly a desk...
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| Format: | Evaluation |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/340121468026083877/Egypt-The-effectiveness-of-World-Bank-support-for-community-based-and-driven-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36705 |
| Summary: | This is a country case study on Egypt
undertaken as an input to an Independent Evaluation Group
study of the World Bank's support for community-based
development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD)
efforts. It is predominantly a desk study but involved also
a field visit to the Matrouh Resource Management Project in
association with an IEG Project Performance Assessment
Report. Egypt represents a useful country case for five main
reasons. First, it has recent participatory project
interventions across quite a wide range of approaches.
Second, Egypt is only relatively recently moving toward
making participatory approaches central to development
projects. Third, Egypt is a lower-middle income country with
significant capacity and implementation skills at both
government and community level. Fourth, in Egypt, there is a
still quite undeveloped NGO sector compared to many other
countries. Fifth, in many project areas there is an
extremely conservative social environment, particularly in
relation to the place of women, a contrast to some other
case study countries. On balance, Bank performance on the
participatory aspects of CBD/CDD approaches in Egypt has
been largely satisfactory. There are five main findings with
implications for action and one main recommendation. First,
with respect to findings, some of the problems may arise
from a weakness in identifying the core problem - the real
underlying diagnosis - which generally seems to be
weaknesses in public resource allocation and associated
inefficiency in poverty impact. Second, sustainability is a
major concern. Third, the intensive focus on community level
processes may, in some cases, be diverting attention from
important overriding policy issues. Fourth, there could be
better coordination across projects at community level.
Fifth, there are different approaches to decentralization
reflected in the program with some projects supporting local
government capacity and decentralization and others not
supporting it, even arguably undermining it through
alternative resource allocation routes. |
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