Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success

Can an implementation-driven analysis of project success be used as a more granular instrument for assessing the effectiveness of World Bank project By focusing on how projects perform, this paper attempts to capture variation hitherto unexplored i...

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Main Authors:	Ortega Nieto, Daniel, Hagh, Ariya, Agarwal, Vivek
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	ANALYSIS OF PROJECT SUCCESS WORLD BANK PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS PROJECT OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OUTCOME DEVELOPMENT DELIVERY CHALLENGES GLOBAL DELIVERY INITIATIVE PROJECT DESIGN FLAWS PROJECT HINDRANCE CORRUPTION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099753208182227535/IDU0e0f1ff810d1ea048c709dff01d73c3c21432 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37902

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spelling	okr-10986-379022022-08-23T05:10:39Z Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success Ortega Nieto, Daniel Hagh, Ariya Agarwal, Vivek ANALYSIS OF PROJECT SUCCESS WORLD BANK PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS PROJECT OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OUTCOME DEVELOPMENT DELIVERY CHALLENGES GLOBAL DELIVERY INITIATIVE PROJECT DESIGN FLAWS PROJECT HINDRANCE CORRUPTION Can an implementation-driven analysis of project success be used as a more granular instrument for assessing the effectiveness of World Bank project By focusing on how projects perform, this paper attempts to capture variation hitherto unexplored in the aid effectiveness literature. This offers greater precision for diagnosing implementation challenges throughout the project cycle, producing a cross-cutting instrument that reaches across country-, time-, and sector- based approaches. Using data from the Global Delivery Initiative's “Delivery Challenges in Operations for Development Effectiveness” database and indicators from more than 5,000 lending projects (1995 – 2015), the paper examines project performance and the achievement of development objectives across 42 specific delivery challenges. Bayesian model averaging is used for a holistic assessment of the relative impacts of each challenge alongside a battery of structural and contextual covariates. The findings show that issues of project design, ineffective monitoring, and weak organizational capacity have systematically hindered the World Bank's performance and achievement of the indicators. Conversely, while financial instability and weaknesses in stakeholder engagement can hinder success, their identification and treatment ultimately improves project performance. 2022-08-22T14:40:38Z 2022-08-22T14:40:38Z 2022-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099753208182227535/IDU0e0f1ff810d1ea048c709dff01d73c3c21432 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37902 English en Policy Research Working Papers;10144 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ANALYSIS OF PROJECT SUCCESS WORLD BANK PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS PROJECT OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OUTCOME DEVELOPMENT DELIVERY CHALLENGES GLOBAL DELIVERY INITIATIVE PROJECT DESIGN FLAWS PROJECT HINDRANCE CORRUPTION
spellingShingle	ANALYSIS OF PROJECT SUCCESS WORLD BANK PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS PROJECT OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OUTCOME DEVELOPMENT DELIVERY CHALLENGES GLOBAL DELIVERY INITIATIVE PROJECT DESIGN FLAWS PROJECT HINDRANCE CORRUPTION Ortega Nieto, Daniel Hagh, Ariya Agarwal, Vivek Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success
relation	Policy Research Working Papers;10144
description	Can an implementation-driven analysis of project success be used as a more granular instrument for assessing the effectiveness of World Bank project By focusing on how projects perform, this paper attempts to capture variation hitherto unexplored in the aid effectiveness literature. This offers greater precision for diagnosing implementation challenges throughout the project cycle, producing a cross-cutting instrument that reaches across country-, time-, and sector- based approaches. Using data from the Global Delivery Initiative's “Delivery Challenges in Operations for Development Effectiveness” database and indicators from more than 5,000 lending projects (1995 – 2015), the paper examines project performance and the achievement of development objectives across 42 specific delivery challenges. Bayesian model averaging is used for a holistic assessment of the relative impacts of each challenge alongside a battery of structural and contextual covariates. The findings show that issues of project design, ineffective monitoring, and weak organizational capacity have systematically hindered the World Bank's performance and achievement of the indicators. Conversely, while financial instability and weaknesses in stakeholder engagement can hinder success, their identification and treatment ultimately improves project performance.
format	Working Paper
author	Ortega Nieto, Daniel Hagh, Ariya Agarwal, Vivek
author_facet	Ortega Nieto, Daniel Hagh, Ariya Agarwal, Vivek
author_sort	Ortega Nieto, Daniel
title	Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success
title_short	Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success
title_full	Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success
title_fullStr	Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success
title_full_unstemmed	Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success
title_sort	delivery challenges and development effectiveness : assessing the determinants of world bank project success
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099753208182227535/IDU0e0f1ff810d1ea048c709dff01d73c3c21432 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37902
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Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success

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