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Session Title: Good Practice Guidelines and Examples for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs)
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Panel Session 468 to be held in Sebastian Section L2 on Friday, Nov 13, 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM
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Sponsored by the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG
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| Mark Sundberg, World Bank, msundberg@worldbank.org
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| Abstract:
The number of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs) addressing cross-country issues such as preserving environmental commons and mitigating communicable diseases has grown exponentially since the early 1990s. While the value of periodic evaluation has been recognized, special challenges in applying standard evaluation criteria include: (a) programs evolve considerably over time; (b) results chains are complex and multi-layered; (c) central functions such as governance also need to be assessed; and (d) global partnership aspects require a tailored approach to assessing sustainability of outcomes. In collaboration with several evaluation networks, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group has been developing good-practice guidelines, tools and examples for evaluating GRPPs based on a survey of over 60 such evaluations, to complement the previously published Sourcebook for Evaluating GRPPs. This AEA panel, one of two highlighting the findings of this work, focuses on applying standard evaluation criteria to these challenging partnership evaluations.
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Assessing the Relevance of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs)
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| Chris Gerrard, World Bank, cgerrard1@worldbank.org
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It is important to expand the usual concept of relevance of public good programs beyond consistency with beneficiary needs and priorities to capture some additional dimensions of relevance arising from the nature of GRPPs as international collective action designed to address global and regional concerns that the partners can only address, or address more efficiently, by acting together. These additional dimensions of relevance include (1) international consensus on the definition of the problem and strategies for action, (2) consistency with the subsidiarity principle, (3) the absence of alternative sources of supply, and (4) the extent to which the program is actually providing global or regional public goods. The presentation will provide a framework, good practice guidelines, tools and examples for addressing these additional aspects of relevance, based on a survey of over 60 GRPP evaluations.
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Assessing the Efficacy and Efficiency of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs)
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| Lauren Kelly, World Bank, lkelly@worldbank.org
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GRPPs support diverse types of activities such as networking, advocacy, knowledge creation, technical assistance, or investments. Each type of activity presents methodological challenges in assessing the efficacy and efficiency of the program because different types of activities contribute in different ways to domestic policy and institutional reforms, human resource capacity, and investments in the sector, as well as to other objectives such as poverty reduction and improvements in welfare. GRPPs also produce and deliver goods and services at different levels, global, regional, national, and local. This presentation will provide a framework, good practice guidelines, tools and examples for assessing efficacy and efficiency, based on a survey of over 60 GRPP evaluations.
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Assessing the Governance and Management of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs)
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| Anna Aghumian, World Bank, aaghumian@worldbank.org
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Governance is both a means and an end; both how and whether a program achieves its objectives are important. GRPPs also employ a diverse array of governance models associated with the history and culture of each program along a continuum from pure shareholder models (in which membership on the governing body is restricted to financial and other contributors) to more inclusive stakeholder models (in which membership also includes non-contributors). Therefore, this paper suggests that the performance of the governing bodies and management units in their functions should be measured against certain good governance principles such as legitimacy, efficiency, accountability, responsibility, transparency and fairness. The presentation will provide a framework, good practice guidelines, tools and examples for doing so, based on a survey of over 60 GRPP evaluations.
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Assessing the Sustainability of the Outcomes of Global and Regional Partnership Programs
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| Elaine Wee-Ling Ooi, World Bank, eooi@worldbank.org
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The extent to which the benefits arising from the activities of a GRPP are likely to be sustained in the future will depend on a number of factors such as (1) the sustainability of the program itself, (2) complementary activities undertaken by the program's global and regional partners, (3) the ability of country-level stakeholders to take over the program's country-level activities (4) measures to strengthen local ownership and capacity of said activities, as necessary, and (5) external factors beyond the sphere of influence of the program. This presentation will provide a framework, good practice guidelines, tools and examples for assessing the sustainability of program outcomes, based on a survey of over 60 GRPP evaluations.
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