Education and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Review of Sector-Wide Approaches
Dissatisfaction with traditional project approaches and a recognition of the limitations of the sector adjustment programs led to the development of new lending instruments to improve the impact of development assistance on the sector as a whole. W...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/1003172/education-health-sub-saharan-africa-review-sector-wide-approaches http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13840 |
| Summary: | Dissatisfaction with traditional project
approaches and a recognition of the limitations of the
sector adjustment programs led to the development of new
lending instruments to improve the impact of development
assistance on the sector as a whole. Within the Africa
region of the World Bank, the most commonly used such
instrument to rpovide support for a more comprehensive
sector development program has become known as the
"sector investment program (SIP)." In recent years
this approach--characterized by a government-led partnership
with key external partners, based on a comprehensive sector
policy and expenditure framework, and relying on government
institutions and common procedures for implementation--has
been used by the World Bank for about a dozen operations in
the health and education sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. This
report reviews the experience to date of the Africa region
in the Bank with this approach: it summarizes the lessons
learned, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of this
approach, and provides guidance and advice to operation
staff in the Bank as well as partner agencies and
governments who will be involved in sector-wide approaches
in the year to come. |
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