Liberia's New National Development Strategy : Planning for Stronger Results in a Low Capacity Context
Fragile countries face deep institutional constraints that require attention to achieve better development outcomes for their citizens. Underlying issues such as fragmented development efforts across sectors, limited capacity to drive change and la...
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| Format: | Other Poverty Study |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17910228/liberias-new-national-development-strategy-planning-stronger-results-low-capacity-context http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16456 |
| Summary: | Fragile countries face deep
institutional constraints that require attention to achieve
better development outcomes for their citizens. Underlying
issues such as fragmented development efforts across
sectors, limited capacity to drive change and lack of
multi-stakeholder ownership weaken the possibility for
results. Without addressing these constraints progress can
be slowed or blocked. When World Bank Institute (WBI)
partnered with the Government of Liberia and World Bank
regional team to support the country s second Poverty
Reduction Strategy (PRS), the objectives were to improve the
capacity to formulate an effective, country-led and -owned
PRS using practical, collaborative results tools; design the
PRS to drive institutional change processes in the Liberia
context; and integrate national planning, monitoring and
budgetary processes around common development outcomes
toward the country s new vision. The second Liberia PRS, the
agenda for transformation, takes first steps in these
directions. The government developed the PRS by engaging
with a wide set of stakeholders and basing the strategy on
achieving outcomes. The strategy is framed around addressing
constraints to institutional change and integrates
previously fragmented development efforts. Liberia s
experience creates its strategy offers lessons for Liberia,
other countries, WBI and the World Bank around how to
conduct effective strategic planning for results in a low
capacity and fragile context. |
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