Responding to Global Public Bads : Learning from Evaluation of the World Bank Experience with Avian Influenza 2006-13
The World Bank’s efforts to combat avian influenza and help countries to build capacity to prevent and mitigate pandemics offers a useful example in understanding how the agency can contribute to the provision of global public goods. This review ai...
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Format: | Evaluation |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26249213/responding-global-public-bads-learning-evaluation-world-bank-experience-avian-influenza-2006-13 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24131 |
Summary: | The World Bank’s efforts to combat avian
influenza and help countries to build capacity to prevent
and mitigate pandemics offers a useful example in
understanding how the agency can contribute to the provision
of global public goods. This review aims to inform the
provision of these goods by offering lessons from evaluation
of the avian influenza experience. The experience also
offers an example of the Bank playing a key role in the
international response to an unfolding international crisis
in a technical area with which it was largely unfamiliar.
And provides a case study on how the Bank struggles to work
effectively across sectors, both within the institution
itself and in the client countries it operates in. The
report aims to inform the design of any future avian
influenza and zoonotic disease and pandemic preparedness
interventions, and also to discuss the wider strategic
lessons from the intervention that are relevant to programs
responding to emergencies, providing global public goods, or
cooperating with external technical agencies. The report
also aims to assess the current state of the pandemic
preparedness agenda, and to provide guidance on possible
ways forward. The report also draws on additional interviews
with Bank staff and international agency staff, on World
Bank project and program documentation and reports, on the
wider literature on avian influenza, and on other documents. |
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