Mobile Metropolises : Urban Transport Matters
The evaluation exercise focuses on three themes that cut across strategies and project designs during FY07–16: mobility for all (including the poor, women, and persons with disabilities), sustainable service delivery, and institutional development....
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/309551506621356068/Mobile-metropolises-urban-transport-matters-an-IEG-evaluation-of-the-World-Bank-Group-s-support-for-urban-transport http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28476 |
| Summary: | The evaluation exercise focuses on three
themes that cut across strategies and project designs during
FY07–16: mobility for all (including the poor, women, and
persons with disabilities), sustainable service delivery,
and institutional development. In spite of the pressing need
arising from rapid urbanization, Africa has a declining
urban transport portfolio that in the second half of the
review period (FY12–06) focused increasingly on urban roads.
Upper-middle-income countries represent 43 percent of the
evaluation portfolio commitments.Overall, the World Bank
Group has been effective in supporting improved service
quality and increased access, but approaches based on
increasing infrastructure capacity are not balanced with
approaches based on demand management. Among disadvantaged
groups the poor received the most support. Much less
attention was paid to the special needs of women and
disabled persons.Affordability of urban transport services
is rarely analyzed in the World Bank Group’s projects, with
unknown impact on the mobility of the disadvantaged.
Financial sustainability remains a challenge for the
provision of public transport services. Financing gaps
between revenues and operation and maintenance costs are
common. The World Bank is often optimistic in appraising the
costs, timing, and financial viability of mass transit
projects.Efforts to engage the private sector to achieve
operational efficiencies and improved financing seldom
combine the policy and institutional strengths of the World
Bank with transactional strengths of the International
Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency.The World Bank Group has achieved localized
environmental mitigation benefits along key urban transit
corridors or systems, but broader environmental benefits
could be still be achieved by using a comprehensive approach
that combines upstream (policy and sector framework) and
downstream (operational) measures.Weak institutional
capacity and coordination remains a critical challenge in
the urban transport sector. Institutional development
support is a part of 80 percent of World Bank Group
projects, yet these often focus on a single local body
during a one-time project. Longer-term and more ambitious
institutional reform engagements occurred in only a few
cities.The World Bank Group’s contribution to urban
transport development goes beyond projects. Investments
often provide a platform for the World Bank Group to offer
guidance, training, technical assistance, and learning
throughout the project cycle, South-South learning and
exchange, and good practices for demonstration to sector
stakeholders and further adoption. |
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