@article{2014:malli:assessing_,
title = {Assessing Capacity Development in World Bank ‘Program-for-Results’ Financing},
year = {2014},
note = {Program-for-results (PforR) is an innovative instrument of World Bank
financing which links disbursements to results in country-defined
programs. This recently adopted instrument seeks to give recipient
countries a greater sense of participation, independence and ownership
over the design and implementation of their development progress.
Accordingly, a key dimension of PforR is capacity development -
strengthening the ability of State institutions to perform functions,
solve problems and set and achieve objectives that will lead to
sustainable development progress. This paper will examine whether the
World Bank’s legal framework for PforR is likely to enhance the
explicit goal of capacity development. In particular, this paper will
assess the extent to which the specific disbursement-linked indicators
in a current PforR project in Nepal reflect this goal. Finally, this
paper will address the apparent tension between (i) ensuring adequate
baseline standards for program eligibility and implementation (from
the World Bank’s risk allocation perspective), and (ii) achieving
capacity development through greater reliance on country systems.
While PforR has the potential to achieve deeper and more sustained
development impact than traditional transactions-based approaches, it
also runs the risk of being perceived as a lowering of the World
Bank’s safeguard standards.},
journal = {VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee},
pages = {250--269},
author = {Malli, Maninder},
volume = {47},
number = {2}
}