Morocco hosts World Bank round table on managing-for-results
Morocco, Economics, 2/5/2004

The World Bank (WB) and the African Development Bank (ADB/based in Abidjan) will hold in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakesh starting on Thursday the second round table on the "managing-for-results" approach.

Nearly 200 participants from aid organizations and developing countries will meet in a roundtable to assess progress, focus on the challenges countries face in managing for results, and attempt to increase the political commitment of the international community to support the global results agenda.

Finance and development ministers of several countries will participate in the round table along with over a hundred experts and officials in development banks.

Two years ago, at the Monterrey conference on development, the heads of the World Bank and other international organizations called for a greater focus on results as a way of improving the effectiveness of their efforts.

The World Bank explains that idea is that the entire development of country-assistance strategy should contribute to country results. For every activity supported by the strategy, country and Bank staff should be thinking about results as soon as they begin planning and they should work toward those results during implementation. At the end of the project or program, they should evaluate whether expected results were achieved and draw lessons for the future.

The World Bank is working on an agenda on managing for results that focuses on three areas: helping countries strengthen their ability to manage for results, improving the Bank's own focus on results, and working with other development agencies to encourage a common approach.

The event is preceded by a series of seminars on means to support development efforts, experiences in this field and approaches of development agencies.

The first edition of the this round table was held in Washington in 2002.

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