Morocco, a leading country in managing-for-results development, Wolfensohn says

Head of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, on Thursday termed Morocco as a leading country in the field of managing-for-results development.

Wolfensohn is currently taking part to the second round table on the "managing-for-results" approach, organized in Marrakesh this Feb.4- 5 by the WB and the African Development Bank (ADB).

You have led the way for you have good professionals who work in the orientation of this conference, he told MAP news agency.

The executive also lauded "the good atmosphere prevailing among participants."

Finance and development ministers of several countries are also taking part in the encounter 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 the 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 first edition of the this round table was held in Washington in 2002.