MANAGING FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS

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MANAGING FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS

• INFRASTRUCTURE, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND
  GOVERNANCE WHAT CAN WE MEASURE?
• Rapporteurs Report
• Thursday, 5 February, 2004

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WHY MEASURE?

• Managing for results requires good indicators to
  measure, monitor and evaluate performance
• Compare indicators across time, sectors and
  countries
• Document and transfer best practice
• Improve project, sector strategy, and country
  programme design.

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OBJECTIVES OFINFRASTRUCTURE INDICATORS

• Assess project and sector performance against
  benchmarks
• Improve understanding of the link between
  infrastructure and country outcomes (MDGs,
  poverty,economic growth)
• Identify population segments in most need of
  infrastructure services.

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OBJECTIVES OF PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
INDICATORS

• Benchmark institutional performance and business
  environment
• Identify bottlenecks for doing business
• Identify and transfer best practice
  (e.g.regulations to set up new businesses)
• Monitor progress over time

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OBJECTIVES OF GOVERNANCE INDICATORS

• Examine link between governance (both public
  sector and corporate governance) and growth and
  development
• Identify governance problems (political and
  social factors)
• Advise countries where weak governance acts as an
  impediment to development and growth

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EMERGING LESSONS

• Infrastructure indicators should cover several
  policy areas beyond access (i.e. affordability,
  service quality, cost effectiveness, fiscal
  costs)
• Motivate reforms through benchmarking against
  best practice and link aid to performance (from
  Doing Business Report)
• Governance indicators require specificity,
  transparency and replicability (which in turn
  require country ownership)

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ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION AND FURTHER WORK

• Tailor-made versus standardized indicators
• Qualitative and/or quantitative indicators
• Risk of measurement becoming the objective rather
  than the tool
• Use of performance indicators for allocating
  resources (e.g. CPIA, IDA)
• Cost of retrieving and maintaining indicators
• Public private partnership (PPPs) where does
  their performance stand?

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SOME CONCLUSIONS

• Defining indicators in the area of
  infrastructure, private sector development and
  governance is work in progress
• Expand data sources and joint efforts across
  partners to support country and stakeholder
  capacity to maximize comparability and avoid
  duplication
• Country ownership and harmonization are necessary
  in all measurement efforts, but especially for
  indicators of policy and institutional performance