Evaluation Team
This Report was prepared by Mr. A. AMBO, Transport Engineer (Consultant) under the overall supervision of Mrs. G. HALL-YIRGA following their mission to Ghana in Aug./Sept. 2004.
Objective
The objectives of this review are to assess the policies and strategies put in place over the years both by the Government and the Bank to guide priority setting for the development of the Transport Sector and the performance of the projects based on the standard evaluation benchmarks: Relevance, Efficacy of Bank Assistance, Efficiency of Implementation, Institutional Development Impact, and Sustainability including impact on cross-cutting issues
Main Lessons
- Front-end economic and sector works could enable the country and the Bank to clearly understand sectoral priorities and sub-sectoral linkages in order to allocate scare resources for optimal development of related sub-sectors that effectively contribute to poverty reduction.
- Parallel or joint financing of projects calls for effective coordination of involved donors in facilitating the release of funds in order to avoid unjustifiable delays during implementation.
- Lack of managerial skills and delayed payments can contribute to local contractors failure in meeting their contractual obligations on time.
Main Recommendations
Recommendation(s) to the Bank:
- There is need for front-end economic and sector work to improve future interventions of the Bank
- Bank needs to be proactively engaged in donors’ coordination meetings on a sustainable basis
- Bank needs to support Government’s efforts in streamlining the sector’s institutional arrangements with appropriate incentive mechanism and capacity building
- Bank needs to ensure the smooth flow of funds to contractors for works on Bank’s financed projects.
- Bank, with other donors, needs to oversee that the Road Fund is adequately funded and is utilized for its intended purposes; and axel load control is effectively applied to avoid the premature deterioration of the road network
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 Ghana Review Of Bank Assistance To The Transport Sector 1978-2003.pdf | 547.56 KB |