Evaluation Team

Foday Turay, Task Manager, Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV), and James Sackey, Lead Consultant, prepared this report under the guidance of Rakesh Nangia, Director, and Mohamed H. Manai, Manager IDEV, and on the basis of background reports prepared by: Girma Earo Kumbi, Senior Evaluation Officer, IDEV; Dr. Joseph K. Ssegawa, and Professor G. Malumbela, Consultants: Review of the Bank’s assistance to infrastructure and agriculture sectors in Botswana; Rosemond Offei-Awuku, Evaluation Officer (Approach paper); IDEV; and Isaac M. Ndung’u, Consultant: Review of the Bank’s assistance to the private and financial sectors in Botswana;

Monnane Mokaedi Monnane, Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), Consultant: (i) Review of macroeconomic, growth and budget support performance; (ii) Stakeholder perception survey; Samson K. Houetohossou, Research Assistant, IDEV (who also provided the necessary research assistantship support): Review of the Bank's portfolio performance in Botswana.

The evaluation team received strong support from the Government of Botswana (through the MOFDP) and the AfDB Southern Africa Regional Center (SARC), and also valuable comments on the approach paper and draft report from the Botswana Country Team.

Objective

This evaluation seeks to meet two related needs for evaluative information among the Bank’s senior management, SARC, operational staff and Board, and GOB. These stakeholders want to know:

i. the quality of design and implementation, and the outcomes of the 2004 and 2009 CSPs; and
ii. whether the two CSPs responded to the recommendations of past IDEV evaluations concerning the strategic mix of lending and non-lending operations, the instruments employed, and the results achieved taking into account Botswana’s special circumstances as a MIC.
The evaluation will generate information for informing the design of the Bank’s new CSP, and also for improving the implementation quality of the ongoing portfolio in Botswana.

In this regard, the evaluation assesses the extent of the (a) relevance and congruence of the objectives of the two CSPs in supporting the development challenges faced by Botswana at the time; (b) the contribution of the two CSPs to the realization of national development outputs, outcomes and goals, as well as the factors that facilitated or limited the achievement of the results; and (c) lessons learned from the performance of the two CSPs in order to provide actionable recommendations for improving the design, implementation and management of the Bank’s new CSP for Botswana.