Economic & Financial Governance

The East African Development Bank (EADB) is a sub-regional development bank owned by the three member states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Other shareholders include the African Development Bank, bilateral donors and some foreign banks. EADB was established in 1967 under the Treaty of East African Cooperation. Following the Cooperation’s break up in 1977, EADB was re-established in 1980 under its own charter and mandated to offer a broad range of financial services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), guided by the overriding objective of promoting socio-economic development and regional integration in the member states.

Tunis has gone from the stage of a country essentially dependent on primary product exports (hydrocarbons, phosphate, agricultural products) at the start of the ‘80s, to one deriving its resources from manufactured product exports and services. To do so, it firstly focused on the export of textiles, electrical and mechanical equipment, and food industry, tourism (and related activities) and agricultur al produce (olives, grain and wines).

According to Rakesh Nangia, Evaluator General at the AfDB, recent changes observed in the evaluation community comes with “huge potential and huge challenges”. While urging the evaluation community to build on the “new-found momentum,” Rakesh argues “it is critical to making a difference and bringing about the qualitative changes necessary for economic transformation and sustainable development. As in the third quarter, this edition of Evaluation Matters further highlights cutting edge solutions to challenges faced by evaluation practitioners.

This joint Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE), prepared by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank (WB) and the Operations Evaluation Department (OPEV) of the African Development Bank (AfDB), reviews the assistance provided by the WB and the AfDB to Uganda during 2001-07. Since the assistance provided by the two banks was not joint, the report examines whether: (a) the objectives of the assistance of the two banks were the “right” ones given the country context and the mandate of each bank; (b) the designs of the banks’ assistance programs were appropriate, effective, and consistent with their associated objectives; and (c) the program and interventions of each bank achieved their objectives and contributed (or likely to contribute) to the intended outcomes.

This country case study of Tanzania is one of a series of case studies that have been undertaken as part of an independent evaluation commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB) of the AfDB’s Policy Based Operations (PBOs).The aim is to support policy and institutional reforms that promote economic growth and poverty reduction. PBOs include balance of payments support, sectoral adjustment lending to support reforms in specific sectors, policy based lending for governance, general budget support and sector budget support. This evaluation has been designed to examine the application of PBOs used by the Bank over the period 1999–2009.

This country case study of Sierra Leone is one of a series of case-studies that has been undertaken as part of an independent evaluation commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB) of the AfDB’s Policy Based Operations (PBOs). The general purpose of the transfer is to support policy and institutional reforms that promote economic growth and poverty reduction. PBOs include balance of payments support, sectoral adjustment lending to support reforms in specific sectors, policy based lending for governance, general budget support and sector budget support. This evaluation has been designed to examine the application of PBOs used by the Bank over the period 1999-2009.

This country case study of Rwanda is one of a series of case studies that have been undertaken as part of an independent evaluation commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB) of the AfDB’s Policy Based Operations (PBOs). The aim is to support policy and institutional reforms that promote economic growth and poverty reduction. PBOs include balance of payments support, sectoral adjustment lending to support reforms in specific sectors, policy based lending for governance, general budget support, and sector budget support. This evaluation has been designed to examine the application of PBOs used by the Bank over the period 1999–2009.

The evaluation is based on a Policy and Strategy Review, a Portfolio Review including approvals analysis, implementation performance and results analyses from existing PCRs, a Quality-at-Entry review, three case studies of infrastructure MOs, and three Project Performance Evaluation Reviews (PPERs).