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Most developing countries’ health sector projects, due to complexity, face major implementation bottlenecks which have culminated in the slow disbursement of project funds and failure to achieve expected development outcomes. This is mainly due to lack of capacity in program planning leading to unrealistic short-term and medium-term targets, weak program implementation, and limited monitoring mechanisms to track progress. To ensure the timely and successful achievement of project outcomes, the World Bank is using the Rapid Results Approach (RRA), a results-oriented planning and management tool that empowers clients to plan programs by establishing realistic targets in the short and medium-term, effectively implement corresponding activities to achieve results in a specific time-frame.
The WBI is assisting client countries to develop their planning capacity by using the RRA to achieve tangible targets within a 100-day time-frame as a means of achieving overall project or sectoral goals. The RRA methodology is typically applied to projects or programs when implementation is slow and not progressing as originally planned. Slow implementation could be due to bureaucratic hurdles, lack of clarity about who should do what, or lack of understanding about how the various parts of the project fit together to support the project’s success. If there is a clear understanding of what goals need to be achieved, and senior-level support to achieve them, then RRA should be considered. WBI has collaborated with the Government of Tanzania to apply the RRA in its health sector with remarkable success.
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