IDA - Institutional Reforms: Helping Public Systems Deliver

IDA at Work: Helping Public Systems Deliver

IDA at Work Impact

The implementation of the Governance and Anticorruption strategy is enabling innovative approaches in many IDA countries to achieve sector development objectives, improve institutions, create Incentives for improved service delivery.
Loan commitments for projects with public expenditure, financial management or procurement components increased from US$1,280 million in the period 1991–2000 to US$6,410 million in the period 2001–2010, with an increase in every region.

The World Bank Group helps countries improve their governancesystems and set in place tools to fight corruption and improvetransparency and accountability as a means of improving thedelivery of public services, creating growth, and alleviating poverty.Governance and anticorruption elements are also integral to itsown projects in response to fiduciary concerns and the obligationto shareholders to ensure that funds are used for their intendeddevelopmental purposes.

IDA at Work: Governance and Anti-Corruption
(Sept, 2010)

Strengthening public financial management (PFM) has been acore International Development Association (IDA) objectivefor over a decade. This objective is being achieved by supportingcountry-led reforms and institution building; fostering the harmonizationof donor analytical and technical assistance around government-led strategies; providing global leadership and applyinginternationally accepted monitoring frameworks and assessmenttools to measure performance.

IDA at Work: Public Financial Management
(Sept, 2010)

More than a decade ago IDA focused its support for issues such as public administration, decentralization, and rule of law almost exclusively on technical, supply-side measures such as pay and employment reforms, civil service reform, fiscal decentralization, and court case management.
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Afghanistan: Promoting Community-Based Development through National Solidarity Program. Watch the Video to learn more about the program.

Harnessing Technology to Improve Efficiency in Ethiopia's Judicial System. Almost 22,000 Judges have Attended Training Courses to Update Professional Skills.

- Benin: Initiating Active Private Sector Participation through Government Reforms
- Making Education Sector a Priority for the Government in Djibouti
- India: Economic Reforms Signal Accelerated Growth in Andhra Pradesh State
- Involving Communities to Revive Public School System in Nepal
- Benin: Strengthening the Government’s Institutional Capacity in the Energy Sector
- Using Technology to Facilitate Transparent Policy-Making in Azerbaijan
- A 700 Percent Increase in Customs Revenue in four years in Afghanistan
- Lao PDR: Overhaul of Key Public Policy Yield Desirable Results
- Developing Municipal Infrastructure to Improve Lives in Georgia
- Yemen: Boosting Business through Tax Simplification
- Supporting Institutional Change through Commercialization of Power Sector in Vietnam
- Uganda: Public Service Delivery through Decentralized Government
- Equipping Government with High Quality Data to make Informed Policy Decisions in Armenia

Watch this 20-minute video to learn about an innovative mechanism launched in India that empowers people to grade the Government. Called the Citizen Report Cards, such initiatives complement the World Bank’s efforts to improve public performance.

- What is IDA? The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that provides interest-free credits and grants to the world's poorest countries. Learn more
- Visit the World Bank’s Public Sector Governance website.
- The World Bank's Governance and Anti Corruption Website
- World Bank research on Macroeconomics and Growth