Wednesday, July 23, 2008

[EQ] Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support

 

Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group. July 2008

 

Available online PDF [242p.] at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTENVIRONMENT/Resources/environ_eval.pdf

 

Evaluation Summary - English | 中文  Español | Français | Русский | Português

 

"….This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainability—in both the public and private sectors—over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to be addressed, perhaps most importantly insufficient government commitment to environmental goals and weak institutional capacity to deal with them. But constraints within the Bank Group, including insufficient attention to longer-term sustainable development, must be reduced as well. The Bank Group needs improved systems in place—across the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA —to monitor environmental outcomes and to assess impacts. Better coordination among the three parts of the Bank Group is also among the key challenges…."

Content:

Chapter 1: The Context
Chapter 2: The Evaluation
Chapter 3: World Bank and the Environment
Chapter 4: IFC, MIGA, and the Environment
Chapter 5: Enhancing Bank Group Effectiveness
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Recommendations


Annexes
 (all)

Annex A: Evaluation Methodology
Annex B: Relevant Findings from Previous IEG Evaluations
Annex C: Country Case Studies: Overview
Annex D: Summary of Country Case Study Findings: Environmental Priorities and Bank Support
Annex E: World Bank Environmental Projects Assessed for this Evaluation
Annex F: Environmental Portfolio Review

 

Summary of Country Case Study Findings

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTENVIRONMENT/Resources/appD.pdf

 

The summaries below contain a set of matrices that indicate how the Bank has responded to a range of key environmental issues in its country strategies, economic and sector work, and lending and grant operations both before and after 2000, together with the relative severity of each issue in each country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[EQ] Maximizing positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives

Maximizing positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives [GHIs]

Report on the expert consultation on positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives
WHO, Geneva, 29-30 May 2008

Website: http://www.who.int/healthsystems/GHIsynergies/en/index.html

PDF file [16p.] at: http://www.who.int/entity/healthsystems/hs_&_ghi.pdf

“….In May 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting that signaled the beginning of a broad-based, international consultative process for driving forward the rapid development of global guidance on maximizing positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives (GHIs). Around 150 representatives from health systems, GHIs, governments, policy makers, donors, funding and other technical experts from multilateral and bilateral agencies, as well as professional organizations, academic institutions, civil society and the private sector attended the two-day consultation in Geneva.

 “…..There is little doubt that positive synergies exist between health systems and the GHIs. But are these synergies being vigorously exploited by all stakeholders to ensure maximum, mutual added value? Or are new opportunities for improved public health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries being missed? ….”

Matching the power of Global Health Initiatives and health systems to increase access to health services [pdf 5.33Mb]

Presentation by Carissa Etienne, WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Systems and Services, at the Harvard School of Public Health on 16 July 2008.

Presentations

The following presentations were given at the WHO expert consultation on positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives (GHIs).

:: Global Health Initiatives: context, challenges and opportunities with particular reference to Africa [pdf 474kb]
David Sanders, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape

:: Health systems and Global Health Initiatives – the status of affairs [pdf 3.42Mb]
Jim Yong Kim, Harvard Medical School

:: Synergies between the GAVI Alliance and health systems strengthening [pdf 1.84Mb]
Craig Burgess, GAVI Secretariat

:: The Global Fund approach to health systems strengthening [pdf 353kb]
Stefano Lazzari, The Global Fund

:: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative: achieving positive synergies with health systems [pdf 1.19Mb]
Bruce Aylward, Global Polio Eradication Initiative

:: President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: building capacity for sustainability [pdf 63kb]
David Hohman, US Mission, Switzerland

:: Defeating River Blindness (onchocerciasis) and strengthening health systems in Africa [pdf 2.26Mb]
Uche Amazigo, African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control

:: Synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives: the example of Brazil [pdf 380kb]
Jose Carvalho de Noronha, Ministry of Health of Brazil

:: Positive synergies between Global Health Initiatives and health systems: HIV and Haiti [pdf 1.20Mb]
Louise Ivers, Partners In Health

:: Country attempts at synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives: the example of Dominica [pdf 290kb]
Paul Ricketts, Ministry of Health and Environment of the Commonwealth of Dominica

:: Ethiopia: country attempts at positive synergies between Global Health Initiatives and health systems [pdf 220kb]
Nejmudin Bilal, Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and Wulata Lemma, Tulane University

:: Global Health Initiatives and health systems: experiences of Thailand [pdf 56kb]
Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Ministry of Public Health of Thailand

:: National health systems and global aid for Global Health Initiatives: the interface. A perspective from Rwanda [pdf 872kb]
Jessica Price, Family Health International

:: Research on the interface between Global Health Initiatives and health systems [pdf 764kb]
Tim Evans, Information and Evidence for Research, WHO

:: Outcome of World Bank Consultation on Integration of Health Systems and Priority Programs: concepts, evidence and application [pdf 65kb]
Kelechi Ohiri, The World Bank

:: “Antwerp in Geneva” workshop on AIDS responses and health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa [pdf 25kb]
Marie Laga, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp

:: Developing evidence-based guidelines at WHO [pdf 320kb]
Laragh Golloghy, Information and Evidence for Research, WHO

 

 

 

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