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MANAGING FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS. INFRASTRUCTURE, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE: WHAT CAN WE MEASURE? Rapporteur’s Report Thursday, 5 February, 2004. WHY MEASURE?. Managing for results requires good indicators to measure, monitor and evaluate performance
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MANAGING FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS INFRASTRUCTURE, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE: WHAT CAN WE MEASURE? Rapporteur’s Report Thursday, 5 February, 2004
WHY MEASURE? • Managing for results requires good indicators to measure, monitor and evaluate performance • Compare indicators across time, sectors and countries • Document and transfer best practice • Improve project, sector strategy, and country programme design.
OBJECTIVES OFINFRASTRUCTURE INDICATORS • Assess project and sector performance against benchmarks • Improve understanding of the link between infrastructure and country outcomes (MDGs, poverty,economic growth) • Identify population segments in most need of infrastructure services.
OBJECTIVES OF PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS • Benchmark institutional performance and business environment • Identify bottlenecks for doing business • Identify and transfer best practice (e.g.regulations to set up new businesses) • Monitor progress over time
OBJECTIVES OF GOVERNANCE INDICATORS • Examine link between governance (both public sector and corporate governance) and growth and development • Identify governance problems (political and social factors) • Advise countries where weak governance acts as an impediment to development and growth
EMERGING LESSONS • Infrastructure indicators should cover several policy areas beyond access (i.e. affordability, service quality, cost effectiveness, fiscal costs) • Motivate reforms through benchmarking against best practice and link aid to performance (from Doing Business Report) • Governance indicators require specificity, transparency and replicability (which in turn require country ownership)
ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION AND FURTHER WORK • Tailor-made versus standardized indicators • Qualitative and/or quantitative indicators • Risk of measurement becoming the objective rather than the tool • Use of performance indicators for allocating resources (e.g. CPIA, IDA) • Cost of retrieving and maintaining indicators • Public private partnership (PPPs): where does their performance stand?
SOME CONCLUSIONS • Defining indicators in the area of infrastructure, private sector development and governance is work in progress • Expand data sources and joint efforts across partners to support country and stakeholder capacity to maximize comparability and avoid duplication • Country ownership and harmonization are necessary in all measurement efforts, but especially for indicators of policy and institutional performance