COLLABORATING FOR IMPACT: DECRG AND THE

AFRICA REGION

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT (DECRG)

JULY 2012 – DECEMBER 2013

Slide Topic

3 Overall Cross-Support Provided in FY13

4-9 Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

10-15 Project Cross-support Highlights

16-17 Impact Evaluation

18 Support in FY14 and Beyond

19-32 Appendix ~ Complete List of Projects Supported by the Research Department ~ Notes on Cross-support Data ~ List of Publications Related to AFR with DECRG Contributions ~ About the Research Department

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Results-Based Financing to Achieve Maternal and Child

Health (29 Weeks)

Somali Piracy Report (13 Weeks)

Demand for Good Governance Agenda & Guidance on Political

Economy Issues (19 Weeks)

Other Support to AFRCE (Agriculture in Africa, Determinants

of Growth, etc.) (20 Weeks)

Support to Ethiopia Country Program

(47 Weeks)

Support to Nigeria Country Program

(24 Weeks)

Support to Africa Chief Economist’s

Office (52 Weeks)

THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT PROVIDED AFR 272 STAFF

WEEKS OF CROSS-SUPPORT IN FY13

• Total of 272 staff weeks provided by 45 research staff*

• Additional weeks provided by two staff “embedded” in the region in FY13

• AFR received the most research support of any of the regions:

Overall Distribution of Cross-support in FY13 (percentage of weeks)

Largest Sources of Cross-support in FY13 (number of weeks)

* This number does not include support provided by the impact evaluation unit of DECRG (DIME). See slide 25 for data notes.

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DECRG has built a research agenda with AFRCE:

• To address large knowledge gaps on how to overcome governance challenges, and inform the regional governance strategy

• Led by Stuti Khemani, a Sr. Researcher in DECRG, who provided 19 weeks of cross-support to AFRCE in FY13

• Policy experiments of budget transparency for local government accountability are being evaluated in Uganda, with the encouragement and support of the Ministry of Finance.

BUILDING DEMAND FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE

• Traditional aid approaches via technical dialogue with governments have proven insufficient, leading to newer “demand-side”, citizen engagement approaches to improve the delivery of gov’t services

• A new agenda around the Demand for Good Governance (DFGG) includes interventions like community mobilization, community participation in project mgmt, gov’t budget transparency, etc., but little is known about their effectiveness or the mechanisms at work

Studies have found rates of teacher absenteeism of 27 percent in Uganda. Teachers in attendance are actively engaged only 18 percent of the time.

A joint DECRG-AFRCE article in the Research Observer lays out key issues:

Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

THE SERVICE DELIVERY INDICATORS PROGRAM

DECRG has provided:

• The World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor – and the research surrounding it – laid the methodological foundations for tracking service delivery.

• Drawing partly on the technical expertise of DECRG staff, the Africa region systematized this approach with the SDI.

• Ongoing direct support by Deon Filmer (Lead Economist, DECRG Human Development team) via a 50/50 sharing arrangement with AFR; 6 weeks of cross-support by other DECRG staff in FY13; DECRG as members of the SDI technical advisory panel.

• Pilot surveys in Senegal and Tanzania have already had an impact on policy, while recently launched surveys in Kenya and Uganda have generated media buzz.

• Increased spending on health and education has failed to produce commensurate improvements in human development outcomes.

• The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) are a new initiative to track performance and quality of service delivery in primary schools and frontline health faciliaties across countries and over time.

Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA REPORT

• Somali piracy costs the world economy an estimated $18 billion/year

• Based on a rigorous analysis of the piracy business model, the report calls for the international community to shift its focus from offshore measures to onshore interventions to combat the enablers of piracy

• Policy recommendations have been included in the Bank’s Interim Strategy Note for Somalia

DECRG provided: • 12 weeks of cross-support in FY13

• Quy-Toan Do, a senior economist on DECRG’s Poverty and Inequality team, served as lead author

• Analytical rigor informed by DECRG's extensive research programs in trade, governance, and political economy issues in fragile and post-conflict states

The report received high-profile media coverage and won AFR’s Big Ideas award:

Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

GENDER IN AFRICA: LEGAL RIGHTS, GENDER INNOVATION

LAB, AND WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE

• Stronger economic rights affect the share of women who expand their businesses and become employers.

• A new report on Empowering Women documents the extent to which legal capacity and property rights vary by gender across Africa.

• Co-authored by Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Lead Economist (Private Sector Development team).

• Winner of AFR’s Big Ideas award.

• Jointly produced by AFR, PREM, and DECRG.

Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

• Identifying gender disparities has been important – the next step is to rigorously assess solutions that address the causes of gender inequality.

• The Gender Innovation Lab, a joint AFR-DECRG program, is identifying solutions through 30 ongoing impact evaluations and 15 in the pipeline, conducted jointly with NGOs and government partners.

• Led by Markus Goldstein, Lead Economist (Poverty team/AFRCE), with the involvement of a large number of DECRG researchers.

• Women make up half of Africa’s agricultural labor force, but achieve yields that are nearly 20% lower than men.

• Led by Talip Kilic, Economist (Poverty/LSMS), LSMS is coordinating a research program to examine the underlying causes of these differences.

• Scheduled to be launched in March, a new report on Gender and Agricultural Productivity will present findings and policy recommendations (led by the Africa Gender Practice, in collaboration with the LSMS and Africa Agriculture teams, and the ONE Campaign)

The Challenge:

• Africa faces a “youth bulge” that sets it apart from other regions of the world.

• Tackling the youth employment problem requires actions to generate productive work in agriculture, household enterprises, and the modern wage sector.

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

• Even if greater economic activity creates the conditions for robust growth and economic transformation, the private modern wage sector in low and lower-middle income countries cannot absorb all new entrants. Better youth employment outcomes will require not only increasing young people’s access to wage jobs, but also increasing productivity, and earnings, in all jobs.

• Set to be launched in late January 2014, Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa lays out the priority actions that SSA governments can take to address human capital and business environment constraints.

• The report provides recommendations in the areas of educational quality, agricultural productivity, household enterprises, and expanding the modern wage sector.

DECRG’s contribution:

• Deon Filmer, a Lead Economist on DECRG’s Human Development team, TTLed and co-authored the report while on DAIS to the Africa region.

• Tapped into DECRG’s cross-cutting expertise (e.g. education, service delivery, agricultural productivity, business environment, etc.) to provide a coherent approach to a complex problem.

Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

LSMS-ISA’s Contribution to the Solution

• LSMS-ISA takes a programmatic approach, working directly with NSOs to generate data that is:

• Timely: Collected on a regular schedule, integrates with other data sources, available via open access.

• High Quality: Rigorously validated, comparable across countries, well documented, and supported via capacity building and training.

• Policy Relevant: Multi-topic, longitudinal, gender disaggregated, and a foundational input to key AAA (Fact and Myths, Ag and Nutrition, Gender and Agricultural Productivity, etc.).

• Led by Gero Carletto, Lead Economist (DECRG), who manages the (LSMS) team.

• Directly supports Bank operations on the ground – see examples on slides 10 and 11.

The Challenge • The WBG has committed itself to ending extreme

poverty by 2030, but without high-quality, high-frequency data we cannot track our progress.

• Poverty surveys have faced the challenges of inadequate timeliness, poor quality/comparability, and lack of policy relevance.

DATA FOR EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING IN ACTION:

THE LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY

• The Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS–ISA) is a household survey project in the LSMS program covering 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Leverages support of over USD 33 million from a range of donors (Gates, USAID, DFID, FAO, IFAD, WFP, CGIAR, etc.)

• Builds in-country capacity by providing hands-on technical assistance to national statistics offices (NSOs).

In SSA agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for a very large share of people living in rural areas. Agriculture generates employment for millions.

Support to Regional Flagships, Thought Leadership, and Data

The Ethiopia FY13-16 Country Partnership Strategy focuses World Bank support around competitiveness and employment; reducing vulnerabilities by improving the delivery of social services; and good governance and state building. To support these objectives, DECRG has provided:

• 47 staff weeks of cross-support in FY13

• Cross-cutting expertise of eight DECRG staff, who worked on five projects related to Ethiopia

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ETHIOPIA COUNTRY PROGRAM SUPPORT: ECONOMIC

POLICY, POVERTY, STATISTICS, AND AGRICULTURE

Project Support Provided DECRG Staff

Economic Policy and Dialogue

• Analysis of the role of inflation in public finance, including the distributional impacts on the poor and its impact on the misallocation of investment between small and large firms.

• Support to the design of a firm-level survey to understand the determinants of FDI in Ethiopia.

Ha Nguyen (Macroeconomics & Growth), Maya Eden (Macroeconomics & Growth), Colin Xu (Finance), Kathleen Beegle (Poverty/LSMS)

Poverty and Statistics

• Improving the quality of poverty and household data for monitoring welfare and policy-making

Mimi Oseni, Thomas Sohnesen, Kathleen Beegle, Gero Carletto, and Ale Ambel (Poverty/LSMS)

Understanding Agricultural Productivity

• Analytical work on agricultural productivity and nutrition, and the drivers of gender differences in agricultural productivity.

Ale Ambel, Thomas Sohnesen, Markus Goldstein (Poverty/AFRCE), Talip Kilic (Poverty/LSMS), Mimi Oseni

Selected Project Highlights

LSMS-ISA data served as a significant input in all the projects listed above. LSMS-ISA supports the design and implementation of Ethiopia’s Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) with a focus on the demand for data on household welfare and income-generating activities in Ethiopia.

The Nigeria FY10-13 Country Partnership Strategy focuses World Bank support on improving governance; maintaining non-oil growth; and promoting human development. To support these objectives, DECRG has provided:

• 24 staff weeks of cross-support in FY13

• Cross-cutting expertise of six DECRG staff, who worked on seven projects related to Nigeria

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NIGERIA COUNTRY PROGRAM SUPPORT: POVERTY

ANALYSIS, GENDER, AND AGRICULTURE

Project Support Provided DECRG Staff

Gender Support • Analyzed the differences in agricultural productivity between men and women. Will contribute to AFR’s upcoming gender flagship report.

Mimi Oseni (Poverty/LSMS)

Nigeria Poverty Assessment

• Analytical work on agriculture and rural poverty. Follow-up work on poverty dynamics is expected in FY14.

Markus Goldstein (Poverty/AFRCE), Kathleen Beegle (Poverty/LSMS), and Mimi Oseni

ICT for Social Accountability

• Examined the role of women in income-generating activities. Mimi Oseni

Agriculture DPO • Provision of baseline indicators to track project impact. Mimi Oseni

Growth and Employment

• Designed, oversaw, and analyzed the results of a survey to follow-up on participants in the YouWin business plan competition.

David McKenzie (Private Sector Development)

Selected Project Highlights

LSMS-ISA data served as a key input in the first four projects listed above. LSMS-ISA supports Nigeria’s General Household Survey, an annual survey of 22,000 households to produce state level estimates of health and nutrition, expenditures, education, employment, etc.

RESULTS-BASED FINANCING TO ACHIEVE MATERNAL &

CHILD HEALTH

• The Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) has provided approximately $400 million to support the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals: 1c (nutrition); 4 (child mortality); and 5 (maternal health).

• Rigorous impact evaluations are embedded into all country grants to learn what works, ensure value for money, and bolster the global knowledge base.

• As of December 2013, the HRITF was undertaking impact evaluations in 20 SSA countries.

DECRG has provided:

• Damien de Walque (Sr. Economist, DECRG Human Development team) oversees the quality of the entire Bank portfolio of HRITF Impact Evaluations, jointly with Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, and Gil Shapira.

• Analytical leadership provided as Principal Investigators for the design and analysis of impact evaluations of HRITF programs in Benin, Cameroon, CAR, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Liberia, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

• 29 weeks of cross-support by DECRG staff in FY13

• According to feedback providers from the region: The DECRG support was “very effective at helping the regional team think through the practical implementation issues associated with different options” and “clearly finds the right balance between advancing the global knowledge agenda and effecting a useful policy change in the client country.”

Africa accounts for nearly half of the global incidence of maternal mortality.

THE IFC-MASTERCARD FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP FOR

FINANCIAL INCLUSION

• Less than a quarter of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to formal or semi-formal financial services

• IFC and The MasterCard Foundation launched a $37.4 million partnership to increase access to financial services

• The partnership is helping microfinance banks expand more rapidly and develop new products, and help providers to deliver low-cost mobile financial services to low-income customers.

• To ensure impact, IFC tapped DECRG to jointly develop a programmatic evaluation framework

DECRG has provided:

• 12 weeks of cross-support to IFC in FY13 and FY14 (through end October 2013)

• Robert Cull, a lead economist on DECRG’s Financial Sector Development, worked with IFC colleagues to develop the partnership’s evaluation framework, drawing on the research department’s growing knowledge base on financial inclusion

DECRG also contributes to a broader research program on finance in Africa:

• “Benchmarking the Financial Performance, Growth, and Outreach of Greenfield Microfinance Institutions” (forthcoming)

• “Banking in Africa” Working Paper #6684

• “A new index of the business environment for microfinance” Working Paper #6625

• “Resolving the African financial development gap” Working Paper #6592

• “The Global Findex database : financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa”

DECRG has provided:

• Bilal Zia (Sr. Economist, DECRG Private Sector Development team) led the design and implementation of the impact evaluation, drawing on DECRG’s growing program on financial inclusion

• A joint AFR-DECRG working paper on “Harnessing Emotional Connections to Improve Financial Decisions” was selected as a winner of the 2013 Research Academy as one of the best new pieces of research from across the World Bank Group

USING ENTERTAINMENT EDUCATION TO IMPROVE

FINANCIAL CAPABILITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

• An estimated 9 million South Africans are unable to keep up with payments on their debt

• An Impact Evaluation examined the effect of incorporating financial capability storylines into the popular South African soap opera “Scandal!” and found significant changes in viewer behavior, e.g. greater reliance on formal credit, less gambling, and fewer hire purchase agreements.

3 million South Africans tune in daily to watch the soap opera “Scandal!”.

ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS IN ZIMBABWE

• Following the economic collapse that peaked in 2008, Zimbabwe is focused on supporting its recent recovery by expanding trade and boosting competitiveness.

• The first ESW in Zimbabwe in 15 years will provide guidance to the government on how to reintegrate with global markets, diversify the country’s economy, and move firms into higher value-added sectors

DECRG has provided:

• 23 weeks of cross-support in FY13 – FY14 (through October 2013)

• Martha Denisse Pierola, an Economist on DECRG’s Trade and International Integration team, led the team conducting the technical analysis and co-authored the main report for the gov’t.

• DECRG staff produced the empirical analysis that assesses how higher tariffs and lack of connectivity in services hinder export competitiveness in Zimbabwe.

Mining is the main driver of exports, while agriculture, manufacturing, and services lag.

Outcome:

• The report has been reviewed internally and well received by the country team in Zimbabwe.

• A seminar between the team (including all DECRG members involved) and Directors of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will be conducted in January 2014 at the request of the gov’t. Results from the analytical work will be presented to frame a discussion of the country’s trade strategy.

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DIME portfolio in AFR by status

DIME workshops in AFR

Title Program Date # of Teams # of Participants

Innovating in Design: Evidence for Impact in Health HD Dec ‘12 20 135

Impact Opportunities: Evidence and Action to Save Lives in Nigeria HD May ‘13 8 115

ieGovern: Designing IEs for Public Sector & Justice Reforms PREM Jun ‘13 12 78

Quality education, skills and productivity among youth in Africa HD Sep ‘13 22 190

Improving life in Senegal: Investing in Health HD Oct ‘13 7 105

DIME IS CONDUCTING MORE THAN 60 IMPACT

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EXAMPLES OF DIME IMPACT EVALUATIONS IN AFR’S

STRATEGIC PILLARS AND FOUNDATION

Local Community Engagement

Commitment Savings

How can we help farmers manage their money during overlapping agricultural seasons, decrease reliance on credit, and increase input usage to transition from subsistence to commercialized agriculture?

Rwanda LHW Project

Business to Business Networking Marketplace

Efficiency of Justice

Performance Management

Inspections

Do reminders to judges and court staff improve the efficiency and transparency of the court decision process?

Senegal Speed of Justice Project

How can we best engage local populations in the maintenance of public spaces to improve returns and sustainability of infrastructure investments?

Senegal Stormwater Management Project

Are incentives for civil servants effective in improving performance?

Sierra Leone Pay and Performance Management Project

What is the impact of inspection regimes in private health facilities on compliance with minimum patient safety standards, quality of health care provided, and price and quantity of health care services?

Kenya Inspections of Private Health Facilities Project

Does giving small businesses a chance to enter the market by creating an online marketplace overcome information asymmetries?

South Africa B2B Networking Marketplace

IN FY14 RESEARCH SUPPORT CONTINUES FOR EXISTING

PROJECTS AND IS RAMPING UP ON NEWER PROJECTS

• 138 staff weeks provided through November 2013

• Continued support to projects from FY13, including: • Enhancing Competitiveness in Zimbabwe

• Ethiopia Economic Policy and Dialogue

• Demand for Good Governance Agenda

• Nigeria Growth and Employment

• Support to newer projects in FY14, including:

Project Description

Agriculture in Africa: Myths and Facts

Foster evidence-based agricultural policy making by providing policy makers with a solid, updated, bottom-up picture of Africa’s agriculture at the dawn of the 21st century.

Ethiopia Sustainability of Growth Model

Analyzes the sustainability of the Ethiopian growth model in terms of macroeconomic vulnerability and prospects for sustained robust growth. DECRG will examine the optimal levels of public and private sector investment relative to overall available capital.

Madagascar Emergency Food Security and Social Protection Project

The lack of results for long-term nutritional outcomes led the government to consider redesigning its community-based nutrition program. DECRG, AFR HNP, and the National Nutrition Office are designing an impact evaluation of a pilot to test alternative variants of service delivery to assess cost effectiveness.

Sharing Prosperity in Nigeria: An Analytical Work Program on Jobs and Social Protection

A multi-year programmatic work program on jobs involving Social Protection, PREM, and DECRG staff. Areas for analysis include an Assessment of Jobs in Nigeria, Household Income Diversification, Characteristics of Wage Work, Sectoral Growth Patterns, etc.

The Economics of Resilience in the Dry Lands of SSA

Uses LSMS-ISA data to quantify and characterize poverty, vulnerability, and resilience in African dryland regions.

QUESTIONS OR IDEAS FOR NEW PROJECTS ON WHICH

THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT AND AFR CAN WORK

TOGETHER?

SEND US AN EMAIL AT RESEARCH@WORLDBANK.ORG OR GET IN TOUCH WITH

OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM (SEE SLIDE 30 FOR A COMPLETE LIST).

APPENDIX: ~COMPLETE LIST OF PROJECTS SUPPORTED IN FY13

~NOTES ON CROSS-SUPPORT DATA

~LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO AFR WITH DECRG CONTRIBUTIONS

~ABOUT THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

LIST OF AFRVP PROJECTS SUPPORTED IN FY13

Title Country/Region DECRG Staff Weeks

Impact Evaluation of Health Result-Based Financing in Benin Benin Damien B. C. M. de Walque 1.1

Burundi Public Expenditure Review Burundi Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst 2.8

Cameroon PBF Impact Evaluation Cameroon Damien B. C. M. de Walque 1.1

Central African Republic Impact Evaluation of Result-Based Financing in the Health Sector

Central African Republic Damien B. C. M. de Walque 0.9

Ethiopia Economic Policy and Dialogue Ethiopia Ha Minh Nguyen 5.0

Ethiopia Economic Policy and Dialogue Ethiopia Maya Eden 3.0

Ethiopia Economic Policy and Dialogue Ethiopia L. Colin Xu 2.0

Ethiopia Economic Policy and Dialogue Ethiopia Kathleen G. Beegle 2.0

Ethiopia Poverty, Gender and Statistics Ethiopia Gbemisola O. Oseni 4.4

Ethiopia Poverty, Gender and Statistics Ethiopia Thomas Pave Sohnesen 0.4

Ethiopia Poverty, Gender and Statistics Ethiopia Kathleen G. Beegle 2.0

Ethiopia Poverty, Gender and Statistics Ethiopia Calogero Carletto 1.1

Ethiopia Poverty, Gender and Statistics Ethiopia Alemayehu A. Ambel 5.8

Ethiopia Health MDG Support Operation Ethiopia Jed Friedman 1.0

Ethiopia Promoting Basic Services Program Phase III Project Ethiopia Alemayehu A. Ambel 2.7

Ethiopia Promoting Basic Services Program Phase III Project Ethiopia Thomas Pave Sohnesen 8.2

Ethiopia Statistics for Results Project: Project Preparation and Supervision

Ethiopia Alemayehu A. Ambel 10.1

Productive Social Safety Net Project Guinea Damien B. C. M. de Walque 2.2

Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) - Kenya Kenya Owen Ozier 0.7

Lesotho HRITF Impact Evaluation Lesotho Owen Ozier 0.5

Lesotho HRITF Impact Evaluation Lesotho Gil Shapira 3.7

Lesotho HRITF Impact Evaluation Lesotho Damien B. C. M. de Walque 2.5

LIST OF AFRVP PROJECTS SUPPORTED IN FY13

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Title Country/Region DECRG Staff Weeks

Liberia - DTIS Update Liberia Chad P. Bown 3.1

Liberia - DTIS Update Liberia Erhan Artuc 5.0

Liberia - DTIS Update Liberia Chad P. Bown 2.9

Liberia HRBF Impact Evaluation Liberia Jishnu Das 1.3

Land Policy and Administration Study Liberia Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst 1.1

MG: Support Health in MultiSector Opns Madagascar Siobhan Murray 0.4

Poverty Gender and Inequality Assessment Madagascar Dominique Van De Walle 1.1

Second Multisectoral STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention project Madagascar Emanuela Galasso 1.8

Malawi DTIS Update Malawi Ana Margarida Fernandes 2.0

Malawi Gender Policy Note Malawi Talip Kilic 2.0

Project to Improve Education Quality in Malawi Malawi Owen Ozier 1.0

Project to Improve Education Quality in Malawi Malawi Owen Ozier 0.4

Project to Improve Education Quality in Malawi Malawi Gil Shapira 0.3

MW-Poverty Policy Notes Malawi Talip Kilic 5.0

Strengthening Safety Nets Systems - MASAF IV Malawi Kathleen G. Beegle 1.4

Strengthening Safety Nets Systems - MASAF IV Malawi Emanuela Galasso 1.8

Impact Analysis of Education Reforms in Mozambique Mozambique Thomas Pave Sohnesen 3.9

AFRCE - Analytical Multi-Country Heng-Fu Zou 2.0

AFRCE - Country Support Multi-Country Stuti Khemani 19.1

AFRCE - Country Support Multi-Country Jishnu Das 0.6

AFRCE - Country Support Multi-Country Quy-Toan Do 12.8

AFRCE-Quality Enhancement Multi-Country Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna 1.0

AFRCE-Quality Enhancement Multi-Country Heng-Fu Zou 1.0

Title Country/Region DECRG Staff Weeks

Regional Gender - Support/Coordination Multi-Country Markus P. Goldstein 2.2

Behavioral Economic for AFR Economists Multi-Country Mary Caperton Means 0.8

Behavioral Economic for AFR Economists Multi-Country Karla Hoff 3.0

Africa Youth Employment Flagship Multi-Country Amparo Palacios-Lopez 0.6

Agriculture in Africa - Myths and Facts Multi-Country Amparo Palacios-Lopez 3.8

Agriculture in Africa - Myths and Facts Multi-Country Siobhan Murray 5.0

Service Delivery Indicators Program Multi-Country Owen Ozier 0.6

Service Delivery Indicators Program Multi-Country Alemayehu A. Ambel 4.5

Determinants of AFR's Recent Econ Growth Multi-Country Amparo Palacios-Lopez 5.4

Determinants of AFR's Recent Econ Growth Multi-Country Talip Kilic 1.0

3A-Secondary Edu & Training Study FY08-09 Multi-Country Owen Ozier 4.0

Africa ECD Regional Programme Multi-Country Berk Ozler 0.3

HSS - Strengthening Health Systems in African Countries to Accelerate Progress Towards the MDGs

Multi-Country Caglar Ozden 2.0

Secondary Education in Africa II (SEIA II) and Out of School Youth Multi-Country Owen Ozier 0.2

NIGER - Policy Notes on Growth and Poverty Niger Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna 3.0

NE-Economic & Poverty Monitoring Niger Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna 9.5

Second Shared Growth Credit Niger Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna 6.4

Nigeria - Gender Support Nigeria Gbemisola O. Oseni 3.4

NG - Transforming Nigeria into an African Lion Nigeria Gbemisola O. Oseni 7.3

NG - Transforming Nigeria into an African Lion Nigeria Kathleen G. Beegle 4.8

Nigeria: Impact Evaluation - Rural Access and Mobility Nigeria Paulo S. R. Bastos 0.9

Nigeria - Growth & Employment Nigeria David J. McKenzie 6.0

Nigeria Agriculture Sector Development Policy Operation Nigeria Gbemisola O. Oseni 0.2

Nigeria: ICT for Social Accountability Nigeria Gbemisola O. Oseni 1.2

LIST OF AFRVP PROJECTS SUPPORTED IN FY13

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LIST OF AFRVP PROJECTS SUPPORTED IN FY13

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Title Country/Region DECRG Staff Weeks State Employment and Expenditure for Results Project Nigeria Kathleen G. Beegle 0.2 NG- Spatial Analysis (FY13) Nigeria Siobhan Murray 0.4 Rwanda Health system strengthening - HRBF pilot activities impact evaluation

Rwanda Gil Shapira 7.2

Sao Tome and Principe Poverty Assessment Sao Tome and Principe Raka Banerjee 0.1 SN- Poverty and Gender Report Senegal Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna 0.5 SN- Poverty and Gender Report Senegal Hai-Anh H. Dang 2.0

Somalia Knowledge for Operations and Political Economy Program Somalia Kristen Himelein 2.4

Somalia Knowledge for Operations and Political Economy Program Somalia Diane E. Steele 1.7

Economics of South African Townships South Africa Dorothe Singer 3.0 Evaluating the use of Entertainment Education to Improve Financial Capability in South Africa

South Africa Bilal Husnain Zia 2.1

Support for Financial Sector Policy and Strategy South Africa Leora Klapper 2.0 Support for Financial Sector Policy and Strategy South Africa Bilal Husnain Zia 2.0 Economic Diversification and Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises Development

South Africa Paulo S. R. Bastos 6.7

SOUTH SUDAN POVERTY ASSESSMENT South Sudan Kristen Himelein 0.5 A Review of Land Policy and Administration for Improved Land Governance

South Sudan Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst 0.7

A Review of Land Administration in Sudan Sudan Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst 1.5

Tanzania - Accelerated Food Security Project Tanzania Xavier Gine 2.5 Impact Evaluation on PSD Interventions Togo Sergiy Radyakin 2.0 UG-Tourism For Growth Study Uganda Kirk E. Hamilton 2.4 Support to Firm Data Generation Project Uganda Brian Blankespoor 1.0 Zambia HRBF Impact Evaluation Zambia Jed Friedman 5.0

Zimbabwe - Competitiveness and Trade Zimbabwe Martha D. Pierola Castro 11.6

Additional Financing Health Sector Development Support Project Zimbabwe Jed Friedman 5.0

NOTES ON CROSS-SUPPORT DATA

• Cross-support numbers cited in this report are based on all charges from July 2012 through November 2013 by DECRG staff and extended term consultants to project codes and internal orders managed by the Africa region.

• Cross-support numbers reported on Slide 3 do not include any charges to DEC-managed trust funds, IFC departments, or anchor departments. However, such cross-support – where relevant to the Africa region – is mentioned on later slides.

• To avoid double counting, weeks that were charged to Results-Based Financing projects are counted only towards Results-Based Financing and not to the individual countries where these projects are taking place.

• Cross-support charges are attributed to units based on the Responsible Unit field in Operations Portal (not the Requesting Unit field).

• A number of staff provide support to the region through time-sharing arrangements, and time spent under these arrangements is not included in the aggregate cross-support numbers reported on Slide 3:

Name Arrangement Deon Filmer, Lead Economist, Human Development Team DAIS (FY13); 50/50 time-sharing arrangement (FY14) Markus Goldstein, Lead Economist, Poverty and Inequality Team 50/50 time-sharing arrangement (FY13 and FY14) Kathleen Beegle, Lead Economist, Poverty and Inequality Team DAIS (FY14)

Note: This list reflects publications released between July 1, 2012 and November 30, 2013 with at least one DECRG staff member listed

as an author.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO AFR WITH DECRG

CONTRIBUTIONS

Title Author Country Date

A systemic analysis of land markets and land institutions in West African cities : rules and practices - the case of Bamako, Mali

Durand-Lasserve, Alain ; Durand-Lasserve, Maylis ; Selod, Harris

Mali NOV 01, 2013

Decentralized beneficiary targeting in large-scale development programs : insights from the Malawi farm input subsidy program

Kilic, Talip ; Whitney, Edward ; Winters, Paul Malawi NOV 01, 2013

Are poor slum-dwellers willing to pay for formal land title? : evidence from Dar es Salaam

Ali, Daniel Ayalew ; Collin, Matthew ; Deininger, Klaus ; Dercon, Stefan ; Sandefur, Justin ; Zeitlin, Andrew

Tanzania OCT 01, 2013

Banking in Africa Beck, Thorsten ; Cull, Robert Africa OCT 01, 2013

Civil conflict and firm performance : evidence from Cote d'Ivoire

Klapper, Leora ; Richmond, Christine ; Tran, Trang Cote d'Ivoire

OCT 01, 2013

Up in smoke ? agricultural commercialization, rising food prices and stunting in Malawi

Wood, Benjamin ; Nelson, Carl ; Kilic, Talip ; Murray, Siobhan

Malawi OCT 01, 2013

A conceptual model of incomplete markets and the consequences for technology adoption policies in Ethiopia

Larson, Donald F. ; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu Africa, Ethiopia

OCT 01, 2013

Addressing household air pollution : a case study in rural Madagascar

Dasgupta, Susmita ; Martin, Paul ; Samad, Hussain A. Madagascar SEP 01, 2013

Improving access to banking : evidence from Kenya Allen, Franklin ; Carletti, Elena ; Cull, Robert ; Qian, Jun ; Senbet, Lemma ; Valenzuela, Patricio

Kenya SEP 01, 2013

Resolving the African financial development gap : cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin ; Carletti, Elena ; Cull, Robert ; Qian, Jun ; Senbet, Lemma ; Valenzuela, Patricio

Kenya SEP 01, 2013

The use of random geographic cluster sampling to survey pastoralists

Himelein, Kristen ; Eckman, Stephanie ; Murray, Siobhan Africa, Ethiopia

SEP 01, 2013

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO AFR WITH DECRG

CONTRIBUTIONS (CONTINUED…)

Title Author Country Date

Analysis of public expenditure in agriculture workshop for sharing national experiences

Gill, Indermit ; Raiser, Martin ; Li, Yue ; Zalduendo, Juan ; Dall'Olio, Andrea ; Veugelers, Reinhilde ; Packard, Truman ; Koettl, Johannes ; Richter, Kaspar ; Korczyc, Ewa ; Walsh, Paul ; Quillin, Bryce ; Deichmann, Uwe ; Sugawara, Naotaka ; Iwulska, Aleksandra

Tanzania JUN 14, 2013

Missing(ness) in action : selectivity bias in GPS-based land area measurements

Zezza, Alberto ; Kilic, Talip ; Savastano, Sara ; Carletto, Calogero

Tanzania, Uganda

JUN 01, 2013

Should Zambia produce biodiesel from soybeans ? some insights from an empirical analysis

Drabik, Dusan ; Timilsina, Govinda R. ; de Gorter, Harry Zambia JUN 01, 2013

Are biofuels economically competitive with their petroleum counterparts ?production cost analysis for Zambia

Sinkala, Thomson ; Timilsina, Govinda R. ; Ekanayake, Indira J. Zambia JUN 01, 2013

Macroeconomic and distributional impacts of jatropha-based biodiesel in Mali

Boccanfuso, Dorothee ; Timilsina, Govinda R. ; Savard, Luc ; Coulibaly, Massa

Mali JUN 01, 2013

Enterprising women : expanding economic opportunities in Africa

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Africa JUN 01, 2013

Caught in a productivity trap: a distributional perspective on gender differences in Malawian agriculture

Palacios-Lopez, Amparo ; Kilic, Talip ; Goldstein, Markus Malawi MAR 01, 2013

Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda

de Walque, Damien ; Binagwaho, Agnes ; Condo, Jeanine ; Kwan, Ada ; Gertler, Paul J ; Vermeersch, Christel ; Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio ; de Dieu Bizimana, Jean

Rwanda FEB 01, 2013

What does variation in survey design reveal about the nature of measurement errors in household consumption ? : What does variation in survey design reveal about the nature of measurement errors in household consumption ?

Gibson, John ; Beegle, Kathleen ; De Weerdt, Joachim ; Friedman, Jed

Tanzania FEB 01, 2013

Cash transfers and child schooling : evidence from a randomized evaluation of the role of conditionality

Akresh, Richard ; de Walque, Damien ; Kazianga, Harounan Burkina Faso

JAN 01, 2013

The pirates of Somalia : ending the threat, rebuilding a nation Do, Quy-Toan Somalia JAN 01, 2013

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO AFR WITH DECRG

CONTRIBUTIONS (CONTINUED…)

Title Author Country Date

Women and trade in Africa : realizing the potential

Brenton, Paul ; Gamberoni, Elisa ; Sear, Catherine ; Mora, Maria Elena Garcia ; Roshan, Sabrina ; Ndumbe, Louis Njie ; Ityavyar, Susan D. ; Baffes, John ; Maratou-Kolias, Laura ; Coste, Antoine ; Dihel, Nora ; Christian,, Michelle ; Reis, Jose Guilherme ; Bossuroy, Thomas ; Campos, Francisco ; Coville, Aidan ; Goldstein, Markus ; Roberts, Gareth ; Sequeira, Sandra ; Kweka, Josaphat ; Haji, Mahjabeen

Africa JAN 01, 2013

How subjective beliefs about HIV infection affect life-cycle fertility : evidence from rural Malawi

Shapira, Gil Malawi JAN 01, 2013

Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage Xu, L. Colin ; Lin, Justin Yifu ; Harrison, Ann E. Africa JAN 01, 2013

Learning from the experiments that never happened : lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa

Fernandes, Ana M. ; Campos, Francisco ; Coville, Aidan ; McKenzie, David ; Goldstein, Markus

Africa DEC 01, 2012

How land tenure regularization can contribute to agricultural growth in Rwanda

Deininger, Klaus ; Ronchi, Loraine ; Ali, Daniel Ayalew ; Duponchel, Marguerite

Rwanda OCT 02, 2012

Weather and child health in rural Nigeria Rabassa, Mariano ; Skoufias, Emmanuel ; Jacoby, Hanan G. Nigeria OCT 01, 2012

Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing : an application to occupational allocation in Africa

Sarrias, Mauricio ; Falco, Paolo ; Maloney, William F. ; Rijkers, Bob

Africa OCT 01, 2012

Empowering women : legal rights and economic opportunities in Africa

Driemeier, Mary Hallward; Hasan, Tazeen; Africa OCT 01, 2012

Migration and the transition to adulthood in contemporary Malawi

Poulin, Michelle ; Beegle, Kathleen Malawi SEP 01, 2012

Should African rural development strategies depend on smallholder farms ? an exploration of the inverse productivity hypothesis

Otsuka, Keijiro ; Kilic, Talip ; Larson, Donald F. ; Matsumoto, Tomoya

Africa SEP 01, 2012

The Global Findex database : financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ; Klapper, Leora Africa JUL 01, 2012

Agriculture and trade opportunities for Tanzania : past volatility and future climate change

Diffenbaugh, Noah S. ; Martin, William J. ; Ahmed , Syud Amer ; Hertel, Thomas W.

Tanzania JUL 01, 2012

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Asli Demirguc-Kunt

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Rural Development

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and Energy

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Development

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Macroeconomics and

Growth

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Development and Public

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International Integration

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