The World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Public Expenditure Review - 2012

Project Description:

The objective of this Agriculture and Rural Development Public Expenditure Review (PER) was to contribute to the preparation of the proposed poverty reduction and rural development operation in the Central Region through consolidating lessons learned from the recent period Public Expenditure Management (PEM), and making recommendations on how selected provinces and central agencies in charge of the implementation or coordination of related programs can effectively and efficiently use available financial resources for achieving the rural development and poverty reduction goals set out in core strategies/development plans for the forthcoming period. MKE completed the following tasks:

(i) Providing a broad description of the dynamics and patterns of allocations and spending and the overall PEM system in the ARD sector.

(ii) Conducting a broad assessment of allocative efficiency for the sector as the whole and a more in-depth one for the selected provinces.

(iii) Carrying out an in-depth analysis of technical efficiency in the selected provinces and the influencing factors

(iv) Providing an assessment of growth and poverty reduction impacts of selected ARD programs in the region.

(v) Producing a report presenting findings and recommendations of the PEM and its summary to be included in the synthesis report of the above-mentioned series of analytical works.