Dear CDD Community of Practice Members,
This month’s newsletter showcases several stories from the field, from the use of community platforms to address malnutrition in Bihar, India to the difficulty of predicting entrepreneurial success in Nigeria. We are particularly pleased to highlight the first co-financing operation of the World Bank with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Uzbekistan. This new operation uses a community driven development approach to improve the quality of basic infrastructure, including schools, roads and internet service.
Over the past month we organized two well-attended learning events – a joint clinic with IEG on approaches for measuring impact of CDD operations and a BBL with GeoAdaptive for using spatial technology to identify economic growth opportunities. Video recordings and materials from the events are now available in our knowledge library.
As always, we are eager to hear from you! Please share any relevant information and materials that you feel would benefit our community and stay in touch.
With best wishes,
Susan, Nik and Ashutosh
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First Co-financing Operation of World Bank with AIIB in Uzbekistan
The Government of Uzbekistan and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) successfully negotiated a loan for the Prosperous Village (Obod Qishloq) project in late October. This follows approval by the World Bank of a $100 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) for the project. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is expected to provide financing to the project through a $82 million loan to the Government of Uzbekistan. The Government plans to implement this new project in tandem with its own nation-wide Obod Qishloq (Prosperous Village) Program, which uses a community driven development approach to improve the quality of basic infrastructure, including schools, roads and internet service, with village residents deciding collectively which priorities will receive funding. This will be the first co-financing operation of the WBG and AIIB in Uzbekistan.
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As climate and disaster threats rise, let’s double down on resilient infrastructure
From tsunamis in Asia and earthquakes in Latin America, to hurricanes in the Caribbean and cyclones in Africa, disasters caused by natural hazards claimed some 1.3 million lives between 1998 and 2017 and wreaked untold havoc on livelihoods and infrastructure worldwide. What’s worse, climate change is making storms, floods, droughts, and heatwaves even more frequent, damaging, and deadly. This blog argues that in an era of worsening climate and disaster risks, countries have no choice but to plan better and invest more in resilient infrastructure – homes, schools, and roads – to sustain economic growth.
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Making infrastructure work for both women and men
Infrastructure is not gender-neutral, and gaps in access to good infrastructure affect women disproportionately. Women need to have a voice in setting priorities in the design and the operation of infrastructure if it is to have the desired development impact. This blog argues that women’s perspectives in the design and management of infrastructure can both enhance service delivery today and contribute to innovation in the future.
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Uzbekistan - Prosperous Villages Project (P168233)
The project was approved on November 14, 2019 for $100 million IDA financing and aims to improve the quality of basic infrastructure and strengthen participatory local governance processes in Selected Qishloqs.
Jamaica - Second Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI II) Project (P166279)
The project was approved on November 14, 2019 for $40 million IBRD financing and aims to enhance access to markets and to climate resilient approaches for targeted beneficiaries.
Honduras - Improving the Livelihoods of Miskito Indigenous Peoples in La Moskitia (P167767)
The project was approved on November 6, 2019 for $2.72 million Trust Fund financing and aims to promote socio-economic productive activities to improve the livelihoods of Miskito indigenous peoples in Selected Territories in Honduras.
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India- Impact Evaluation of JEEViKA Multisectoral Convergence Initiative in Bihar: Engaging women’s groups to improve nutrition - Summary Report
This report presents a summary of impact evaluation of the JEEViKA Multisectoral Convergence Initiative, a pilot that tested the use of the JEEViKA project structure in Bihar to address undernutrition in women and children. Under this pilot, SHG members received messages about mother and child nutrition and various safe water, sanitation, and hygiene practices. The evaluation found that the pilot had small but significant impacts on women’s and children’s reported dietary diversity, but not on anthropometric outcomes for either women or children. The intervention delivered higher exposure to key messages on nutrition through the SHG platform and contributed to improved knowledge about nutrition and improvement of some practices among women covered by the pilot program.
Predicting Entrepreneurial Success is Hard: Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeria
The authors compare the absolute and relative performance of three approaches to predicting outcomes for entrants in a business plan competition in Nigeria: Business plan scores from judges, simple adhoc prediction models used by researchers, and machine learning approaches. The authors find that: i) business plan scores from judges are uncorrelated with business survival, employment, sales, or profits three years later; ii) a few key characteristics of entrepreneurs such as gender, age, ability, and business sector do have some predictive power for future outcomes; iii) modern machine learning methods do not offer noticeable improvements; iv) the overall predictive power of all approaches is very low, highlighting the fundamental difficulty of picking competition winners.
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The Community-Driven Development CoP and GSG connects peers, thought leaders, and practitioners across governments, agencies, and academia, to share ideas and experiences on CDD approaches. This CoP/GSG is facilitated by the Global Programs Unit of the Social Development Global Practice at the World Bank, with inputs from around the world.
To share papers, project news, interesting blogs, or upcoming events on CDD and other relevant themes with the CDD CoP, please email the CDD email or Ashutosh Raina.
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