Responding to Global Public Bads
The World Bank’s efforts to combat avian influenza and help countries to build capacity to prevent and mitigate pandemics offers a useful example in understanding how the agency can contribute to the provision of global public goods. This review aims to inform the provision of these goods by offering lessons from evaluation of the avian influenza experience. The experience also offers an example of the Bank playing a key role in the international response to an unfolding international crisis in a technical area with which it was largely unfamiliar. And provides a case study on how the Bank struggles to work effectively across sectors, both within the institution itself and in the client countries it operates in. The report aims to inform the design of any future avian influenza and zoonotic disease and pandemic preparedness interventions, and also to discuss the wider strategic lessons from the intervention that are relevant to programs responding to emergencies, providing global public goods, or cooperating with external technical agencies. The report also aims to assess the current state of the pandemic preparedness agenda, and to provide guidance on possible ways forward. The report also draws on additional interviews with Bank staff and international agency staff, on World Bank project and program documentation and reports, on the wider literature on avian influenza, and on other documents.
Summary: | The World Bank’s efforts to combat avian
influenza and help countries to build capacity to prevent
and mitigate pandemics offers a useful example in
understanding how the agency can contribute to the provision
of global public goods. This review aims to inform the
provision of these goods by offering lessons from evaluation
of the avian influenza experience. The experience also
offers an example of the Bank playing a key role in the
international response to an unfolding international crisis
in a technical area with which it was largely unfamiliar.
And provides a case study on how the Bank struggles to work
effectively across sectors, both within the institution
itself and in the client countries it operates in. The
report aims to inform the design of any future avian
influenza and zoonotic disease and pandemic preparedness
interventions, and also to discuss the wider strategic
lessons from the intervention that are relevant to programs
responding to emergencies, providing global public goods, or
cooperating with external technical agencies. The report
also aims to assess the current state of the pandemic
preparedness agenda, and to provide guidance on possible
ways forward. The report also draws on additional interviews
with Bank staff and international agency staff, on World
Bank project and program documentation and reports, on the
wider literature on avian influenza, and on other documents. |
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