What Explains Aid Project Success in Post-Conflict Situations?

What Explains Aid Project Success in Post-Conflict Situations?

This paper investigates the effectiveness of post-conflict aid at the project level and aims to identify post-conflict situations as a window of opportunity for project success. The Independent Evaluation Group dataset provides extensive information on the characteristics of World Bank projects including an independent rating of their success, supervision and evaluation quality. The paper estimates the probability of success of aid projects depending on the characteristics of the intervention and looks for possible special patterns in post civil war situations. The results suggest that the probability of success of World Bank projects increases as peace lasts. Supervision appears to be a crucial determinant of the success of projects, especially during the first years of peace. Although the results of the sector-level analysis need to be taken with caution, the authors find that projects in the transport sector and in the urban development sector appear more successful in post-conflict environments. On the contrary, education projects seem less successful and therefore need to be highly supervised. Projects in the private sector should wait as they face a higher probability of failure in the first years of peace.

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Main Authors: Chauvet, Lisa, Collier, Paul, Duponchel, Marguerite
Language:English
Published: 2010-09-01
Subjects:CITIES, CIVIL WAR, CIVIL WARS, CONFLICT, CONFLICT CHARACTERISTICS, CONFLICT RISKS, CONFLICTS, DEATHS, DEFENCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, DESCRIPTION, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, EXTERNAL SHOCKS, FOREIGN AID, IBRD, INTERNAL CONFLICT, INTERNATIONAL BANK, INTERVENTION, INTERVENTIONS, IRD, PEACE, PEACE RESEARCH, PEACEFUL COUNTRIES, PEACEFUL COUNTRY, POST CONFLICT, POST-CONFLICT, POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES, POST-CONFLICT COUNTRY, POST-CONFLICT ECONOMY, POST-CONFLICT EPISODES, POST-CONFLICT PEACE, POST-CONFLICT PERIOD, POST-CONFLICT SITUATION, POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS, PROJECT EVALUATION, RECONSTRUCTION, REFUGEES, ROADS, RURAL AREAS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN AREAS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, WAR EPISODES, WAR PROJECT, WAR ZONES, WARFARE, WARS,
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20100916083242
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3902
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Summary:This paper investigates the effectiveness of post-conflict aid at the project level and aims to identify post-conflict situations as a window of opportunity for project success. The Independent Evaluation Group dataset provides extensive information on the characteristics of World Bank projects including an independent rating of their success, supervision and evaluation quality. The paper estimates the probability of success of aid projects depending on the characteristics of the intervention and looks for possible special patterns in post civil war situations. The results suggest that the probability of success of World Bank projects increases as peace lasts. Supervision appears to be a crucial determinant of the success of projects, especially during the first years of peace. Although the results of the sector-level analysis need to be taken with caution, the authors find that projects in the transport sector and in the urban development sector appear more successful in post-conflict environments. On the contrary, education projects seem less successful and therefore need to be highly supervised. Projects in the private sector should wait as they face a higher probability of failure in the first years of peace.

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