WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) — Some of World Bank’s health, nutrition and population programs performed poorly from 1997 through 2007, the institution’s internal watchdog said.
The weak showing of about a third of the programs resulted, in part, from inadequate monitoring and overly complex projects, The Washington Post reported Friday
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group’s report, released Thursday, said the programs were ineffective in areas critical to public health in the developing world. The report said a program designed to combat HIV-AIDS in Africa had only a 25 percent success rate, compared with an 80 percent success rate for World Bank programs overall.
"A third of the projects did not meet their objectives," said Cheryl Gray, the evaluation group’s director. "Over-complexity is a problem, as is the lack of capacity of countries to implement the programs."
Many projects lacked procedures to ensure that the poorest and neediest received assistance while other ventures were poorly implemented, the report said. It singled out a $26.6 million HIV-response project in Ghana that failed to target at-risk populations from 2000 to 2005.
The report also said many programs were extremely successful, including an anti-malaria effort in Eritrea that succeeded in reducing malaria-related deaths by 85 percent.
World Bank officials said they recognized some of their programs have flaws and were working to correct them.
Demonym Eritrean Government Provisional government
- President Isaias Afewerki
Independence
- From Italy November 1941
- From United Kingdom under UN Mandate 1951
- from Ethiopia de facto 24 May 1991
- From Ethiopia de jure 24 May 1993
Area
- Total 117,600 km2 (100th)
45,405 sq mi - Water (%) 0.14%
Population
- 2009 estimate 5,224,000[4] (109th)
- 2008 census 5,291,370
- Density 43.1/km2 (165th)
111.7/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2010 estimate
- Total $3.625 billion[5]
- Per capita $681[5]
GDP (nominal) 2010 estimate
- Total $2.117 billion[5]
- Per capita $397[5]
HDI (2007) steady 0.472 (low) (165th)
Currency Nakfa (ERN)
Time zone EAT (UTC+3)
- Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+3)
Drives on the right
ISO 3166 code ER
Internet TLD .er
Calling code 291
1 ,. National TV: Eritrea Television (ERI-TV)
Eritrea (play /ˌɛrɨˈtreɪ.ə/ or /ˌɛrɨˈtriːə/;[6] Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeast and east of the country has an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands are part of Eritrea. Eritrea's size is approximately 117,600 km2 (45,406 sq mi) with an estimated population of 6 million...
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