Publication: Do Health Sector-Wide Approaches Achieve Results?: Emerging Evidence and Lessons from Six Countries
Date
2009
ISSN
Published
2009
Author(s)
Vaillancourt, Denise
Abstract
This technical paper distills the
emerging experience and lessons of Sector-wide Approaches
(SWAps) in the health sector, supported by the World Bank
and other Development Partners (DPs), in six countries:
Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, Malawi and
Tanzania. It draws on the findings of Project Performance
Assessment Reports (PPARs) conducted by the Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG) on health SWAp support operations in
Bangladesh, Ghana and the Kyrgyz Republic, and of
field-based case studies that assessed the Bank's
lending and non-lending support to Health, Population and
Nutrition (HNP) in Malawi and Nepal, where SWAps are more
recent. This paper also incorporates the findings of an
evaluation of Tanzania's health SWAp, commissioned by
the Government of Tanzania, and financed by DPs. The design,
substantiation, and validation of the findings and lessons
of this study have benefited from a review of the SWAp
literature and vetting of preliminary findings and lessons
with SWAp practitioners. This study grew out of the SWAp
portfolio review and the distillation of health SWAp
experience to date, undertaken as input to IEG's recent
evaluation of the World Bank's support to HNP,
improving effectiveness and outcomes for the poor in health,
nutrition and population: an evaluation of World Bank Group
support since 1997. The paucity of health SWAp evaluations
in the literature, the richness and complexity of the
preliminary findings, and the strong demand, inside and
outside of the Bank for more distillation of SWAp experience
and lessons all were justification for the undertaking of a
more in-depth analysis.
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Citation
“Vaillancourt, Denise. 2009. Do Health Sector-Wide Approaches Achieve Results?: Emerging Evidence and Lessons from Six Countries. IEG Working Paper;2009/4. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28064 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”