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It summarizes Board committee feedback on the quality and focus of the evaluation, Management’s agreement with the recommendations, and the need to strengthen staff skills and capacities, expand procurement flexibilities, and create incentives for innovation. The discussion highlights the role of digital technology in pandemic coping, emphasizes risk assessment and mitigation for clients, addresses data reliability gaps, and notes growing DTT financing and proposed diagnostic work.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nMobilizing Technology for Development  \nAn Assessment of World Bank Group Preparedness  \nReport to the Board from the  \nCommittee on Development Effectiveness ∗  \nMeeting of March 10, 2021  \nThe Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) (“the Committee”) met to consider the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation entitled Mobilizing Technology for Development. An Assessment of World Bank Group Preparedness (CODE2021-0005) and the Draft World Bank Management Response (CODE2021-0016) .  \nThe Committee welcomed the timely report and commended IEG for the quality and focus of the evaluation. Members were appreciative of Management’s broad agreement with the evaluation recommendations and its recognition that while it had begun implementing the recommendations, there was scope for enhancing an already substantial effort undertaken by the WBG to improve staff skills and capacities, expand the use of procurement flexibilities and to establish incentive for risk taking and innovation in regard to Disruptive and Transformational Technologies (DTT) . They stressed the crucial role that digital technology has played in helping governments, businesses and people cope with the pandemic and can have in driving growth in the economic recovery. In this regard, members acknowledged the far-reaching and important implications that DTT can have in improving lives, fostering growth and development and in accelerating progress towards reducing poverty, promoting shared prosperity, and achieving the SDGs. Noting that the WBG was a trusted partner and was well positioned to be effective in helping clients integrate innovative solutions to development challenges using transformative technologies, they underscored the importance of assisting client countries in assessing and in mitigating risks associated with these technologies. Management reiterated its agreement with all three recommendations with the caveat that the investment in requisite staff skills needed to be viewed in the context of tradeoffs between competing staffing needs in the context of a flat real budget and that, while procurement flexibility existed in the WBG, clients were often reluctant to avail of that given their internal control environments.  \nMembers agreed with IEG’s assessment that the WBG needed to demonstrate organizational nimbleness to constantly anticipate, innovate, and adapt as part ofits mission to achieve the twin goals and thus urged Management to continue to build partnerships and develop knowledge and skills of staff to equip them to better support client to harness DTT. They noted the linkage with discussions on knowledge management, learning and outcome orientation and the need for stronger collaboration within the WBG, a strengthened incentive system and to create a workplace culture of willingness to adapt to an ever changing working environment, learn from failure and to take informed risks to allow innovation. They stressed the need for IFC to play a larger role, and for the World Bank Group to enhance cross-institutional collaboration.  \nMembers expressed concern about the lack of reliable data on DTT operations and the impact this may have on monitoring these operations or fostering innovation. Management in response highlighted a sharp increase in WBG financing of DTT from US$ 69 million FY19 to a projected US$ 1.5 billion in FY21 and US$ 2 billion in FY22 . Members appreciated the proposed diagnostic work and pipeline of analytical activities and organizational changes to better reflect the role of technology in development. They encouraged Management to speed up implementation where there was capacity to deliver technology deployment and bridge the digital gap within and across countries. 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