Rwanda Country Partnership Framework for the Period of FY21-FY26 - Annex 1 Completion and Learning Review - March 20, 2017

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The Completion and Learning Review (CLR) assesses the World Bank Group’s program in Rwanda across FY14–FY20, evaluating implementation and Bank performance under the Country Partnership Strategy. It reviews the CPS’s three-pillar design—private sector job-creating growth, rural development and social protection to improve poor households’ productivity and incomes, and accountable governance through public financial management and decentralization. It documents strategy endorsement and mid-course adjustments, including updates from the 2017 Performance and Learning Review, and links results to key macroeconomic, poverty, energy, nutrition, and sectoral reform priorities.

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Pages37

Reading Time1 h 33 min

Annex 1 Completion and Learning Review

Introduction

Country coverage and time period

CPS pillars, objectives, and indicators

Endorsement, extension, and performance learning review

Focus areas and alignment with EDPRS2

Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP FRAMEWORK FOR RWANDA FY21-FY26 Annexes Annex 2. Completion and Learning Review ..................................................................................................2 Annex 3. Options for Further Integrating Gender into the CPF .................................................................29 Annex 4. Selected Indicators of Bank Portfolio Performance and Management.......................................31 Annex 5. Operations Portfolio (IBRD/IDA and Grants) ...............................................................................32 Annex 6. Statement of IFC’s Held and Disbursed Portfolio ........................................................................33 Annex 7. MIGA’s Portfolio and Pipeline .....................................................................................................34 Annex 8. CPF Consultations Summary........................................................................................................35 Annex 9. Country Portfolio Performance Review recommendations ........................................................36 Annex 1. Completion and Learning Review COUNTRY: The Republic of Rwanda COVERAGE: Country Partnership Strategy FY14-FY20 DATE OF PERFORMANCE AND LEARNING REVIEW: March 20, 2017 INTRODUCTION 1. This Completion and Learning Review (CLR) assesses the World Bank Group’s (WBG) program in Rwanda during FY14-FY20 (see Table 1 for Summary of the Country Partnership Strategy – CPS-SelfEvaluation Matrix). The CPS was built around three pillars: (i) accelerating economic growth that is private sector driven and job creating; (ii) improving the productivity and incomes of the poor through rural development and social protection; and (ii) supporting accountable governance through public financial management and decentralization. It comprised 12 objectives and 34 indicators. It has drawn on discussions with WBG staff members involved in the delivery of projects and investments, ASA and advisory work, and a range of World Bank documents as well as other reports and discussions with Government of Rwanda (GoR) counterparts. These include the Rwanda Country Program Evaluation FY09-FY17 published by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group in June 2018. The CLR covers both program implementation under the CPS and Bank performance. 2. The CPS was endorsed by the Board of Executive Directors in June 2014 and initially covered the period FY14-FY18. The Strategy was approved following more than a decade of sustained high growthat an annual average rate of 8% and increases in the incomes of the poorest in Rwanda. The high growth rate was sustained during the first two years of the CPS but by mid-2016 Rwanda’s growth started to slow as a result of fiscal consolidation, external economic conditions and environmental shocks that affected food production and security. Scaling-up of public investments in 2018 resulted in a pick-up of growth to 8 to 8.5% in 2018 and up from around 6% in 2017. As highlighted in the SCD, poverty rates, which had fallen from 59% in 2001 to 39% in 2014 (based on the national poverty line), stagnated in 2014-17 as a result of droughts, and lower than expected structural transformation and job creating potential of Rwanda’s public investment-led growth model. 3. A Performance and Learning Review (PLR), endorsed by the Board of Executive Directors on March 10, 2017, confirmed the continued relevance of the CPS structure. The PLR enhanced the WBG’s strategic focus on structural reforms in the energy sector, given growing concerns around the fiscal sustainability of electricity subsidies, and set out a multisectoral approach to improving nutrition that included health, education, and social protection to complement the supply-side approach pursued within agriculture projects. The PLR also extended the CPS to FY20. This two-year extension

FAQs

What is the purpose of the Completion and Learning Review for Rwanda?

It assesses the World Bank Group’s program in Rwanda during FY14–FY20, covering both implementation under the Country Partnership Strategy and overall Bank performance.

What were the main pillars of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY14–FY20?

The CPS focused on (i) accelerating private-sector-driven job-creating growth, (ii) improving poor households’ productivity and incomes through rural development and social protection, and (iii) supporting accountable governance via public financial management and decentralization.

How did the 2017 Performance and Learning Review affect the CPS?

It confirmed the strategy’s relevance, strengthened focus on energy sector structural reforms and a multisector nutrition approach, and extended the CPS through FY20 to align with Rwanda’s third development plan and inform future diagnostics.

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