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2015

The South-South Experience Exchange Facility

Implementation Progress Report

The South-South Experience Exchange FacilityImplementation Progress Report 2015

This report, covering the calendar year ending December 31, 2015, was prepared by Degi Young (Program Manager), Richard Crabbe, Nuria Perez Tello, Rayco Bejarano Garcia, and Latifah Alsegaf.

AcknowledgmentsThe report benefited from guidance and inputs from Abha Joshi-Ghani, Roby Senderowitsch, and Steffen Soulejman Janus. Peer reviewers were Ellen de Vreede, Seth Ayers, Arathi Sundaravadanan, Kimberly Versak, Peter Schierl, Shobha Kumar, and Carlos Sabatino.

Contributions for the results stories were provided by Harriet Nannyonjo, Taoufiq Bennouna, Fanny Weiner, and Quang Hong Doan.

Bruno Bonansea was the cartographer, Sheldon Lippman was the editor, and Susanne Kasielke was the graphic designer.

Questions and comments regarding this report may be emailed to [email protected].

2 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

AFR Sub-Saharan Africa Region

CY Calendar Year

DGEP Dirección General de Empresas Públicas

EAP East Asia and the Pacific Region

ECA Europe and Central Asia Region

LCR Latin America and the Caribbean Region

MNA Middle East and North Africa Region

SAR South Asia Region

South-SouthFacility South-South Experience Exchange Facility

3CONTENTS

CONTENTS

AbbreviationsandAcronyms 2

WelcomeMessage 4

Overview 6

South-SouthFacilityataGlance 7

Map:South-SouthFacilityKnowledgeExchanges 8

I.ImplementationProgress 9A. Overall Grant Status 10B. Approved Grants 10C. Portfolio Status 13D. Contributions 13

II.2016ClientSurvey 14A. Results 16B. Lessons and Client Responses from South-South Exchange 17

III.South-SouthFacilityGrantsinAction 19A. Protecting Morocco’s Coastline 20B. Strengthening Service Delivery by State-Owned Enterprises in Paraguay 22C. Promoting Provincial-led Growth in Vietnam 24D. Developing Education Leaders in Jamaica 26

Annexes 29Annex 1: South-South Facility Grants Approved in 2015 29Annex 2: South-South Facility Grants under Implementation as of December 31, 2015 32Annex 3: South-South Facility Grants Completed in 2015 35Annex 4: Countries Providing and Receiving Knowledge in the South-South Facility 38

4 WELCOME MESSAGE

WelcomeMessage

In 2014, a South-South Facility-funded exchange was arranged between Honduras and Colombia. Honduras recognized an opportunity to learn from Colombia how to mainstream the incorporation of disaster risk information into land use planning at the local level and environmental management at the watershed level. Eighty-seven percent of the ex-change participants reported increased knowledge on specific methodologies of how to incorporate di-saster risk management into their plans. As a result, an action plan was developed.

One year after the exchange, as part of the 2016 South-South Facility survey, one of the participants said, “These exchanges are very important as a mechanism for (1) strengthening institutional capac-ity, (2) creating means for comparing progress in different issues between countries, (3) sharing expe-riences to solve similar problems, and (4) creating strategic alliances.”

In the 2016 South-South Facility Experience Ex-change Facility (South-South Facility) survey, 93 per-cent of participants involved in a South-South knowl-edge exchange indicated that the exchange helped to achieve their stated objectives primarily by finding solutions to their problem. The Honduras-Colombia exchange is just one illustration of the strong links and powerful results of such an exchange funded by the South-South Facility.

Honduras ranks among countries worldwide most affected by climate change and disasters triggered by natural events. Over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 Honduran citizens were killed and more than four million were affected by disasters. The country’s economic damage amounted to US$4.5 billion. The expected average loss from future disasters is almost 30 percent of capital/investment costs. The high vulnerability to natural hazards has hindered efforts by the Government of Honduras to reduce poverty and sustain economic growth

5WELCOME MESSAGE

It is an honor for me to be part of this journey of eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity through knowledge sharing and I would like to ex-press my sincere gratitude to you, our South-South Facility partners, for your continued support in this critical work.

SANJAY PRADHAN Vice President, Leadership, Learning and Innovation

Chairman, South-South Facility Oversight Committee

This 2015 Implementation Progress Report is a testa-ment to the successful performance of the South-South Facility. There has been grant funding awarded to 215 knowledge exchanges, and the 196 com-pleted exchanges have had a tremendous effect on accelerating development processes across a global network created through peer-to-peer learning.

The South-South Facility receives growing requests from World Bank clients for knowledge exchanges. The lessons learned from South-South Facility surveys and bilateral discussions with South-South Facility partners focus on a need to finance an inte-grated knowledge-sharing approach that responds directly to the needs of these clients. This strategic plan may take the form of a longer-term engage-ment or through improving a country’s capacity to share knowledge with other countries. In the fol-lowing year the South-South Experience Exchange Facility is committed to implementing this strategy.

6 OVERVIEW

Overview

ground information on South- South knowledge exchanges as well as a suite of useful tools and resources for enhancing the effectiveness of such exchanges. The online library can be accessed at http://wbi.worldbank.org/sske. Some of the main site features include:

• Results stories that demonstrate ways in which South-South knowledge exchanges have built local capacity;

• Examples of successful South-South knowledge exchange financing approaches;

• “The Art of Knowledge Exchange”, a planning guide that helps development practitioners and government officials design results-oriented knowledge exchanges;

• An interactive map that shows results stories by country; and

• A media library that shares images, audio, and video associated with successful knowledge exchanges.

The locations of South-South knowledge exchanges are pinpointed on the map on page 8.

Launched in October 2008 as a multi-donor trust fund, the South-South Experience Exchange Facility (South-South Facility) enables sharing development experiences and knowledge among World Bank cli-ent countries by funding knowledge exchange activi-ties. The South-South Facility funds such knowledge exchanges based on demand expressed by the knowledge-recipient countries and designed with a focus on achieving results.

The South-South Facility comprises a diverse mix of partners. The six original partners are China, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. India, Russia, and Colombia joined in 2010. Indonesia joined in 2013. Six are middle income countries (China, Colombia, India, Indone-sia, Mexico, and Russia). Membership contributions pledged and received to date total US$14.3million, of which US$13.1 million has been allocated (includ-ing administrative costs).

The South-South Facility results are captured in the interactive South-South Knowledge Exchange Library. The Web-based Library provides back-

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of the respondents in 2016 client survey indicated an increase in their capacity to

find solutions to their development challenges

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KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES have been completed to date

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South-South Facility at a Glance

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES have been approved

countries have RECEIVED knowledge

SOUTH-SOUTH FACILITY

RESULTS STORIES are posted on the interactive online

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of the respondents in 2016 client survey,

indicated that South-South knowledge exchanges

have helped achieve their stated objectives

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3 COUNTRIES JOINED AS KNOWLEDGE PROVIDERS

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Jordan Paraguay Trinidad & Tobago

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69 KNOWLEDGE-RECEIVING countries are also KNOWLEDGE-PROVIDING countries.

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3 COUNTRIES JOINED AS KNOWLEDGE RECEIVERS

Lebanon Tonga West Bank & Gaza

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I. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS

10 I. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS

B. APPROVED GRANTS

As of the end of 2015, the accumulated approved grants dispensed for South-South knowledge exchanges totaled US$12.0 million. Lower-income countries account for a significantly larger amount of grants approved due to the South-South Facility’s focus on lower-income countries during the first three years of its operations. Since the introduction of middle-income countries, the share for lower-income country grants has remained fairly consistent at approximately 70 percent; however, in 2014 it dropped to 59 percent. In 2015, the share for lower-income country grant approvals rose again to 74 percent (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Comparison of grant approvals by coun-try income levels, CY2008-2015 (US$ millions)

A. OVERALL GRANT STATUS

South-South knowledge exchanges are increasingly being used to support the development goals of the World Bank’s lending portfolio. In 2009, only 30 percent of grants approved were associated with World Bank lending projects. In 2015, 72 percent of the grants approved were associated with World Bank lending projects.

Since its inception, the South-South Facility has approved 215 grants of which 196 are completed (Figure 1). There is growing demand for knowledge exchanges; however, due to financial restraints, only 22 grants were approved during 2015 (Annex 1), this number represents 73 percent of the proposals received. At the end of 2015, 19 grants were under implementation. The majority of grants that are under implementation are in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (Annex 2).

Thirty-five grants were completed in 2015, one less than the number completed in 2014 (Annex 3). The high completion rate is a reflection of the prompt completion of knowledge exchanges within the year.

Figure 1: Number of grants approved, active, and closed by calendar year

Over the past eight years the Sub-Saharan Africa Region (AFR) has had the largest share of total approved South-South Facility grants. This changed in 2015. Both Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR) have an equally large share (23 percent). Over the past two years (2014-2015), the approved grants in Latin America and the Caribbean have doubled compared to those of any other Region and account for 44 percent

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of the grants approved in Latin America and the Caribbean Region since inception. The Middle East and North Africa Region (MNA) has also shown an increase over the past two years in the number of grants approved. The last two years account for 52 percent of the grants approved in Middle East and North Africa Region since inception. In 2015, the Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa Regions had the same percentage of grants approved (Figure 3).

Figure 3: Percentage of approved grants by Region

Figure 4: Percentage of regions receiving knowledge from other regions (CY2008-2015)

Inner circle shows totals for CY2008-2015 and outer circle shows totals for CY2015

Note: Percentage of number of exchanges approved within each Region

One of the advantages of the South-South Facility is that it provides an opportunity for countries to find global solutions to their development challenges. Fifty-four percent of the approved grants repre-sent cross-regional knowledge exchanges. Seventy percent of the knowledge sought by East Asia and the Pacific Region (EAP) is from other Regions. Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and the Pacific Regions are top receivers of knowledge (24 percent each) from other Regions (Figure 4).

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Figure 5: Percentage of regions providing knowledge to other regions (CY2008-2015)

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Table 2: Top 10 countries providing knowledge in South-South Facility exchanges

The top nine sectors with more knowledge exchang-es have stayed the same in 2014 and 2015. However the distribution within the sectors varied slightly. In 2015, the health, nutrition and population sector increased by one percent, and the water sector decreased by one percent (Table 3).

Table 3: Sectoral focus of approved knowledge exchanges (Cumulative CY2008-2015)

Vietnam and India continue to be the participating countries that most request knowledge through the South-South Facility. However, in 2015, two lower- income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their interest in seeking knowledge from others. Honduras and Nicaragua have moved up from the sixth and ninth position to the shared third position also with Tanzania (Table 1).

Table 1: Top 10 countries receiving knowledge in South-South Facility exchanges

Five of the top 10 knowledge-providing countries within the South-South Facility are within the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Brazil contin-ues to be the highest knowledge provider. There was, however, a change in 2015. Colombia moved from the fourth highest knowledge provider to the third, a reflection of the growing interest in learning from Colombia (Table 2). In the East Asia and Pacific Region, China is the highest knowledge provider followed by Indonesia. India has the largest com-bined number of exchanges. It is the second largest knowledge recipient and the second largest knowl-edge provider.


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Number of exchanges(CY2008-2015)

Vietnam 15

India 12

Honduras 10

Nicaragua 10

Tanzania 10

Bolivia 9

Ghana 9

Nigeria 9

Tajikistan 9

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Brazil 36

India 25

Colombia 20

Chile 18

China 17

South Africa 13

Mexico 12

Indonesia 11

Peru 11

Philippines 11

Sectoral topics of exchange Percentage

Governance and Public Sector Management 16

Financial and Private Sector Development 9

Agriculture and Rural Development 7

Health, Nutrition and Population 7

Urban Development 6

Education 6

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D. CONTRIBUTIONS

As of the end of 2015, the total South-South Facility contributions stands at US$14.3 million. Since 2012, all new contributions have come from middle-income countries (China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Russia). Middle-income countries have contributed 49 percent of the South-South Facility’s total contributions.

Figure 7: Yearly partners’ contribution to the South-South Facility (US$ million)

C. PORTFOLIO STATUS

The percentage of grants disbursed for middle-income countries increased in 2015. In 2014 the percentage disbursed by middle-income countries represented 25 percent of the total while in 2015 it represented 40 percent. The disbursement amount dropped in 2015 (Figure 6); however, overall 94 per cent of the total allocated grant amount has disbursed signifying utilization of the funds to support just-in-time knowledge sharing.

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II. 2016 CLIENT SURVEY

The value of meeting people from various parts of the world who practically have the same problem but through South-South got opportunity to find a way to solve that problem.

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange on Energy Efficiency Measures in Public Buildings, between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia

It was successful in the sense that the key officials at the local level are in sync now to deliver key reform strategies that the central Government of Bhutan has initiated in a more collaborative and coordinated manner.

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange Bhutan: Capacity Building in Municipal Finance

South-South Knowledge Exchange will be very helpful if it can be done before starting any project.

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange Lessons from Indonesia for Lao PDR on Implementing Community-Based Nutrition Interventions

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These exchanges are very important as a mechanism for (1) strengthening institutional capacity, (2) creating means for comparing progress in different issues between countries, (3) sharing experiences to solve similar problems, and (4) creating strategic alliances.

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange on Incorporation of Disaster Risk Management in Territorial Planning in Latin American and the Caribbean Region

I can testify on the benefit of this exchange for our project. A number of innovative actions were done based on this exchange.

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange on Strengthening Quality of Services by Community Nutrition Workers in Madagascar

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The challenge faced by most clients is how to translate the concepts that they have observed in an exchange into actionable solutions in their home country. Eighty-four percent of the respondents in-dicated an increase in their capacity to find solutions to their development challenges, or new implemen-tation know-how (Figure 8). This was done primarily by customizing an approach to their problem and de-veloping an action plan. Eighty-four percent in 2016 represents a marked increase from 2015 where only approximately two-thirds of the respondents speci-fied an increase in their capacity to find solutions.

In December 2015, the World Bank surveyed 174 stakeholders and participants of World Bank client countries involved in 34 knowledge exchanges that were funded by the South-South Facility and completed in 2014. The survey had an 82 percent response rate among clients with 28 out of 34 exchanges responding across diverse sectors and regions. The survey was instrumental in capturing client feedback on results and lessons of South-South knowledge exchanges.

A. RESULTS

Ninety-three percent of clients involved in the knowledge exchange indicated that the South-South knowledge exchange helped them to achieve their development objectives.1 The sustained high-level response to this question in both 2015 and 2016 reaffirms the overall value of the knowledge exchanges for the clients.

In general, the outcome of South-South knowledge exchanges is that it exposes countries to different approaches to tackling a problem. When asked to explain the factors that helped to achieve their objectives, 94 percent of the respondents to the 2016 survey indicated that the knowledge exchange was instrumental in raising their awareness of what is possible and improving their understanding of how to solve a problem (Figure 8).2

1 Based on response to Question 2 of Client Survey: “Did this South-South Knowledge Exchange help you (or your organization) achieve the objective(s)?”

2 Based on response to Question 3 of Client Survey: “How did this South-South Knowledge Exchange help you (or your organization) achieve the objective(s)?”

Figure 8: Comparison of client perceptions on how South-South knowledge exchange helps to achieve objectives

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“It was an excellent opportunity to explore new knowledge, technologies, and material, sharing options from Brazil as South-South representative country.”

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange Reshaping Pakistan’s Agricultural Innovation System: Learning from the experience of EMBRAPA, Brazil

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B. LESSONS AND CLIENT RESPONSES FROM SOUTH-SOUTH EXCHANGE

The 2016 survey highlighted several lessons drawn from South-South knowledge exchanges.

“Follow-up on the South-South knowledge exchanges is critical”

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange Building skills for preparing and

introducing e-Procurement in Tajikistan

The above quote was a common sentiment among many participants. Suggesting ways to follow-up were varied. In some cases, the emphasis was on measuring the impact of the original exchange; in other cases, having more sessions with the partici-pants (virtually or face to face) for a certain period of time was considered important.

A small percentage indicated that they were not sure if the knowledge exchange met the stated objectives; however, they all felt that the knowledge exchange was helpful to them. They saw the value of the knowledge exchange as a way to raise aware-ness, network with other practitioners, and find solutions to their development challenges.

“Currently, we continue to follow the action plan that we had developed after our exchange visit in Bangladesh. The plan had three stages with short term, medium, and long term. We are applying the me-dium term now.”

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange Strengthening Quality of Services by Community Nutrition Workers in Madagascar

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Overall the lessons learned from the 2016 survey are similar to those gathered in the 2015 survey. All comments as well as the experience gained over the years of the South-South Facility have been taken into account to design a new strategy for the South-South Facility. This proposed strategy aims to address the concerns voiced by the participants and organizers of the exchanges by:

• Introducing programmatic knowledge sharing that will enable multiple countries to participate in multiple exchanges over a period of time;

• Utilizing facilitators that will ensure appropri-ate design, implementation, and monitoring of knowledge exchanges; and

• Providing tools and services to ensure that institutions are well prepared to share their knowledge to other countries.

Participants were also keen on obtaining in-depth learning for themselves and, as such, expressed the need to have internships or some form of appren-ticeship.

Another common thread among comments related to the design of the knowledge exchange. In some cases the participants felt that the right mix of people had not been assembled for the exchange or that the sessions did not go into much depth or that the agencies providing the knowledge were not fully prepared.

II. 2016 CLIENT SURVEY

“These exchanges should be seen as a process rather than as isolated events.”

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange on Implementing Multidimensional Measures of Wellbeing (Bolivia, Ecuador, Bhutan, Mexico)

“Follow-up actions should be monitored and those agencies which implement the lessons learnt from such exchanges should be en-couraged by facilitating further exchanges, not just South-South but also South-North so that different but useful knowledge can be acquired and implemented to benefit the developing agencies.”

Participant from the Knowledge Exchange Bhutan: Capacity Building in Municipal Finance

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tions and good practice approaches in promoting integrated management. The knowledge exchange was planned as a study tour in the states of Odisha and Gujarat in India, which had successfully dealt with similar challenges.

What has happened so far?

In November 2014, ten high-level government representatives and decision-makers from Morocco’s Ministries of Environment and Tourism visited key coastal project sites in India. They discussed with Indian policymakers and project beneficiaries the experiences gained through implementation of India’s coastal management project, and shared ideas for creating jobs. The Moroccans gained understanding of innovative practices for addressing protecting natural resources and ecosystems and how to drive a multisectorial approach for integrated participation. They also picked up ideas to encour-age job creation by supporting entrepreneurs and small and medium-size enterprises.

What was the objective of the exchange?

Morocco’s diverse coastline is an environmental amalgamation of land, fresh and brackish waters, and marine life. Each of these domains is managed by a different entity. Protecting the coastline as well as developing its natural resources requires all concerned ministries and agencies to plan and inte-grate their annual work programs. Officials involved in Morocco’s coastal zone management project recognized the need to learn more about innova-

Recipient country: Morocco

Knowledge-providing country: India

South-South Facility funding: US$43,772

Sector: Sustainable Development

Task team leader: Taoufiq Bennouna

A. Protecting Morocco’s Coastline


“The exchange of experience with India allowed the Moroccan delegation to acquire a broader vision than that of the Mediterranean. Without this experience, the vision of the Moroccan delegation on coastal zone management would have remained limited, with only a regional perspective.”

−MME.BOUCHRAOUJIDI,Project Management Unit, Morocco Integrated

Coastal Zone Management Project

What results have been achieved?

Upon their return home, study tour participants prepared a follow-up action plan with input from the local beneficiaries and experts. The exchange has enhanced cross-sector coordination among the Ministries of Environment and Tourism along with the stakeholders of coastal natural resources. Working together, these groups are currently playing a key integrated role in designing a World Bank- funded operation that will scale up the project activities to cover the entire length of Morocco’s coastline.

The exchange continues to elicit strong support from stakeholders in Morocco’s integrated coastal management project:

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countries how to implement the plan in a way that supports organizations to provide efficient services. In addition, DGEP officials needed ideas to equip them to prepare a corporate governance framework that would guide their monitoring and general over-sight functions.

The proposed exchange was therefore structured to enhance the knowledge and skills of decision-mak-ers and technical staff in Paraguay to enable them to develop an effective oversight system for state-owned enterprises. Chile and Peru, two neighbors that have outperformed Paraguay in the service-providing sector, were found to be the right fit as knowledge providers.


Through a series of meetings and workshops, the Paraguayan delegation learned about good practice approaches in oversight and corporate governance of state-owned enterprises. The Paraguayans noted that the legal framework of Chile’s Sistema de


Over the past decade, even while coverage of basic services has generally improved significantly in Paraguay, the country has lagged behind in some areas when compared with its regional peers. The General Directorate for Public Enterprises, Dirección General de Empresas Públicas (DGEP), was estab-lished to provide technical support for oversight of state-owned enterprises that provide basic services. After finalizing its Action Plan for 2014/15, DGEP expressed strong interest in learning from other

Recipient country: Paraguay

Knowledge-providing country: Chile and Peru


Sector: Public Sector Governance

Task team leader: Fanny Weiner

B. Strengthening Service Delivery by State-Owned Enterprises in Paraguay


nies of Paraguay. Without this exchange, our views when analyzing the political options would have been fewer and would have only included the ones learnt in courses, seminars, and conferences unlike the broader and more pragmatic vision that we got by learning on-site from [the] experiences of other countries of the region.”

−ELVIOBRIZUELA, Director of the State-Owned Enterprise Oversight Unit


The Paraguayans have applied lessons from the two study tours to update the organization’s Action Plan. They have also provided input toward developing a Corporate Governance Framework for monitoring and oversight of small- and medium-scale enterpris-es. Based on the learning experience, the govern-ment is currently revising the Public Procurement Law to include a specific section for state-owned enterprises.

Empresas Públicas (State-Owned Enterprises Sys-tem) and the transparency law that it was develop-ing were highly relevant to their own context. They found particularly inspiring the organizational model of Peru’s Fondo Nacional de Financiamiento de la Actividad Empresarial del Estado (National Fund for Financing State Business Activity) and its experi-ence in implementing reforms. The exchange cre-ated momentum for change among the delegates and inspired motivation for their reform process; the exposure to other experiences served as “self-benchmarking” for them.

“The exchange helped to identify possible conflicts and issues that we may find when implementing [a particular] model of corporate governance of our enterprises. It also helped us to know alternatives in the adoption of a decentralized model of corpo-rate governance. This plays an essential part in the plan to improve efficiency of the public companies and when done, it will improve the corporate gov-ernance model that will be set in the public compa-


Recipient country: Vietnam

Knowledge-providing country: India


Sector: Energy and Mining; Financial and Private Sector Development

Task team leader: Quang Hong Doan

C. Promoting Provincial-led Growth in Vietnam


In order to fully take advantage of the operation of a new petrochemical complex and related industries, leaders and officials of Thanh Hoa Province, Viet-nam, needed policies to address creating and main-taining a conducive investment climate and to at-tract required private investment. Thanh Hoa officials had a strong desire to learn what other developing countries or subnational governments have under-taken in a similar situation. The proposed exchange therefore aimed to enhance the capacity of Thanh Hoa policymakers to develop feasible action plans. The preferred option for the exchange was a study tour to India’s Gujarat State, home of the largest refinery and petrochemicals complex ever built.



Thanh Hoa Province applied the experience and knowledge from the tour to revise the master plan for the expanded Nghi Son Economic Zone (from 18,000 hectares to 106,000 hectares), which received government approval in June 2015. The province then successfully brought on board the private sec-tor to develop a new industrial zone, and a seaport was constructed in September 2015.


A delegation of Thanh Hoa officials held discus-sions with the Federal Ministries of Finance, Industry and Mining, and Transport and Sea Port; Gujarat’s Chamber of Industry; State Ministry of Energy and Petro-chemistry; Industry University; and the Reli-ance Petro-chemical Complex. In meetings with In-dian businesses in Gujarat State and New Delhi, the Vietnamese delegation learned about policy mecha-nisms to support overseas investment by enter-prises. They also met with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry to explore the potential for linkages between Indian enterprises and Thanh Hoa in information technology, agricul-tural machinery, and chemical and pharmaceutical production using products of oil refinery.



In an effort to increase the capacity of its education leaders, the Government of Jamaica sought means to strengthen mechanisms for developing stronger leadership and system accountability. The Jamaican Government had been instrumental in implement-ing reforms to improve learning achievement for all school-age children in the island nation. But this challenge had been exacerbated by the absence of a strategic plan that addresses the issue. Jamaica expressed interest in learning from Malaysia’s experi-ence, specifically how to design and implement competency-based leadership development to increase the effectiveness of education system lead-ers in delivering education services. The exchange would enable the Jamaicans to examine existing strategies, programs, and initiatives with a view toward designing contextually relevant responses to support education transformation in Jamaica.

Recipient country: Jamaica

Knowledge-providing country: Malaysia


Sector: Education

Task team leader: Harriet Nannyonjo

D. Developing Education Leaders in Jamaica



The Jamaican team who participated in the tour has led the preparation of a national strategy to develop leadership of under-enrolled or multi-grade schools. There is increased institutional collaboration in tack-ling the challenge and working together on solutions for developing education leadership at all levels of service delivery.

A national workshop has been held to share lessons learned from the exchange with Malaysia. It brought together over 200 participants, including school principals and Ministry of Education officials. The gathering also discussed ideas regarding education leadership development that could be incorporated into implementation of Jamaica’s Education Sector Transformation Program.


Malaysia was chosen as a knowledge provider because, like Jamaica, it is a developing country and has a similar education structure and decentral-ized education system to promote school-based management. A study tour to Malaysia enabled Jamaican officials to gain insight into how Malaysia structures and implements capacity building of its education leaders. Participants learned new strate-gies and good practice approaches that will aid in improving student performance outcomes and rais-ing the standard of leadership in Jamaica’s schools. The delegation returned to Jamaica with enhanced knowledge supported by solid working examples; and confidence and motivation to contribute to re-forming how the country trains, mentors, and holds its education leadership accountable.


What was the situation prior to the exchange?

Overall, we at the National College for Educational Leadership needed to focus on improving leader-ship at various levels. First, we had an unstructured approach to professional development of teachers and education leaders; and second, we needed to rationalize its teacher training institutions. Despite knowing that many of the issues were negatively impacting teacher education programs, no strategic plan existed for addressing them. Third, we recog-nized its need to improve oversight. The pastoral care leader’s role as a part of the mid-level leader-ship team in secondary schools had low visibility. Consequently, there was variation in practice within and across schools.

What were the results from the exchange?

Face-to-face conversations in Malaysia with scholars and practitioners who had published papers on sys-tems, school, and distributive leadership validated the need for Jamaica to raise the visibility of pastoral care leaders in the school system. The Jamaican team that visited Malaysia also experienced firsthand a training program for mid-level leaders, including pastoral care. The Jamaican team gained insights on changes that could be made to improve teacher ed-ucation in Jamaica and returned home with a sense of urgency in addressing teacher education matters among policy-makers and other stakeholders. Fol-lowing the exchange with Malaysian counterparts, we prepared a proposal for a structured approach to teachers’ continuous professional development.

What have you done differently since the exchange?

The College is better equipped to work toward the goals set for developing Jamaica’s educational lead-ers. Teacher training institutions have been engaged to streamline and offer courses for teacher profes-sional development. A technical working group has been assembled for re-positioning leadership

training for education officers. We have begun work on the development of a strategic plan for addressing priority issues and have held a system-wide discussion with stakeholders and pertinent practitioners that focused on development of a strategy to include themes for a module to enhance the competencies of pastoral leaders and aspirants. Also, included within this strategy is a recommenda-tion for the development of a regulatory policy to undergird the practice of pastoral care leaders.

What would have happened if you didn’t have the exchange?

Without the exchange, the focus may have not been on improving leadership at all levels of education provision. Teacher professional development, for example, may not have become a major focus in Jamaica at this time; it would certainly have taken much longer to streamline the approach to profes-sional development of Jamaica’s teachers. Also, there would have been major delays in addressing the identified issues regarding developing education leaders. The various organizations represented in the technical working group would not be collabo-rating, and Jamaica’s educators would have limited motivation to activate a system response to the increasing social crisis among the country’s second-ary school population.

CLIENT FEEDBACK FROM DR. MAURICE SMITH, PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL COLLEGE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, JAMAICA.

Dr. Maurice Smith, Principal Director of the National College for Educational Leadership (left) with Dr. Guan Eng Chan, Chief Secretary - Ministry of Higher Education (right)

29ANNEX

ANNEX 1: South-South Facility Grants

Approved in 2015

30 ANNEX 1

No. Region Grant Name Requesting Country

Providing Country

Approval Date

Closing Date

Grant Amount (US$)

1. Sub-Saharan AfricaMauritania Livestock Value Chain Development

Mauritania Zambia 01/12/2015 02/27/2015 29,934

2. Sub-Saharan Africa

Strengthening Institutional and Strategic Capacity of the Zambezi Valley Develop-ment Agency (ZVDA) to Manage Invest-ments and Improve the Business Environ-ment

Mozambique Chile 03/13/2015 03/16/2016 43,125

3. Sub-Saharan AfricaReinforcing Cameroon Public Investment Management Through a Differentiated Exchange of Experience

Cameroon Malaysia 06/11/2015 12/30/2016 49,000

4. Sub-Saharan AfricaStrengthening the Water Sector Reform Process in Nigeria

NigeriaBrazil, Colombia

10/20/2015 06/30/2016 47,000

5. East Asia & PacificImproving disaster preparedness for the elderly and persons with disabilities

TongaTrinidad and Tobago

09/17/2015 06/30/2016 45,000

6.Europe & Central Asia

Teacher Reforms in Moldova Moldova Brazil, Chile 02/26/2015 02/24/2016 47,670

7.Latin America & Caribbean

Using Health Information Systems for Results in the Caribbean

Dominica, St. Lucia

Belize, Domini-can Republic

04/27/2015 04/29/2016 49,900


Understanding the Cost of Non Communi-cable Diseases in the Caribbean

Dominica, St. Lucia

Jamaica 04/27/2015 04/29/2016 49,900


Promoting Accountable and Inclusive Institutions in Paraguay: Learning from implementation of Access to Information legislation

ParaguayBrazil, Chile, Uruguay

05/08/2015 11/30/2015 44,328


Access to markets and value chains for Indigenous People

Paraguay Brazil 06/11/2015 04/01/2016 49,000


Integration of transport and urban planning exchange

EcuadorBrazil, Colom-bia, Chile

06/19/2015 06/30/2016 49,000


Entrepreneurial Exchange Startup Jamaica Jamaica Jordan 07/23/2015 06/30/2016 49,999


Boosting the Information Technologies and Information Technologies Enabled Services (IT and ITES) Sector in Nicaragua

NicaraguaColombia, Mexico

09/08/2015 04/29/2016 49,950


Improving Public Sector Governance HondurasColombia, Chile, Peru

11/04/2015 04/16/2016 49,000


South-South Exchange on Population and Dwelling Censuses for Nicaragua

NicaraguaBrazil, Uruguay, Paraguay

11/12/2015 06/30/2016 49,000

16.Middle East & North Africa

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Capacity Building to Support Mobile Internet Eco-system in Lebanon

Lebanon Chile 03/12/2015 11/01/2015 48,922


Water supply: exchange of experiences from Tunisia to Djibouti

Djibouti Tunisia 03/13/2015 11/30/2015 47,828


Piloting and Scaling-up effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms in Social Safety Net Projects

West Bank & Gaza, Egypt

Philippines 05/27/2015 09/30/2015 40,146


Decentralization and Local Government Development

Tunisia Turkey 12/02/2015 01/31/2016 49,000

20. South AsiaEnvironmental Regulators on Environmental Performance Rating and Disclosure

IndiaGhana, Indonesia

04/29/2015 04/28/2016 49,900

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Providing Country

Approval Date

Closing Date

Grant Amount (US$)

21. South AsiaBhutan: Improving budgeting learning exchange

BhutanThailand, Philippines

07/30/2015 06/30/2016 49,000

22. South AsiaCommunity Action for Health and Nutrition

India Indonesia 12/24/2015 06/30/2016 49,900

Summary of Grants Approved by Region in 2015

Region Grant Amount ($) Grant Amount as % of Total

Sub-Saharan Africa 169,059 16%

East Asia & Pacific 45,000 4%

Europe & Central Asia 47,670 5%

Latin America & Caribbean 440,077 42%

Middle East & North Africa 185,896 18%

South Asia 148,800 14%

Total 1,036,502 100%

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under Implementation as of December 31, 2015

33ANNEX 2


Providing Country

Approval Date

Closing Date

Grant Amount (US$)

1. Sub-Saharan Africa

Strengthening Institutional and Strategic Capacity of the Zambezi Valley Develop-ment Agency (ZVDA) to Manage Invest-ments and Improve the Business Environ-ment

Mozambique Chile 03/13/2015 03/16/2016 43,125

2. Sub-Saharan AfricaReinforcing Cameroon Public Investment Management Through a Differentiated Exchange of Experience

Cameroon Malaysia 06/11/2015 12/30/2016 49,000

3. Sub-Saharan AfricaStrengthening the Water Sector Reform Process in Nigeria

NigeriaBrazil, Colombia

10/20/2015 06/30/2016 47,000

4. East Asia & Pacific

Knowledge sharing and experience exchange on the optimal utilization and management of external financing for development

VietnamChina, Indonesia, Philippines

11/03/2014 01/31/2016 49,000

5. East Asia & PacificImproving disaster preparedness for the elderly and persons with disabilities

TongaTrinidad and Tobago

09/17/2015 06/30/2016 45,000


Railway Sector Knowledge Exchange Ukraine Poland 11/26/2014 03/31/2016 49,000


Teacher Reforms in Moldova Moldova Brazil, Chile 02/26/2015 02/24/2016 47,670


Using Health Information Systems for Results in the Caribbean

Dominica, St. Lucia

Belize, Domini-can Republic

04/27/2015 04/29/2016 49,900


Understanding the Cost of Non Communi-cable Diseases in the Caribbean

Dominica, St. Lucia

Jamaica 04/27/2015 04/29/2016 49,900


Access to markets and value chains for Indigenous People

Paraguay Brazil 06/11/2015 04/01/2016 49,000


Integration of transport and urban planning exchange

EcuadorBrazil, Colom-bia, Chile

06/19/2015 06/30/2016 49,000


Entrepreneurial Exchange Startup Jamaica Jamaica Jordan 07/23/2015 06/30/2016 49,999


Boosting the Information Technologies and Information Technologies Enabled Services (IT and ITES) Sector in Nicaragua

NicaraguaColombia, Mexico

09/08/2015 04/29/2016 49,950


Improving Public Sector Governance HondurasColombia, Chile, Peru

11/04/2015 04/16/2016 49,000


South-South Exchange on Population and Dwelling Censuses for Nicaragua

NicaraguaBrazil, Uruguay, Paraguay

11/12/2015 06/30/2016 49,000


Decentralization and Local Government Development

Tunisia Turkey 12/02/2015 01/31/2016 49,000

17. South AsiaEnvironmental Regulators on Environmen-tal Performance Rating and Disclosure

IndiaGhana, Indone-sia

04/29/2015 04/28/2016 49,900

18. South AsiaBhutan: Improving budgeting learning exchange

BhutanThailand, Phil-ippines

07/30/2015 06/30/2016 49,000

19. South AsiaCommunity Action for Health and Nutrition

India Indonesia 12/24/2015 06/30/2016 49,900


under Implementation as of December 31, 2015

34 ANNEX 2

Summary of Grants Under Implementation by Region in 2015

Region Grant Amount ($) Grant Amount as % of Total







Total 923,344 100%

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Completed in 2015

36 ANNEX 3


Providing Country

Approval Date

Closing Date

Grant Amount (US$)

1. Sub-Saharan AfricaFacilitating Expressway Development in Ethiopia through Collaboration: Leveraging China’s 25 Years of Experience

Ethiopia China 10/31/2013 06/30/2015 45,861

2. Sub-Saharan Africa3A-Strategies for Tackling non-Communi-cable Diseases: Case of Cancer Care and Control

Uganda, Botswana

Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia

02/25/2014 02/25/2015 48,357

3. Sub-Saharan AfricaKnowledge exchange on agricultural productivity and commodity value-chain creation

Uganda Senegal 03/16/2014 03/19/2015 7,167

4. Sub-Saharan AfricaImproving the institutional capacity of Cabo Verde to support the tourism sector through a national tourism organization

Cape Verde Seychelles 05/15/2014 04/30/2015 42,372

5. Sub-Saharan AfricaCapacity Development for Somalia Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process

Somalia Rwanda 09/21/2014 09/03/2015 44,317

6. Sub-Saharan Africa Mauritius Education Hub Mauritius Brazil, India 10/06/2014 09/30/2015 25,353

7. Sub-Saharan AfricaImproving the institutional capacity of Madagascar to support the tourism sector’s development

Madagascar Malaysia 11/17/2014 04/30/2015 49,819

8. Sub-Saharan AfricaMauritania Livestock Value Chain Development

Mauritania Zambia 01/12/2015 02/27/2015 29,934

9. East Asia & PacificMeeting Indonesia’s Urban Development Challenge: South-South Exchange on national urban programs

IndonesiaSouth Africa, India

05/01/2014 06/30/2015 47,924

10. East Asia & PacificVietnam Subnational Economic Develop-ment: lessons from India’s Experience

Vietnam India 06/06/2014 03/30/2015 48,643

11. East Asia & Pacific

The Revision of Village Legislation in Timor-Leste: exchanging experiences with other developing countries facing similar challenges

Timor-Leste

Mozambique, South Africa, Nepal, India, Vanuatu

08/12/2014 01/31/2015 38,519


Routine maintenance of rural roads through the concept of microenterprises

Armenia Peru 06/03/2014 05/31/2015 34,865


Strengthening Municipal Financing Mechanisms in Tajikistan

TajikistanBangladesh, Georgia

07/18/2014 11/30/2015 46,064


Promoting broadband market development

Kyrgyzstan Croatia 08/11/2014 07/31/2015 29,405


Learning from the Romanian Experience in the District Heating Sector

Moldova Romania 12/01/2014 12/15/2015 38,901


Efficient Municipal Enterprises for enhancing delivery of basic public services

Ecuador Colombia 01/23/2014 05/16/2015 22,379


Knowledge exchange between Mexico and Morocco in the renewable energy sector

Mexico Morocco 05/01/2014 05/31/2015 42,863


Nicaragua learns from Land Administra-tion experience in Croatia and Macedonia

NicaraguaMacedonia, Croatia

06/06/2014 03/31/2015 48,767


Improving landfill operation standards and social inclusion plans, in municipalities and national financing programs in Argentina and Bolivia

Bolivia, Argentina

Colombia, Peru

08/28/2014 09/15/2015 48,815


South-South Exchange to improve the Management of Health Technologies (medical equipment) in the Public Health System

Nicaragua, El Salvador

Brazil 09/25/2014 09/15/2015 23,941


Jamaica learning from Malaysia Education Leadership Development

Jamaica Malaysia 11/26/2014 12/31/2015 47,534

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Providing Country

Approval Date

Closing Date

Grant Amount (US$)


Strengthening of a Geo-Referenced Information System, as a tool of the State’s Strategic Planning, with special emphasis in the subnational levels

BoliviaEcuador, Chile, Peru

11/26/2014 04/15/2015 23,089


Building a Corporate Governance Framework for State-Owned Enterprises in Paraguay

Paraguay Peru, Chile 12/01/2014 05/31/2015 46,691


Environmental sustainable cacao production for small scale IP and Afro-descendants farmers in Honduras

HondurasDominican Republic

12/02/2014 06/30/2015 49,500


Promoting Accountable and Inclusive Institutions in Paraguay: Learning from implementation of Access to Information legislation

ParaguayBrazil, Chile, Uruguay

05/08/2015 11/30/2015 44,328


Road Maintenance and Performance Contracts: The Uruguayan and Argentinian Experience

MoroccoUruguay, Argentina

04/22/2014 04/17/2015 47,739


National railways reform in Egypt: experiences from Morocco and Tunisia

EgyptMorocco, Tunisia

06/06/2014 09/30/2015 37,737


Djibouti South-South Development Exchange Roundtable, sectorial five-year action plans for implementing Vision 2035

DjiboutiRwanda, Cape Verde, Mauritius

06/09/2014 01/30/2015 49,958


Study tour for knowledge and experience exchange on integrated water resources management

Morocco China 06/27/2014 04/30/2015 48,825


Study Tour for Knowledge Exchange on integrated coastal zone management

Morocco India 06/30/2014 06/30/2015 45,590


Innovation and Entrepreneurship Capacity Building to Support Mobile Internet Ecosystem in Lebanon

Lebanon Chile 03/12/2015 11/01/2015 48,922


Water supply: exchange of experiences from Tunisia to Djibouti

Djibouti Tunisia 03/13/2015 11/30/2015 47,828


Piloting and Scaling-up effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms in Social Safety Net Projects

West Bank & Gaza, Egypt

Philippines 05/27/2015 09/30/2015 40,146

34. South AsiaIncreasing VAT revenues and transparency in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Vietnam 08/11/2014 01/15/2015 46,400

35. South AsiaBusiness community support for tax reform exchange

Bangladesh Vietnam 12/09/2014 12/31/2015 19,799

ANNEX 3

Summary of Completed Grants by Region in 2015

Region Final Grant Amount ($) Final Grant Amount as % of Total







Total 1,408,351 100%

38 ANNEX

ANNEX 4: Countries Providing and Receiving Knowledge

in the South-South Facility

39ANNEX 4

CountriesNumber of exchanges providing

knowledgeNumber of exchanges receiving

knowledge

1 Afghanistan 3

2 Algeria 1

3 Angola 1

4 Antigua and Barbuda 1

5 Argentina 5 1

6 Armenia 2 5

7 Azerbaijan 1

8 Bangladesh 6 5

9 Barbados 1

10 Belize 2 1

11 Benin 1 2

12 Bhutan 1 3

13 Bolivia 3 9

14 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1

15 Botswana 1 2

16 Brazil 36 1

17 Bulgaria 1

18 Burkina Faso 5 3

19 Burundi 1

20 Cabo Verde 2 3

21 Cambodia 1 1

22 Cameroon 2

23 Central African Republic 2

24 Chad 1

25 Chile 18

26 China 17 2

27 Colombia 20 1

28 Congo, Democratic Republic of 1

29 Congo, Republic of 3

30 Costa Rica 2

31 Cote d'Ivoire 1

32 Croatia 3

33 Czech Republic 1

34 Djibouti 3

35 Dominica 1 6

36 Dominican Republic 7

37 Ecuador 3 3

38 Egypt, Arab Republic of 2 3

39 El Salvador 2 2

40 Equatorial Guinea 1

41 Estonia 1

42 Ethiopia 4 7

43 Gabon 1

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knowledge

44 Gambia, The 1 2

45 Georgia 1 1

46 Ghana 3 9

47 Grenada 1 5

48 Guatemala 2 1

49 Guinea-Bissau 1

50 Haiti 4

51 Honduras 2 10

52 India 25 12

53 Indonesia 11 5

54 Jamaica 6 4

55 Jordan 1

56 Kazakhstan 1 1

57 Kenya 3 2

58 Korea, Republic of 2

59 Kosovo 1

60 Kyrgyz Republic 1 4

61 Lao People´s Democratic Republic 2 5

62 Latvia 1

63 Lebanon 1

64 Lesotho 1 3

65 Liberia 3 3

66 Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of 2 1

67 Madagascar 1 3

68 Malawi 1

69 Malaysia 9

70 Maldives 1

71 Mali 1 2

72 Mauritania 2

73 Mauritius 4 4

74 Mexico 12 2

75 Moldova 2 6

76 Mongolia 1 3

77 Morocco 4 4

78 Mozambique 1 5

79 Myanmar 2

80 Namibia 2

81 Nepal 3 3

82 Nicaragua 3 10

83 Niger 1 2

84 Nigeria 2 9

85 Pakistan 3 2

86 Panama 5 1

87 Papua New Guinea 1 2

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knowledge

88 Paraguay 1 3

89 Peru 11 2

90 Philippines 11 4

91 Poland 1

92 Reunion 1

93 Romania 5 1

94 Russian Federation 3 3

95 Rwanda 6 4

96 Senegal 3 5

97 Serbia 1

98 Seychelles 1

99 Sierra Leone 1

100 Singapore 3

101 Slovak Republic 1

102 Slovenia 1

103 Solomon Islands 1

104 Somalia 1

105 South Africa 13 1

106 South Sudan 2

107 Sri Lanka 2 2

108 St. Kitts and Nevis 2

109 St. Lucia 1 8

110 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1 4

111 Sudan 1

112 Suriname 1

113 Tajikistan 1 9

114 Tanzania 10

115 Thailand 6 1

116 Timor-Leste 2

117 Tonga 1

118 Trinidad and Tobago 1 1

119 Tunisia 4 3

120 Turkey 5

121 Turkmenistan 1

122 Uganda 2 8

123 Ukraine 1

124 Uruguay 4

125 Uzbekistan 3

126 Vanuatu 1 1

127 Vietnam 5 15

128 West Bank and Gaza 1

129 Yemen, Republic of 4

130 Zambia 3 4

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