Project planning is generally accepted as an important contributor to project success. However, is there research that affirms the positive impact of project planning and gives guidance on how much effort should be spent on planning? To answer these questions, this book looks at current...

INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Overview and Strategic Outlook -- CHAPTER 1 The Need for New Paradigm -- CHAPTER 2 Complexity of IDAPs -- CHAPTER 3 Strategic Planning and Alignment -- CHAPTER 4 Program Design and Fundraising -- PART II: Core Elements of Managing IDAPs -- CHAPTER 5 Management of People...

For more than 20 years, the development community has claimed that monitoring and evaluation helps projects achieve their objectives. This study uses data from 1,300 World Bank projects evaluated between 2008 and 2014 to investigate this suggested link between the quality of monitoring and...

The authors use data from more than 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2009 to investigate macro and micro correlates of project outcomes. They find that country-level "macro" measures of the quality of policies and institutions are very strongly correlated with project...