Global Delivery Initiative Case Studies

GDI seeks to bring development practitioners together to share and leverage delivery know-how and operational knowledge. It is an initiative of the World Bank and has for the past few years when it was started, created a common set of methodologies for capturing and using delivery know-how and a common taxonomy for identifying and analyzing delivery challenges. We signed a contract with GDI to deliver 3 case studies in 2018. The case studies on the World Bank’s Transport Sector Project in Ghana and Liberia, and the Power Sector Project under Africa-China Program of the Bank are due in the first quarter of 2018. Case studies were completed and shared with the GDI team for review and completion For the first quarter of 2019, we initiated work for the second papers including desk research and stakeholder mapping, and submitted a budget for field visit to be approved by the GDI team. ACET submitted a draft annotated outline for the second paper in preparation for a case clinic. In May, ACET undertook a stakeholder consultation on Road, Bridges Maintenance, and Management in Mozambique with contractors, policy makers, and World Bank staff. This was followed by a stakeholder consultation in Tanzania in July 2019 with a focus on the Southern African Trade Facilitation study. Lastly, ACET returned to Tanzania in August to undertake the field research for the Bus Rapid Transit case study. First draft reports of all case studies have been completed and submitted to GDI for review. Following the completion of the stakeholder consultation in Tanzania in July 2019 and the field research for the Bus Rapid Transit case study in Tanzania in August, the team held a case clinic workshop to review comments from stakeholders. The second draft report for all the three case studies were also completed and submitted this quarter. In Q4, the project team submitted the third drafts of all the three case studies for review, comments and approval by the external task team leaders for finalization. In Q1, the project team submitted the fourth drafts of all the three case studies after external review. They also submitted same to the Task Team Leaders (TTL) for clearance. The clearance process is done to validate the case studies and provide further inputs, if any to the project team. In Q2 2020 The report was finalized and the project officially closed in June.