Country Assistance Evaluations

Abstract: Ghana is well endowed with natural resources as evidenced by its rich soils and favourable climate for agriculture which remains the mainstay of the economy. Agriculture accounts for 40% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs about over half of the labour force. The service sector accounts for 33% of the GDP, while the industrial sector, including manufacturing and construction, accounts for about 27% of the GDP.

Abstract: This note provides a summary of the ongoing Ghana Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE). The need to move forward with the RBCSP prompted OPEV to work closely with the Ghana Country Team (CT) in providing lessons learned for the new CSP. In this way OPEV influenced the development of the CSP through meetings and by providing comments at Senior Management meetings to review the draft CSP. In addition, OPEV presents this summary to CODE of the Ghana CAE, which is still in drafting. This note offers preliminary findings of the evaluation for discussion of the 2005-09 Ghana CSP to promote maximum development effectiveness during implementation of the Bank program. This note has two parts. The fist part provides the objective, scope and methodology used for the CAE. It then discusses the relevance of Bank strategy in Ghana as well as the lending and non-lending instruments used to implement Bank strategy between 1996 and 2004. This is followed by an assessment of the development impact of the Bank’s assistance to Ghana. The second part builds on the first and draws on findings from the CAE to address issues that hampered outcomes in the last three CSPs, with a view to providing lessons learned and recommendations to guide future CSPs.