World Bank Quality Assurance Group (QAG)

World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)

Global Environment Fund (GEF)

Global Mechanism for the Convention to Combat Desertification (GM)

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Africa Region (Albert Martinez) 4/08-7/08. Advised on how to improve the performance of risky rural and environmental projects in Africa.

East Asia and Pacific Region (Dan Ritchie) 3-4/08. Advised on how to improve the performance of rural projects in the pooly-performing portfolio in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.

Africa Region (Christophe Crepin), 10/03-6/04. Advised on the substance of the Africa-wide program in sustainable land management.

Europe and Central Asia Region (Laura Tuck and Kevin Cleaver), 11/00-5/01. Peer reviewed projects and sector work in Albania, Aral Sea Basin, Moldova, and the regional rural development strategy.

Europe and Central Asia Region (Marc Blanc), 5-6/00. Reviewed quality at entry of projects in Kosovo and Kyrgyz Republic.

Africa Region (Ousmane Badiane and Joseph Baah-Dwomoh), 2-4/00. Identified a marshland development component of a rural sector project in Rwanda.

Middle East and North Africa Region (Peter Koenig and Salah Darghouth), 1/00. Advised on quality assurance of high-risk projects in Yemen.

Africa Region (Talib Esmail and Joseph Baah-Dwomoh), 3/99. Advised on Bank strategy for supporting rural development in Burundi in the event that political conditions allow a transition from emergency to developmental assistance.

QAG (Fred Swartzendruber) 6/09 - present. Assessed a sample of knowledge products delivered in FY07-08, and synthesized past QAG work on relevant analytical and advisory activities.

QAG (Fred Swartzendruber)1-6/09. Assessed post-delivery expenditures for a sample of analytical and advisory activities completed in FY07-08.

QAG (Anis Dani) 8-12/08. Assessed quality of the lending program of a sample of rural and environmental projects under implementation in FY 07-08.

QAG (Fred Swartzendruber) 10/07-2/08. Designed a program for assessing the quality of projects that were dropped in FY06-07. Assessed the quality of a sample of such projects.

QAG (Anis Dani) 10-11/07. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of recipient-executed trust funds for FY06/07.

QAG (Jose Sokol), 06-10/07. Assessed quality of a sample of analytical and advisory activities that were dropped in FY04-07.

QAG (Xavier Legrain), 04-10/07. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of rural and environmental projects approved in FY06-07.

QAG (Jose Sokol), 10/06-1/07. Assessed the quality of analytical work on rural development strategies in Algeria and Morocco.

QAG (Albert Martinez), 7-10/06. Assessed the quality of supervision of a sample of rural and environmental projects under implementation in FY05-06.

QAG (Xavier Legrain), 1-6/06. Assessed the quality of a sample of analytical and advisory activities undertaken in 7/04-12/05.

QAG (Hari Prasad), 5-12/05. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of agricultural and environmental projects approved in FY04-05.

QAG (Xavier Legrain), 3-4/05. Assessed the quality of a sample of non-lending technical assistance undertaken in FY04.

QAG (Ram Chopra and Parvez Hasan), 10/04-2/05. Assessed the quality of all analytical and project work in Ethiopia and Malawi in FY 01-04. Contributed to a similar assessment for Vietnam.

QAG (Malcolm Bale), 5-9/04. Assessed the quality of all analytical work in agriculture and rural development in Morocco and Tanzania in FY01-04, as part of a pilot on quality of sectoral analytical work.

QAG (Xavier Legrain), 3-9/04. Assessed the quality of a sample of other economic and sector work undertaken in FY04.

QAG (Amnon Golan), 2-4/04. Assessed the quality of the whole project portfolio in Cambodia, as an early application of the country as the unit of account.

QAG (Albert Martinez), 11/03-1/04. Assessed the quality of the rural project portfolio in Albania, as a pilot for future work on quality of lending with the country as the unit of account.

QAG (Xavier Legrain), 9-11/03. Assessed the quality of the performance of the Poverty Sector Board.

QAG (Saeed Rana), 7-9/03. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of agricultural and environmental projects approved in FY03.

QAG (Praveen Kumar), 11-12/02. Assessed the quality of a sample of economic and sector work undertaken in FY02.

QAG (Arun Banerjee), 9-11/02. Assessed the quality of supervision of a sample of agricultural and environmental projects under execution in FY02.

QAG (Xavier Legrain), 5-8/02. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of agricultural and environmental projects approved in FY02.

QAG (John Sinclair), 7-9/00. Assessed the quality of a sample of economic and sector work undertaken in FY00.

QAG (Hari Prasad), 11-12/99. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of agricultural and environmental projects approved in 1999.

QAG (Jonathan Brown), 7-8/99. Assessed the quality of supervision of a sample of Bank-financed agricultural and environmental projects that were being implemented in FY99.

QAG (Alain Colliou), 4-10/99. Assessed the quality of a sample of economic and sector work undertaken in FY99.

QAG (Hari Prasad), 9-10/98. Assessed quality at entry of a sample of agricultural and environmental projects approved in 1998.

IEG, (Claude Leroy-Themeze) 4/09. Peer reviewed the Country Assistance Evaluation for FY03-08 in Nepal.

GEF, Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (Stephen Danyo), 9-10/06. Reviewed the Strategic Investment Program for Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.

GM (Per Ryden), 1-6/03. Orchestrated an inter-agency consultation on action research on investing in drylands, held in the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, 6/03.

GM (Cheikh Sourang), 11/00-6/01. In light of disappointments with implementation of the convention, arising from the inability of drylands advocates to convince the skeptics, researched and advised on success stories in drylands.

GM (Cheikh Sourang), 2-10/00. Advised on positions the Global Mechanism secretariat could take on specific transboundary problems (Niger/Nigeria, Fouta Djallon), the Horn of Africa emergency, and OECD/DAC guidelines on poverty reduction.

IFAD (Cheikh Sourang and Yahia Bouarfa), 1-2/99. Identified analytical work in natural resources management to be undertaken with Cameroon, which might lead to project preparation.

IFAD (Cheikh Sourang and Yahia Bouarfa), 11/98. Advised on (a) how to use analytical work on incentives for natural resources management in the design of IFAD operations, and (b) how IFAD might assist the Comite Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Secheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) to provide operational guidance to member countries in natural resources policy and project formulation, particularly in water, soil fertility, and livestock.