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Disclosure of Project and Contract Information in Public-Private Partnerships
No full textThis report presents a review of current
practices on the disclosure of information on Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) projects and contracts from 11
jurisdictions at the national and sub-national level
representing 8 countries. It is part of a broader program of
work being undertaken by the World Bank Institute (WBI) on
increasing the transparency of public-private contracting.
The objective of this review is to present emerging
practices on the disclosure of information on PPP projects
and contracts and to distill from these suggestions to
government agencies on how they can provide more information
to their public on their PPP projects. There are no grounds
to believe that PPPs require greater transparency than
similar projects executed through traditional public
procurement. However as with publicly-executed projects PPPs
can benefit from greater transparency. In addition PPPs may
require considerations and approaches to disclosure not
present in publicly-executed projects. The remainder of this
report is structured as follows: section one presents a
synthesis of observed practices and then a recommended
approach in terms of essential information to be disclosed
and the key instruments through which this is done; section
two presents country case studies in a standardized format
reflecting the recommendations in section one; annexures one
and two list relevant websites, legislation and policy
Liberia's New National Development Strategy : Planning for Stronger Results in a Low Capacity Context
No full textFragile countries face deep
institutional constraints that require attention to achieve
better development outcomes for their citizens. Underlying
issues such as fragmented development efforts across
sectors, limited capacity to drive change and lack of
multi-stakeholder ownership weaken the possibility for
results. Without addressing these constraints progress can
be slowed or blocked. When World Bank Institute (WBI)
partnered with the Government of Liberia and World Bank
regional team to support the country s second Poverty
Reduction Strategy (PRS), the objectives were to improve the
capacity to formulate an effective, country-led and -owned
PRS using practical, collaborative results tools; design the
PRS to drive institutional change processes in the Liberia
context; and integrate national planning, monitoring and
budgetary processes around common development outcomes
toward the country s new vision. The second Liberia PRS, the
agenda for transformation, takes first steps in these
directions. The government developed the PRS by engaging
with a wide set of stakeholders and basing the strategy on
achieving outcomes. The strategy is framed around addressing
constraints to institutional change and integrates
previously fragmented development efforts. Liberia s
experience creates its strategy offers lessons for Liberia,
other countries, WBI and the World Bank around how to
conduct effective strategic planning for results in a low
capacity and fragile context
實施管理財政承諾從公私夥伴關係的框架︰ 操作說明
No full textThis note presents practical guidance on
how to implement a framework for managing fiscal commitments
from Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). It draws on
specific regional operational experience and on World Bank
Institute (WBI)'s wider thematic engagement with
different partners worldwide. The note provides practical
advice on how to: consistently identify and assess fiscal
commitments arising from PPPs during project preparation and
implementation; incorporate these into the project approval
process, including budgeting for these appropriately; and
strengthen the monitoring and reporting of fiscal
commitments over the lifetime of the project. It explains
the fiscal commitments that can arise from PPP projects; why
governments may find it difficult to assess and manage these
fiscal commitments and incorporate them into project
selection; and the key components of an institutional
framework to manage fiscal commitments at both the
development and implementation stages of a project,
including the roles, responsibilities, and processes for
managing PPP fiscal commitments
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Designing a Multi-Stakeholder Results Framework : A Toolkit to Guide Participatory Diagnostics and Planning for Stronger Results and Effectiveness
No full textThis toolkit provides guidance to
strengthen the results and effectiveness of
multi-stakeholder development planning, including practical
tools and processes. The toolkit guides collaborative steps,
such as setting goals, diagnosing institutional problems and
monitoring outcomes, all to produce a multi-stakeholder,
outcome-based results framework to prepare a development
strategy or plan and to implement with a strong result
focus. It also includes guidance to use the results
framework to highlight potentially high-impact areas for
strengthening multi-stakeholder activities and to integrate
monitoring and budget planning to a common set of outcomes.
The toolkit gives special attention to the fragile context
for development practitioners working in this area. The
toolkit modules provide customizable resources to create a
multi-stakeholder, outcome-based results framework. The
modules can be used together as a complete resource or
separately, focusing on modules that are of immediate
interest. Although WBI originally developed the modules to
support strategy design at the national level, they can also
guide multi-stakeholder planning for results in other
settings or key sectors where actors have diverse
perspectives, with appropriate adjustments
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Public-Private Partnerships : Reference Guide Version 1.0
No full textThe Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) reference guide seeks to provide advice on what PPP practitioners should know, rather than provide advice on what to do. The guide sets out the main topics, looks at the key issues that must be addressed, and provides what we consider the most important references that PPP practitioners can turn to for answers and to enhance their own knowledge and understanding. It is structured into separate sections that focus on three main areas, firstly what are PPPs, when might they be used and the advantages and disadvantages relative to public provision; secondly the policy, legal and institutional frameworks that should be put into place to help improve their effectiveness; and finally the ways in which PPP projects can be developed and implemented. A diverse range of case studies and institutional solutions, from all parts of the world, are presented in the PPP reference guide
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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