World Bank Surveys One of the World Bank s key advisory roles is to assist its partner countries to make strategic decisions about the use of their public funds. Governments and the Bank together assess the public sector s potential role as a provider, financier, or regulator of services, or simply as a catalyst for private sector activity. Governments are also responsible for the efficient use of resources at their disposal. To date, they have most often been initiated by the Bank, which holds primary responsibility for the main mission and report drafting, but shares responsibility with the concerned government for dissemination.
PERs often feed into adjustment-related work.
The findings suggest that Borrowers need to further build their capacity to undertake PER-type work and to make public expenditure and public management analysis an integral part of their assessment and evaluation processes. The Bank will continue to be a partner and work with countries until their own capacities are sufficiently developed. Most countries have some data breakdown for public expenditures by financing source, government level, and sector, but have little consistency in breakdowns. It is advisable to develop performance indicators, while explicitly considering the availability of data sources, during the design phase of projects and programs. Improving the management of public expenditures is a difficult and lengthy process requiring nothing less than the establishment and smooth functioning of new or considerably modified sets of institutions within and outside government civil society has a large role to play in its partnership with government as the main stakeholder.