The World Bank’s assistance strategiesshowed strong client orientation and were aligned withUganda’s poverty reduction strategy. The programs weresubstantially effective in decentralization, public sectorreform, growth and economic transformation, education, andwater and sanitation. However, more could have been done tohelp counter the perception of increasing corruption,improve power supply, reduce transport costs, enhanceagricultural productivity, and help with family planning andreproductive health. The AfDB’s assistance was also relevantand aligned with the government’s development goals. Itssupport substantially achieved its objectives fordecentralization, public sector finance, growth and economictransformation, improved competitiveness, agriculture, andwater and sanitation, as well as education and health.However, there were some shortcomings in the assistanceprovided for power and roads and in reducing corruption.This report evaluates World Bank and African DevelopmentBank assistance to Uganda during 2001-07. The motivation toundertake a joint evaluation was the shift to a commonstrategic framework, the Uganda Joint Assistance Strategy(UJAS), to guide the formulation and delivery of theirprograms. Under a common strategic framework jointevaluation is, in principal, more cost effective than theequivalent separate evaluations, since at least some aspectsof the evaluation can be done together. This also helps toreduce government transaction costs. The evaluationdiscusses the outcome of the support of each bank, rateseach independently, noting that the two banks are ofdifferent size, capacity, and institutional setting. Inaddition, the two banks have programs that were notimplemented jointly but in parallel, although they regularlyengaged with one another as development partners. Theoutcome ratings for the two institutions are therefore notcomparable and should not be used to imply that oneinstitution did ‘better’ than the other.
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