1. Optimizing Outcomes for Equitable, Efficient, Safe, and Green Mobility
Nancy Vandycke
Walid Abdelwahab

2. Transport commitments, by MDB
MAKING THE MOST OUT OF TRANSPORT INVESTMENT
Transport commitments, by MDB
(US$ billions, 2015)
Source: Progress Report on the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Development (Jan 2017).

3. TRANSPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

4. THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Source: SLOCAT

5. TRANSPORT FOR A DIFFERENT FUTURE?
MORE EQUITABLE?
MORE EFFICIENT?
SAFER?
GREENER?

6. MOBILITY EFFICIENCY EQUITY SAFETY GREEN
OF GOODS AND PEOPLE
A GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
Increase efficiency of transport systems and services
EFFICIENCY
Ensure equity in access to opportunities
EQUITY
Improve “safety” of mobility (SDG target 3.6 on road safety)
SAFETY
Shift transport infrastructure and services to a “green”, clean and resilient path
GREEN
Trade-offs Between Objectives

7. OUR ULTIMATE IMPACT
Improved lives and livelihoods of
billions of people across the world
—including health, environment, quality of life,
and climate change stabilized over the long term.

8. OUR PROJECTS DO NOT AIM AT THE 4 OBJECTIVES
Percentage of FY17 World Bank Transport Projects whose Project Development Objective and Indicators align with the 4 objectives
100%
* Transport Projects approved in FY17. Excludes Additional Financing.
** Percentages shown are for PDO Indicators
Project Development Objectives
PDO Indicator

9. DESIGN AND MEASUREMENT FOCUSES ON OUTPUT
M&E provides insight about project execution and project outputs
Most Common Project Development Indicators are Roads Improved, Number of Direct Beneficiaries, Travel Time
However, these short term indicators lead to sustained long term outputs and impacts

10. MOVING FROM OUTPUT TO OUTCOMES
- Kilometers of Roads Built
- Jobs (direct)
Construction
- Beneficiaries
Intermediate Outcomes
- Job Opportunities Accesibile
- Firm Investment
- Mode choice
- Trade
- Travel Time
- Labor Productivity
- Prices
- Land Use
- Congestion
- GHG Emissions
- Crash Rates
Final Outcomes/ Impact
- Household income
- Regional Integration
- Preservation of Ecosystems
- Health Costs
- Women Economic Empowerment

11. ieCONNECT FOR IMPACT: OPTIMIZING 4 OBJECTIVES
Equity
Efficiency
Road Safety
Green Mobility
- Women Economic Empowerment
- Labor Market Outcomes: incomes, participation…
- Productivity
- Industrial or Agricultural Output
- Regional Trade and Integration
- Social Costs (e.g. due to air pollution)
- Preservation of Ecosystems
- GHG Emissions
- Crash, Injury and Fatality Rates
- Social Costs (economic and health related)

12. Phase I of ieConnect for Impact program was launched in 2015:
SCALING UP IMPACT EVALUATION
Phase I of ieConnect for Impact program was launched in 2015:
Partnership: UK Department for International Development (DFID)
World Bank Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Team
World Bank Transport and ICT Global Practice
Goal: Transform the Growth Potential of Transport Investments
Contribution: Initial Allocation of $2.15 million through i2i to Transport and ICT
Strategic Priorities: Urban Mobility, Development Corridors, Road Safety

13. WHAT IECONNECT FOR IMPACT HAS DONE SO FAR
Mauritania
Nicaragua
Rwanda
Colombia
Ethiopia
Nigeria
ICT
Corridors
Urban
Safety
Rural Roads
Brazil
Kenya
Peru
Tanzania

14. Regional Distribution Thematic Distribution Expansion to other MDBs
LAUNCHING PHASE II
22 New Experiments with the following priorities:
Regional Distribution
Transport Focus
Thematic Distribution
Expansion to other MDBs
1. Co-financed programs
2. Non-WB co-funded IE
3. Additional MDBs involved at operational level
1. Africa (75%)
2. South and Southeast Asia (10%)
1. Transport Corridors (30%)
2. Urban Mobility (25%)
3. Road Safety (25%)
1. Low/lower middle income (100%)
2. Gender (30%)
3. Fragile and Conflict States (50%)

15. WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU
Use your project to think about contributing towards the 4 global objectives
Stretch your mind for impact evaluation design and measurement
Open your project to new ideas

16. Thank You!

17. ANNEX: WHAT IS IMPACT EVALUATION?
Impact Evaluation assesses the outcomes that can be attributed to a particular project, program, or policy.
The central question:
How would outcomes have changed if the project or policy had not been implemented?

18. ANNEX: THE ieCONNECT FOR IMPACT INITIATIVE
Tests interventions (policies, regulations and infrastructure) in order to optimize outcomes for equitable, efficient, safe, and green mobility
Uses non-experimental methods to assess the impact of infrastructure
Uses experimental methods to test complementary interventions that may enhance the development benefits of transport projects

19. ANNEX: WHAT ARE IMPACT EVALUATION METHODS?
Whenever possible, create or identify a control and a treatment group with same underlying characteristics
The treatment group receives an intervention whereas the control group does not
In these conditions, differences in outcomes between the treatment and control groups can be attributed to the intervention
When treatment and control groups are systematically different, rely on statistical methods to help gauge actual outcomes