The Matrix System at Work - Independent Evaluation Group - World ...

CHAPTER 6
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
network size (number of staff) and scope (number of sectors); inadequate
accountability to networks by introducing co-financing of regional sector directors
by both networks and Regions; and inadequate division of responsibilities and
accountabilities for sector governance between sector directors (for Bank-wide tasks)
and sector managers (for regional tasks).
6.19 Regional matrix: Rebalance the relationship between country and sector units
and regional functions to ensure appropriate attention to lending, knowledge, and
quality. This would need to address: span of control of regional sector managers by
relieving them of responsibility for Bank-wide sector governance; the number of
regional sector managers based on workload (number of staff and operations) in
sectors and Regions, recognizing actual costs of shadow managers; and the declining
regional sector unit budget shares with a consideration of restoring them to FY02
levels.
6.20 Network rebalancing: Address key organizational constraints in the Sustainable
Development Network. This includes: (a) excessive span of control of SDN sector managers;
(b) dissimilarity in structures across the Regions; (c) unrealistic range of sector responsibilities of
sector directors and country sector leaders/coordinators; and (d) removing the separation
between safeguards and non-safeguards work by paying equal attention to both aspects of
environmental and social sustainability.
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