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APPENDIX H
WORKING ACROSS ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES: THE USE OF CROSS SUPPORT
time) were by Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM)
staff.
Table H.2. Inter-VPU Cross Support (XS) Sold, Seller's Perspective, FY10
to
Regions
Inter-VPU cross support sold (staff weeks)
to to Total
Network other XS
Anchors units sold
Total
seller
time
Inter-VPU cross support (% of seller's total time)
to to to other Total XS
Regions Network units sold
Anchors
AFR 424 644 283 1351 41758 1.0% 1.5% 0.7% 3.2%
EAP 346 239 218 803 25150 1.4% 1.0% 0.9% 3.2%
ECA 360 208 93 661 22472 1.6% 0.9% 0.4% 2.9%
LCR 290 322 91 703 20415 1.4% 1.6% 0.4% 3.4%
MNA 245 118 71 434 11511 2.1% 1.0% 0.6% 3.8%
SAR 450 216 62 729 20648 2.2% 1.0% 0.3% 3.5%
Regions 2115 1747 818 4681 141954 1.5% 1.2% 0.6% 3.3%
to
Regions
Inter-VPU cross support sold (staff weeks)
to to Total
Network other XS
Anchors units
Total
seller
time
Inter-VPU cross support (% of seller's total time)
to to to other Total XS
Regions Network units
Anchors
SDN 2428 40 195 2663 21017 11.6% 0.2% 0.9% 12.7%
HDN 745 4 60 808 5356 13.9% 0.1% 1.1% 15.1%
PREM 369 12 45 427 4476 8.3% 0.3% 1.0% 9.5%
FPD 646 22 17 686 5958 10.8% 0.4% 0.3% 11.5%
Networks 4189 78 318 4584 36807 11.4% 0.2% 0.9% 12.5%
TOTAL
Regions + 6304 1825 1136 9265 178760 3.5% 1.0% 0.6% 5.2%
networks
Source: World Bank Database.
Note: Other units include DEC, WBI, ISG…
47. Cross support from anchors to anchors amounted for only 0.2 percent of anchors’
staff time. HDN had the lowest percentage of staff in other VPU’s time sold to other
anchors (i.e. 0.1 percent); the Finance and Private Sector Development Network
(FPD) sold 0.4 percent of its time to other network anchors.
48. From the buyers’ perspective in FY10, Regions purchased 6.5 percent of time
worked within their VPUs: 1.4 percent from other Regions, 2.9 percent from network
anchors, and 2.2 percent from other VPUs. Inter-VPU cross support represented 10
percent of time worked in the Middle East and North Africa and 7.2 and 6.5 percent
staff time worked in South Asia and Africa, respectively (see Table H.3) .
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