Disbursement Linked Indicator Approach
Origin
Traditional Funding
Characteristics
• Funding based on input factors
• Expenditures
Issues
• No talk of performance of
institutions:
• Quality of education
• Learning/employability
• Scale-up of education
• Research publication and
outreach to companies
• Institutions pursue their goals
Performance-Based Funding
Aim:
• To achieve better results
• Respects institutional autonomy and
leadership, and still align
institutional goals with development
goals
• Improve Institutional capacity to
plan, decide and implement
• Increase accountability
• Objective, predictable, and
transparent funding allocation
• Additionally for the WB: support a
government program, pilot an
approach to results-based financing,
and use of government procurement
rules to strengthen capacity

Govt, WB and institutions design a
government program: performance and
funding agreement to establish Africa Centers
of Excellence:
1. Results: measurable and within control of
institution
2. Disbursements


Linked to results and
Reimbursement of selected costs
3. Costs:
 Investment line - in budget
 regular salaries and other recurrent costs– in budget
WB
Govt
Financing
Agreement:
Results
- Disburseme
nt
- Costs
=
Institution
Performance
Agreement:
Same
Results
- Same Disb.
- Same Costs
+
TA
• Govt only disburses when WB disburses => no financial risk to
government


DLI 1: Regional specialization endorsed and
institutional readiness (800,000)
DLI 2: Excellence in education and research
capacity and development impact (6,400,000)
◦ New short term students in ACE courses of which 30%
must be regional students -$400 per student (double
regional)
◦ New Master students in ACE courses of which 30% must
be regional students -$2000 per student (double
regional)
◦ New PhD students in ACE courses of which 30% must be
regional students-$10000 per student (double regional)
◦ N# of outreach “periods” for faculty, master and PhD
students-2000 per outreach period (double within the
region)
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
DLR#2.5: International evaluation and
accreditation of quality of education programs.
◦ Amounts: 600,000 per program internationally
accredited;
◦ 100,000 per program nationally or regionally
accrediated;
◦ 100,000 per program per gap-assessment certfied or
undertaken by an international quality assurance agency;
◦ 100,000 per program for self-evaluation a satisfactory
international standard;
◦ 100,000 per program description meeting international
standard

DLR#2.6 Published articles in internationally
recognized and peer reviewed journals
◦ Amounts: 15,000 per article and 30,000 per article
with a regional co-author.

DLR#2.7: Externally revenue generation
◦ Amounts: US$ 1 per externally generated revenue,
and US$ 2 per externally generated revenue from
the region

DLR#2.8: Meeting milestones for improved
learning and research environment specified
in the Performance and Funding contracts.
◦ Amount per milestone: 400,000

DLI 3 Timely, transparent and institutionally
reviewed Financial Management (400,000)
◦ DLI : Timely withdrawal application supported by
financial reporting for the ACE account for the period
◦ DLI: Functioning Audit Committee under the university
council
◦ DLI: Functioning internal audit unit for the university
◦ DLI : Web Transparency on Financial management (webaccess to audit reports, interim financial reports,
budgets and annual work plan)

DLI 4 Timely and audited Procurement (400,000)
◦ DLI: Timely procurement audit
◦ DLI : Timely and Satisfactory Procurement Progress
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Objective
Indicator
Institutional
readiness
 Approval of MoU for regional specialization through the
ACEs
 Creation of ACE endowment fund
 Signed Govt-ACE Performance agreement with partner
agreements
N# of new students in ACE courses (30% must be regional
students):
 New PhD students
 New Master students
 New Short term students (min. 40 hours)
Strengthen
education
capacity
(excellence)
Strengthen
Education
Capacity & Dev.
impact
Strengthen
education
capacity
(excellence)
Strengthened
research capacity
(excellence)
Strengthen
education and
research capacity
Strengthened
education and
research capacity
Financial
Management
 Procurement
TOTAL
Minimum target Expected
Unit price
(project
Disbursemen
t
duration)

800,000

800,000



40
200
1,000



400,000
400,000
400,000



$10,000
$2,000
$400
 N# of outreach “periods” (faculty and students working 1
months outside of ACEs)

200

800,000

$4,000
 International accreditation
 Institutional and/or
2 program
accreditation
 Gap assessment
 Self-evaluation
 Regional accre
 Bologna compliant

800,000
 Gap assessment undertaken by an international QA agency
 Self-evaluation undertaken following a satisfactory
international standards
 Regional or National Accreditation or ISO
 Bologna Compliant programs
 N# of published articles in internationally recognized and
peer reviewed journals

$600,000
(Institutional acc.)
$100,000
(per program acc. And
per other quality result)
40


$1,200,000

1,200,0
00
 Improved teaching and learning environment as per
approved proposal (institutional specific annual milestones)

1 annual
milestone

1,600,0
00
 Timely withdrawal application
 Functioning Audit Committee
 Functioning internal audit Web Transparency on Financial
management
 DLI: Timely procurement audit
 DLI : Timely and Satisfactory Procurement Progress

Timely
submission



(x2 for regional periods)


 $ externally generated revenue
(x2 for regional
students)
800,000
•
$15,000

$1

400,000
400,000

100,000
400,000

100,000
8,000,00
0
(x2 if co-authored
regionally)
(x2 for regional revenue)
(per annual milestone)
(per annual milestone)
(per annual milestone)
We welcome opportunities for collaboration and partnerships
hbayusuf@worldbank.org and Andreas Blom,
ablom@worldbank.org
More info on Africa Centers of Excellence on www.aau.org
WB support and analysis of Africa higher education:
www.worldbank.org/afreducation
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