This is the Project Performance Assessment Report of the World Bank for five post-conflict projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), namely the Emergency Recovery Project, the Emergency Landmines Clearance Project, the Emergency Demobilization and Reintegration Project, the Local Iinitiatives Project and the Republika Srpska Reconstruction Assistance Project.
The relevance rating would have been higher had it not been for Emergency Recovery Project ' s fourth humanitarian objective, which was only modestly relevant to BiH ' s reconstruction. Emergency Landmines Clearance Project: the project objectives were modestly relevant to BiH ' s post-conflict recovery program. Both efficacy and efficiency in achieving the objectives were negligible; project objectives were not met, yet substantial costs were incurred. Emergency Demobilization and Reintegration Project: for a country in an emergency post-conflict situation the project objectives were modestly relevant; they emphasized longer-term goals too much, even though they neglected demobilization itself. Efficacy in achieving the relevant objectives was modest, through the effective support the project gave to reintegrating demobilized combatants, albeit on a small scale and fewer than targeted. Local Initiatives Project: All three project objectives were highly relevant to the post-conflict development needs and policies pursued in BiH, already more than a year out of the war when this project began. Efficacy in achieving these objectives was high, being exceeded in the case of the setting up the MC0 framework in particular. Republika Srpska Reconstruction Assistance Project: For the most part, the objectives of this project were substantially relevant to Entity and Bank recovery policies.
Concerning the Emergency Landmines Clearance Project, it not only failed to achieve its most relevant objective, but even helped make BiH's vulnerability to landmines worse, by contributing to a system that inflates the landmine problem through reporting minefields that no longer exist and failing to report progress made. Bank inexperience in this field contributed to the failures experienced.
