For the future, she is planning to strengthen Project H's existing network, rather than expanding it.
"As we announced last December, we are working with the executive to strengthen project management and reporting arrangements within a clearer governance system.
The World Bank project supervisors and managers should strengthen project design and monitoring and thus improve project implementation as well as the chances for project success.
The effective measures would improve the calculation methods, design the building and energy system with locality, develop integrated design of renewable energy systems, establish evaluation indexes of renewable energy applicability in buildings, and strengthen project management.
Baseline data were collected between May and June 2012 to help design the project and midline data were collected between October and November 2013 to help strengthen project implementation.
There was $11 billion for rebuilding and hardening the transportation system in the region, and more than $5 billion for flood control and shore strengthening projects.
The related FPR strengthening projects have been dramatically increased all over the world.
Nevertheless, premature failure due to debonding of FRP sheets from the concrete surface is one of the major challenges in using FRP composites in strengthening projects.
Effective bond length of FRP composites, in fact, is an important part of all strengthening calculations, and conservative design guideline predictions can lead to waste of composite materials in strengthening projects.
The portfolio included privatization projects in Egypt, Bosnia, and Indonesia; capital markets and corporate governance strengthening projects in the former Soviet Union and India; pension reform programs in Mexico and Poland; and competitiveness and workforce development projects in Egypt.
The author worked extensively in developing countries, for a period of four years in Pakistan and for a period of just over a year in Nepal, as project director for health systems strengthening projects.
