Each record describes something a country built that the indicators do not capture. The source provides the published number; the mechanism is our interpretation.
Scores describe outcomes. These records describe how a country acted, what it needed and what happened. 863 of 863 records include a mechanism. They do not affect scores.
After the May 2014 floods displaced about 90,000 people and directly affected about a million in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two entities' agriculture and water ministries and Brcko District distributed US$27 million of emergency goods and restored 446 public service facilities to pre-flood condition against a target of 200, including more than 260 km of rural roads and 53,460 m of flood defences, by the project's June 2019 closing.
The state treasury on-lent an emergency loan to the two entities and Brcko District, whose ministries bought relief goods through strategic reserves and then rebuilt municipal and regional infrastructure from a list drawn from the joint needs assessment.
Preconditions
A joint recovery needs assessment agreed by all levels of government within weeks
Entity-level strategic reserves able to procure and distribute goods
Municipalities with project lists ready for rebuilding
Limits: The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on its own US$100 million emergency loan; the event figures are in the context section (printed page 5), the outcome table on page 13, and the road and flood defence figures on page 18. The 446 facilities exceeds its target partly because unused emergency-goods funds were moved into infrastructure in January 2016, so the target was not a fixed plan. 'Facilities' counts very different things, from a culvert to a bridge, and the report does not say how many were fully rebuilt. Emergency goods reached beneficiaries according to third-party audits in 2017, but some agricultural goods arrived late. The project closed six months after its December 2018 original date, five years after the floods, so this is slow recovery, not rapid response, and it covers one loan, not the whole post-flood programme financed by the EU and others.
The Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted an emergency law on 4 May 2020 to subsidise employers' mandatory insurance contributions, and the Federation paid 90,934,169 KM under it, 18.63 percent of the 488,207,999 KM appropriated, with the first payment in July 2020 and the last in January 2021, after the law lapsed on 31 July 2020.
The Federation government drafted an emergency law within days of the shutdown and the Federation parliament passed it under urgent procedure, paying part of each employer's mandatory insurance contributions per worker through the pension, health and employment funds, with the tax administration determining eligibility.
Preconditions
A tax administration able to determine eligibility and issue implementing rules quickly, which here took two months
Contribution records held per worker so a subsidy could be paid directly into the insurance funds
Eligibility rules loose enough for firms to qualify, which the low take-up suggests were not met
Limits: The measure covers one of the country's two entities, the Federation, and not Republika Srpska or Brcko District, which ran their own schemes; it is not a state-level response. The numbers sit inside a long PDF, on printed pages 157 to 158 and 180 to 181. The audit office found that the law passed without the required fiscal estimate, that the first subsidy, for April 2020, was paid in July, two months after the law took effect, because the tax administration had not prepared its implementing rules in time, and that the 80,000,000 KM guarantee fund the law named drew nothing from this appropriation. After the law lapsed, 111,700,000 KM was moved to other uses and 285,573,830 KM stayed unused. The audit office dropped its planned performance audit and reported that the movement in employment could not be linked to the subsidies: the most subsidies were approved in April 2020, the month with the largest fall in employment. The record shows that a rule changed within weeks of the shock and was paid at small scale, and it does not show that the change protected jobs.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's public road company PC Roads FBH delivered 76.9 km of road works, including a 35 km upgrade of the Neum to Stolac road, under a project approved in August 2016, but rehabilitated only 41.75 km of main roads against an appraisal target of 178 km, which was cut to 42.23 km in 2021, and the closing date moved from December 2021 to September 2023.
The entity road company took a multilateral loan for a list of sections whose designs did not yet exist, then cut the list to what designs, land and budget allowed and concentrated on one strategic coastal link.
Preconditions
Detailed designs and land acquisition finished before the results framework is fixed
An entity-level road agency able to borrow with state guarantee
Co-financing that can be raised when costs move
Limits: The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on a project it co-financed with the EIB. The 178 and 42.23 km targets are in para. 55 (printed page 19), and the 41.75 km achieved against the revised 42.23 km target is in the outcome table (Table 4, page 13), the 76.9 km and the Neum to Stolac upgrade in paras. 30 to 31 (page 11), the cost per km in para. 45 (page 17) and the dates on the datasheet (page 2). The Bank attributes the cut to designs that were only 1.0 km complete at entry, so the 178 km target may have been an error of preparation rather than a delivery that shrank; the report says rehabilitation cost per km came out more than five times the plan for the same reason. Total project cost rose from US$101.3 million to about US$105.5 million, mostly as an EIB increase. Land acquisition and COVID-19 delayed the Crnaja tunnel and led to sections being cancelled. The project covers one of the country's two entities, not Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole.