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Download or read book Implementation Completion and Results Report (IBRD-72610) for a Housing and Urban Technical Assistance Loan in the Amount of US$7.77 Million to the United Mexican States written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Mexico and Colombia Country Management Unit. Sustainable Development Management Unit and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratings for the (HUTAL) Project for Mexico were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory, the risk to development outcome was low or negligible, the Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also moderately satisfactory. Some lessons learned included: the HUTAL experience suggests that technical assistance lending may actually set policy dialogue back by focusing Bank and client time on bureaucratic procedural issues and, in the case of HUTAL, by a de facto relinquishing of policy dialogue to other institutions like (IADB) which are supporting specific investment programs (HABITAT). Recently the Mexico country department has been engaging in sector policy dialogue through non-reimbursable technical assistance, grant funded Economic Sector Work (ESW), stepped-up fee-for service work, and memos-of understanding, in addition to preparation and supervision of Development Policy Loan (DPL). Time will tell how these instruments work to sustain productive policy dialogues. One tool the Bank could consider will be increased South-South or South-North exchanges to bring the Bank's global knowledge to bear in client countries. Traditionally Technical Assistance Lending (TAL) offers a means of supporting nascent and weak institutions and of preparing for investment operations. In a Middle Income Country (MIC), however, the costs of setting up and operating public institutions are covered by existing government revenue.