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Social Safety Nets: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 2000-2010
The Bank’s support to Social Safety Nets (SSNs) throughout the decade has relied strongly on both lending and knowledge sharing to engage clients. Bank support has largely accomplished its stated short-term objectives…
Monitoring and Evaluation: Some Tools, Methods and Approaches
Government officials, development managers and civil society are increasingly aware of the value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development activities. M&E provides a better means of learning from past…
Gender
IEG consistently produces evaluations that analyze the results of the World Bank Group’s gender work at the corporate/strategic level. Most recently, the Gender Mid-Term Review (MTR) focused on assessing the processes…
Zambia - Country Assistance Strategy for the period FY08 - FY12 : IEG review
This review examines the implementation of the Fiscal Years (FY) 2008-2011 Zambia Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY 2012, and assesses the CAS Completion Report (CASCR).
The…
Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Support for Public-Private Partnerships (Approach Paper)
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have seen a rise in developing countries over the last two decades. More than 134 developing countries apply PPPs, contributing about 15-20 percent of total infrastructure investment…
Timor-Leste - Country assistance strategy (CAS) completion report review for the period FY06-FY11 : IEG review
This review examines the implementation of the Fiscal Years (FY) 2006-2008 Timor-Leste Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and the FY 2010 Timor-Leste Interim Strategy Note (ISN), and assesses the CAS Completion Report (…
Trade
The WBG is supportive of an open, rules-based, predictable multilateral trading system, and among its objectives are to help countries participate in and enjoy the benefits of such a system. Key strategies for reaching…
World Bank Group Response to the Global Economic Crisis - Phase 2
This report details the extent and nature of WBG’s response to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, as well as the limitations and partial outcomes of this involvement. It also describes the WBG’s lending vehicles and their…
The Matrix System at Work
The objectives of the matrix system were to enhance client responsiveness through its country delivery model, and the technical quality of its operations and knowledge services through strong technical networks and an…
Why, What, and How of World Bank Group Strategy: What Evaluations Tell Us about the Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Reform
In the fall of 2012, President Jim Kim launched a series of consultations as well as a wide ranging diagnostic of the why, what, and how of World Bank strategy and reform. Over the past five years, IEG evaluations…