Program for Results: An Early Stage Assessment of the Process and Effects of a New Lending Instrument
This evaluation assesses the early experience with the design and implementation of Program for Results (PforR) operations and identifies lessons and recommendations to strengthen this new instrument.
China - Second Tianjin Urban Development and Environment Project and Chongqing Small Cities Infrastructure Improvement Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report assesses two urban development projects in China, the Second Tianjin Urban Development and Environment Project (2003 to 2012) and the Chongqing Small Cities Infrastructure…
Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Support for Water Supply and Sanitation Services, with Focus on the Poor FY2007-2016 (Approach Paper)
Access to adequate, reliable, affordable, and safe water and sanitation
services is fundamental to human development and welfare. This in not just a goal in its own
right, but also critical to other development…
India - Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Community-Based Tank Management Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report assesses the development effectiveness of India’s Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Community-Based Tank Management Project, which was approved in 2007 and closed in 2016. The…
Uzbekistan - Irrigation and Drainage Interventions to Support the Agriculture Sector
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group on the Ferghana Valley Water Resources Management Project Phase I and the Uzbekistan Rural…
Philippines - Water Districts Development Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) evaluates the Philippines Water Districts Development Project (WDDP) implemented by the World Bank from fiscal 1997 to 2006. The project was designed to address the…
Estonia - Haapsalu and Matsalu Bays Environmental Project
The audit concurs with both the Implementation Completion Report (ICR) and Evaluation Summary (ES) ratings of satisfactory project outcome, likely sustainability, and substantial institutional development impacts, as…
Uzbekistan - Water Supply, Sanitation and Health Project; and Bukhara and Samarkand Water Supply Project
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) of two projects in the urban
and rural water and sanitation sectors of Uzbekistan supported by the World Bank and
other development partners.
The Water Supply,…
Introducing a Framework for Evaluating Service Delivery in Sector Evaluations
This paper serves three purposes. First, it defines service delivery and its key concepts and features as well as provides examples of how the World Bank Group has supported service delivery. The paper does not attempt…
Peru – Sierra Rural Development Project
This is the Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) for the Peru Sierra Rural Development Project (P079165). The assessment will contribute to learning from projects that seek to increase the integration of small-…