The Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Capacities to Improve Government Performance in Uganda
Growing concerns about poor value for money from Uganda's public services are focusing attention on the need for better understanding of development effectiveness -- what works, what does not, in which contexts, and why…
Latvia - Liepaja Environment Project
The outcome of the project was satisfactory, a result of the synergy generated by Latvia's partnership with the Bank, Nordic bilateral donors, the EU, and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Relevance was substantial given…
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…
Bangladesh - Agricultural Support Services, and Agricultural Research Management Projects
This audit downgrades the Implementation Completion Report ' s (ICR) assessment of the Agricultural Research Management Project (ARMP) to moderately unsatisfactory project outcomes, to an unlikely sustainability, and…
Ghana - Mining Sector Rehabilitation Project and the Mining Sector Development and Environment Project
The outcome of the Mining Sector Rehabilitation Project is rated moderately unsatisfactory; project sustainability is rated unlikely because the Minerals Commission, on of the project ' s successes, is in financial…
Benin - Borgou Region Pilot Rural Support Project
This report rates project outcome as satisfactory rather than highly satisfactory. given the importance that the LIL places on increasing communiy capacity, it is imperative that project performance indicators are able…
World Bank Operations Evaluation Department - The First 30 Years
The story of independent evaluation in the World Bank is more than 30 years in the making. But it is a story that has never been told, at least not fully. That is why during the course of 2002-03 the Bank's Operations…
Benin - Agricultural Services Restructuring Project, Community-Based Food Security Project, and the Second Rural Savings and Loans Cooperatives Rehabilitation Project
This assessment rates the overall outcome of the Agricultural Services Restructuring Project (PRSA) as moderately unsatisfactory. Some objectives were either not achieved or only partially achieved, such as…
Sharing Knowledge to Achieve Development Goals
In 1996 the World Bank launched a comprehensive knowledge-sharing initiative, based on the understanding that development knowledge is a global public good that belongs to everyone, and from which everyone should…
Toward Country-led Development:a Multi-partner Evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework
The Comprehensive Development Framework - launched by World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn in early 1999 - has become an important influence on the global development agenda. The core Comprehensive Development…