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Assessing International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Poverty Focus and Results
IFC’s interventions are designed to contribute to growth, although it has been challenging for the Corporation to integrate distributional aspects in projects. Fewer than half the projects reviewed included evidence of…
World Bank Country-Level Engagement on Governance and Anticorruption
This evaluation is concerned with the relevance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group's 2007 Governance and Anticorruption (GAC) strategy and its early implementation efforts with regard to country operations. It…
Trust Fund Support for Development
This IEG evaluation assesses the value of the trust fund vehicle as a way of delivering aid and the effectiveness and efficiency of the deployment of trust fund resources. In addition, the evaluation assesses the Bank’s…
Managing Forest Resources for Sustainable Development
A decade ago, the World Bank Group shifted its approach in the forest sector by putting poverty alleviation and sustainable economic development on equal footing with conservation. It was a bold move given the risks and…
Afghanistan Country Program Evaluation, 2002–11: Evaluation of the World Bank Group Program
Despite extremely difficult security conditions, which deteriorated markedly after 2006, the World Bank Group has commendably established and sustained a large program of support to the country.
Capturing Technology for Development
Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this potential depends on an enabling environment for their production, diffusion, and use. Otherwise, technology can…
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…