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Selectivity in Country Strategies: The Evidence
This paper is a first attempt at piecing together the various strands of evidence to understand the role and the practice of selectivity in the WBG's country strategies. It explores the link between selectivity and…
Past and Future--Bank-IFC Cooperation at the Country Strategy Level
The WBG has decided to overhaul the Group's approach to country engagement with a view to increasing its effectiveness and development impact. An important tenet of the new approach is to bring in IFC's private sector…
Closing the Gender Gap with Social Safety Nets?
An IEG report on the gender implications of social safety net projects finds that even when these interventions don’t aim to have an impact on gender equality, they usually do.
Social Safety Nets and Gender: Learning from Impact Evaluations and World Bank Projects
Gender equality is widely accepted as an essential component of effective development, and in the past two decades it has progressively taken center stage in the international development community. As the third…
Social Safety Nets and Gender Panel Discussion
The main goal of SSN interventions is to reduce current and future poverty by increasing household income and consumption and improving children’s health and education.
Opportunities and Challenges from Working in Partnership: Findings from IEG’s Work on Partnership Programs and Trust Funds
Partnerships and trust funds are big business for the World Bank Group. It participates in around 126 global partnership programs and administers more than 1000 trust funds which have become a significant source of…
Better Together? Seven Guiding Principles for Evaluating Partnership Programs
Ensuring everyone involved in a partnership evaluation gets what they expect
What makes evaluations influential?
Evaluations that make a difference address the issue of influence throughout the process
Cabo Verde - Country partnership strategy completion report (CPSCR) review for the period FY2009-12 : IEG review
This review examines the implementation of the FY2009-12 country partnership strategy (CPS) of FY2009 and the CPS progress report (CPSPR) of FY2011, and assesses the CPS completion report (CPSCR). The Bank's CPS…
Evidence, Evaluation and Effective Government
Evaluation has a greater role to play in informing the debates and decisions of parliamentarians