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Land rights and the systems that administer them can vary significantly across the world and within countries (World Bank 2003). For a number of reasons, land rights may be unclear or insecure. Securing land rights…

This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) looks at the Mozambique Market-Led Smallholder Development in the Zambezi Valley Project. The project, cofinanced by the Global Environment Facility, was aimed at…

This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) of Phase I and II of the 3-phase, 15-year Ethiopia Pastoral Community Development Program (PCDP). The projects were approved by the World Bank's Executive Board…

To optimize value-for-money, it is essential to understand how evaluation influences change

Colombia is an upper middle income country whose poverty fell significantly over the past five years although it remained at 28.5 percent in 2014, with extreme poverty of 8.4 percent, in a context of strong growth.…

Bangladesh has had a difficult political history. The country is densely populated and subject to frequent natural disasters. Nevertheless, from a very inauspicious beginning it has made remarkable progress in poverty…

Are we heading into a big split in the evaluation profession?

Early development plays a major role in a child’s school performance, health, and socialization and future earnings. IEG’s evaluation of the World Bank Group’s support for early childhood development examines the…

This brief captures the lessons learned from evaluating the World Bank’s Indonesia Climate Change Development Policy Loan (CCDPL).

A number of recent studies by IEG and the European Commission provide evidence of the positive impacts of general budget support, as well as insights into why in some country cases it has failed.