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Strengthening Tunisian Municipalities to Foster Local Urban Development
The Municipal Sector Investment Project, partly financed by a $75 million World Bank loan made in 1992, marked the successful beginning of a decentralization effort in Tunisia to strengthen municipalities and transform…
Chile's Model for Educating Poor Children
Chilean schools benefited from the country's economic success (1997 per capita income, US$4,820), universal primary edu-cation, political stability, and few natural and other physical disasters. Chile's municipalities…
Community Forestry in Nepal
Although Nepal is among the world's poorest countries, it is a global leader in engaging communities in forest protection and management. Nepal's community forestry program, more than two decades old, has helped…
Developing African Capacity for Monitoring and Evaluation - Full Proceedings
Developing African Capacity for Monitoring and Evaluation reports on a seminar and workshop held in Johannesburg in September. It outlines recent progress and the latest thinking about M&E in the African and donor…
Paraguay: Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) examines World Bank assistance to Paraguay from 1989-99. Until the mid-1980s, Paraguay experienced long periods of sustained growth based on expansion of agricultural production…
Evaluating Public Sector Reform: Guidelines for Assessing Country-Level impact of Structural Reform and Capacity Building in the Public Sector
Recent sectoral and country reviews of World Bank assistance by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) have concluded that support for institutional development (ID) efforts - in both sector-specific and public…
Mexico: Country Assistance Evaluation
The report evaluates the Bank assistance to Mexico during FY89-00, which during the period was initially focused on structural reforms, shifted to investment lending, to then quickly respond to the crisis, and finally…
Malawi - GEF/SADC Lake Malawi / Nyasa Biodiversity Conservation Project
The audit rates the project outcome
as moderately satisfactory, with an unlikely sustainability,
and modest institutional development impacts. Both
performances by the Bank, and…
Lesotho: Joint AfDB-World Bank Country Assistance Evaluation (REACH)
Lesotho - landlocked by and economically dependent on South Africa
- experienced rapid growth dur-ing much of the 1990s, spurred in part by the World Bankâsupported Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), but poverty…
Turkey - Privatization Implementation Assistance and Social Safety Net Project
The audit rates project outcomes as
unsatisfactory, because the project failed to meet its
original development objectives, given the lack of strong
political will to advance…