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Ghana - Health Sector Program Support and Second Health and Population Projects
The main finding of this evaluation is that the first health SWAp in Ghana has strengthened sector stewardship and sector capacity, but has not culminated in the achievement of most health service delivery and health…
Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Health, Nutrition, and Population
The proposed HNP evaluation would provide an opportunity to evaluate a number of issues that were explicit objectives, strategies, or challenges in the 1997 strategy and that remain part of the 2007 strategy: a)The…
Nigeria: Country Assistance Evaluation (Approach Paper)
The CAE will cover the strategy, program and outcomes of Bank assistance over nine years. The period starting on July 1,1998 and ending on June 30,2007, will be the focus of the CAE. This is the period of the…
How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government
A growing number of governments are working to improve their performance by creating systems to measure and help them understand their performance. These systems for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are used to…
Evaluation of Poverty Reduction Support Credits (Approach Paper)
The World Bank introduced Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs) in 2001 as a vehicle to help IDA borrowers implement their poverty reduction strategies. IEG's evaluation will aim to assess whether Poverty Reduction…
Mauritania - Country assistance strategy completion report (CASCR) for the period FY2003-FY2007 : IEG review
The FY03 Country Assistance Strategy
or CAS was approved in a climate of confidence that
Mauritania had proven its worth as a reliable IDA client,
ready to graduate to accelerated…
Nepal - Multimodal Transit Project
The Nepal Multimodal Transit Project had the following ratings: outcome was moderately unsatisfactory; risk to development outcome was significant; Bank performance was moderately satisfactory; and borrower performance…
Development Actions and the Rising Incidence of Disasters
This Evaluation Brief brings attention to World
Bank investments at risk. It alerts task managers
to increases in the number and severity of flood
and windstorm disasters resulting from environmental
degradation,…
Disasters, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and Future Directions
This paper explores the links among natural disasters, climate change, and economic development. It attempts to outline a framework for thinking about these links. The paper summarizes the limited knowledge of the…
Governance and Anti-Corruption: Ways to Enhance the World Bank's Impact
This note summarizes suggestions for enhancing
the Bank's work on helping countries deal
with poor governance and corruption and in
ensuring that funds disbursed by the World Bank
are protected from abuse. Its purpose…