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Water and Development: World Bank Support, 1997-2007 - (FTB)
This is a Fast Track Brief for the Water and Development: World Bank Support, 1997-2007, study. Almost a third of all Bank projects approved since 1997 have been water related. Water lending grew 55 percent in…
Do Health Sector-Wide Approaches Achieve Results? Emerging Evidence and Lessons from Six Countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania
This study distills evidence from six countries (Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, Malawi, and Tanzania) to address four questions regarding Sector-wide Approaches (SWAps) in the health sector: (1) Were the…
Tunisia - Country assistance strategy completion report (CASCR) for the period FY2005-FY2008 : IEG review
This review covers the FY05-08
Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and the CAS progress
report of 2008. The FY05-FY08 assistance strategy was
designed to help reduce unemployment,…
Global Program Review: The Stop TB Partnership
The Stop TB Partnership is a network of more than 900 international and national public and private sector organizations and individuals aiming to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) as a public health problem. Located in the…
El Salvador - Country partnership strategy completion report (CPSCR) review for the period FY2005-09 : IEG review
This review examines the
implementation of the FY2005-08 EI Salvador country
partnership strategy (CPS) and the 2008 CPS progress report
(PR), and evaluates the 2009 CPS completion…
Poverty Reduction Support Credits:
An Evaluation of World Bank Support - (FTB)
This is a Fast Track Brief for the Poverty Reduction Support Credits: An Evaluation of World Bank Support study. Poverty Reduction Support Credits were intended to help countries implement comprehensive, country-owned…
The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Crisis : Update on an Ongoing IEG Evaluation (Evaluation Brief)
IEG has undertaken an evaluation of the World Bank
Group's response to the economic crisis, focusing on developments since mid-2008. This note builds on IEG's 2008 Evaluation Brief,
Lessons from World Bank Group…
Gender and Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 2002–08 (FTB)
This is a Fast Track Brief for Gender and Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 2002â08, study. The evaluation finds that the Bank made progress in gender integration compared with an earlier IEG…
IDA Internal Controls: lEG Evaluation of Management's Remediation Program (Approach Paper Update)
IEG conducted an evaluation on IDA's internal controls in FY 2009. The evaluation found that there were material weaknesses in the controls over fraud and corruption in operations supported by IDA, and six significant…
Protected Area Effectiveness in Reducing Tropical Deforestation: A Global Analysis of the Impact of Protection Status
Tropical deforestation accounts for one-fifth to one-quarter of the total human contribution to greenhouse gases. Reduction of deforestation therefore contributes to climate change mitigation and may also provide…