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Guidance Manual for Evaluators: ICR Reviews for Development Policy Financing (DPOs)
This manual provides guidance to evaluators preparing ICRRs on ICRs for development policy finance operations. It provides guidance for, and gives examples of, how to structure ICRRs with respect to content,…
Contribution and Effectiveness of Trade Facilitation Measures: Structured Literature Review
This literature review has two main objectives. The first is to survey the findings on effectiveness of trade facilitation measures on outcomes such as trade flows, and trade costs. The second objective is to gain a…
Creating Markets to Leverage the Private Sector for Sustainable Development and Growth
With a strong learning focus, this evaluation is intended to inform the implementation of IFC’s corporate strategy (IFC 3.0) and the contributing roles of the World Bank and MIGA to that strategy
Recent World Bank Experience with RRAs & Operational Programming in FCV Countries
Stocktaking of Implementation of Recommendations from IEG Evaluations of Fragility, Conflict and Violence
The purpose of this stocktaking report is to assess: i) the extent to which World Bank diagnostic work…
Guidelines for Reviewing World Bank Implementation Completion and Results Reports: A Manual for Evaluators
The Implementation Completion and Results Report (ICR) is one of the main instruments of self-evaluation of the World Bank. It is prepared by the World Bank at the close of every IDA or IBRD-funded operation or, in the…
World Bank Group Joint Projects: A Review of Two Decades of Experience
This first systematic stocktaking by IEG of joint or co-financed projects within the World Bank Group offers insight on both benefits of, and challenges in, developing, structuring, supervising, monitoring and…
Crisis Response and Resilience to Systemic Shocks: Lessons from IEG Evaluations
The topic of resilience has gained prominence on the development agenda. Many of the Sustainable Development Goals relate to resilience.1 In the World Bank’s new strategy adopted in October 2013—achieving the twin goals…
Crisis Response and Resilience to Systemic Shocks: Lessons from IEG Evaluations
This synthesis of existing evaluations seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks.
Tax Revenue Mobilization - Lessons from World Bank Group Support for Tax Reform
This learning note reviews existing IEG evaluative evidence on the Bank Group’s support to tax policy and administration reform produced by the Independent Evaluation Group over FY2005-15. It identifies the drivers of…
Women's Empowerment in Rural Community-Driven Development Projects
This report analyzes gender features of long-standing World Bank rural community-driven development (CDD) projects, their response to women’s specific constraints, and their impacts on women’s economic, political, and…