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Global Program Review: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
Over the course of almost two decades, ADEA has become the premier forum for educational policy development and agency cooperation in Africa. Its influence is largely a consequence of its growing legitimacy (it now…
Global Program Review: Population and Reproductive Health Capacity Building Program (PRHCBP)
PRHCBP has provided US$18.3 million in grants since 1999 to develop and document cost-effective interventions to improve sexual and reproductive health as well as strengthen the capacity of grass-roots NGOs to carry out…
Evaluation of World Bank Support for Public Sector Reform (FTB)
The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil service and…
Evaluation of World Bank Support for Public Sector Reform
The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil service and…
Evaluation of Bank Group Support for Water (Approach Paper)
Water has enormous productive and destructive potential. Research undertaken during the late 1960s and early 1970s indicated that the most cost effective way to improve health was to ensure an adequate supply of clean…
The Health Benefits of Transport Projects: A Review of the World Bank Transport Sector Lending Portfolio
This paper reviews the contribution of the World Bank's transport lending portfolio to health outcomes, as background for the Independent Evaluation Group's (IEG) evaluation of the Bank's support for health, nutrition…
How Influential Has Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) Been? An IEG Study of World Bank Support to PSIAs (Approach Paper)
The objective of this study is to assess the influence of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIAs) on Bank operations, their influence on country policies, and their contribution to country capacity for policy…
Lao - Southern Provinces Rural Electrification Project
The overall outcome rating is moderately satisfactory, because of EdL's unsatisfactory financial performance for most of the project's duration and the technical problems. Bank performance was satisfactory, and that of…
From Population Lending to HNP Results: The Evolution of the World Bank's Strategies in Health, Nutrition and Population
This paper reviews the evolution of the World Bank's strategies in the Health,
Nutrition, and Population (HNP) sector in relation to both internal and global events, as
background for the forthcoming evaluation by the…
IFC in Ukraine: 1993 – 2006: An Independent Country Impact Review
This country review, the first one disclosed by the Independent Evaluation Group of IFC (IEG) covers IFCâs assistance to Ukraine from fiscal year (FY)1993, when Ukraine became a member of IFC, through FY2006. The…