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El Salvador - Earthquake Reconstruction Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) on the El Salvador Earthquake Reconstruction Project (Loan 2873-ES) is unusual in that it looks at a project begun 16 years ago and closed now more than 7 years. This…
Croatia - Highway Sector and Emergency Transport and Mine Clearing Projects
The audit differs from the Implementation Completion Report ratings as follows: the Highway Sector Project (HSP) outcome is rated unsatisfactory contrary to the ICR satisfactory rating, yet concurs with both ratings of…
Evaluation of the International Program for
Development Evaluation (IPDET)
The Operations Evaluation Division (OED) at the World Bank, in partnership with the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management at Carleton University, launched the International Program for Development Evaluation (IPDET)…
Turkey - Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) for the Turkey Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project (Ln. 3567-TR) for which a loan of US$77 million was approved on March 11, 1993. The project closed…
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Emergency Recovery, Emergency Landmines Clearance, Emergency Demobilization and Reintegration, Local Initiative, and Republika Srpska Reconsturction Assistance Projects
The objectives of the Emergency Recovery Project (ERP) were substantially relevant to both Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH ' s) own reconstruction needs and policy and to the Bank ' s own strategy in support of post-…
Evaluation of World Bank Assistance on Trade (Approach Paper)
Three main factors underpin the Trade Assistance Evaluation. First, while several evaluations of Bank assistance on trade for individual projects or specific programs occurred up to the early nineties, no comprehensive…
World Bank Support for Public Sector Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa: An OED Evaluation (Approach Paper)
The Operations Evaluation Department (OED) will conduct an independent assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of Bank support for public sector capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past ten years, and…
Promoting Improvements in Ghana's Basic Education (Reach)
Delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana's basic education system - building classrooms and supplying textbooks - has had a substantial impact on higher enrollments and better learning outcomes. The Bank's support for…
Rwanda Country Assistance Evaluation (Reach)
During the 1990s, Rwanda was overwhelmed by ethnic strife, which led to civil war in 1990-93, and to the 1994 genocide, with the loss of 12 percent of the population and dislocation of many more. GDP dropped by 50…
Brazil Country Assistance Evaluation (Reach)
During the 1990s Brazil was able to stabilize its economy and articulate a clear development agenda. Poverty rates declined, especially due to success with stabilization. Social indicators improved significantly,…