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Concept Note For an IEG Complex Learning Product on Environmental and Social Risk Mitigation in DPOs
Development policy lending differs markedly from investment lending. The two instruments diverge in terms of what is supported by the loan, how development impact is intended to be achieved, the mechanism for…
Making a Difference in the Year of Evaluation
A three-part recipe for strengthening evaluation capacity
Evaluation: Does More Money Mean More Value?
Looking beyond the price when assessing the cost of an evaluation
The Kaleidoscope Effect
By offering a new perspective, evaluation can provide insights that might otherwise have been missed.
Selectivity in Country Strategies: The Evidence
This paper is a first attempt at piecing together the various strands of evidence to understand the role and the practice of selectivity in the WBG's country strategies. It explores the link between selectivity and…
Past and Future--Bank-IFC Cooperation at the Country Strategy Level
The WBG has decided to overhaul the Group's approach to country engagement with a view to increasing its effectiveness and development impact. An important tenet of the new approach is to bring in IFC's private sector…
Closing the Gender Gap with Social Safety Nets?
An IEG report on the gender implications of social safety net projects finds that even when these interventions don’t aim to have an impact on gender equality, they usually do.
Social Safety Nets and Gender: Learning from Impact Evaluations and World Bank Projects
Gender equality is widely accepted as an essential component of effective development, and in the past two decades it has progressively taken center stage in the international development community. As the third…
Social Safety Nets and Gender Panel Discussion
The main goal of SSN interventions is to reduce current and future poverty by increasing household income and consumption and improving children’s health and education.