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Delivering the Millennium Development Goals To Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality
Improved outcomes for women and children—more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes—have broad individual, family, and societal benefits.
Mother and Child Health - Reaching 2015 Targets and Beyond
The 2012 UN MDG Report highlights that in 2008, 63% of women world-wide delivered their babies attended by skilled health personnel. The good side: this is up from 53% in 1990, but it still leaves 37% of women in…
Learning and Results in World Bank Operations
The purpose of this study is to promote a better understanding of how well has the World Bank learned in its lending operations, and what is the scope for improving how it generates, accesses, and uses learning and…
Learning and Results in World Bank Operations
The purpose of this study is to promote a better understanding of how well has the World Bank learned in its lending operations, and what is the scope for improving how it generates, accesses, and uses learning and…
Embrace All Evaluation Methods – Can We End the Debate?
The world’s leading development economists and evaluators have been engaged in a passionate argument for years on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) vs. Observational Studies. For those who want the four…
Indonesia - First, Second, and Third Phase of the Provincial Health Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) reviews the performance of three health projects in Indonesia, the (i) Provincial Health I (effective from August 2000 through December 2007); (ii) Provincial Health II…
IEG: Part of the Solution and not the Problem?
The World Bank Group is engaging in an exciting change in culture. Solutions will trump what President Jim Kim calls “mosquito bite projects” and the focus will be squarely on results to help client countries…
Tunisia - Natural Resources Management Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) assesses the development effectiveness of the Tunisia Natural Resources Management Project (1997-2004) and the Northwest Mountains and Forest Areas Project (2002-2009).…
2013 IEG Good Practice Awards
The IEG Good Practice Awards highlight exemplary design and implementation in World Bank projects and country programs, and excellence in self-evaluation in World Bank, IFC and MIGA operations. The purpose is to create…
The World Bank and Public Procurement: An Independent Evaluation (Volume I)
This evaluation of the World Bank's procurement systems and practices by IEG informs the Bank's ongoing self-assessment of its procurement system and provides suggestions for future directions. Given the critical role…