Documents & Reports
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An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Support to Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2015–24 (Approach Paper) (English)
This evaluation assesses the World Bank Group’s contributions to supporting electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa during 2015–24. Electricity access is an end user’s ability to use an energy supply...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 197336 Document Date: February 19, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Indonesia Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper) (English)
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to Indonesia between FY 2013 and FY23. The evaluation will focus on the Bank Group’s contribution to...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 196476 Document Date: January 15, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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An Evaluation of the World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence 2020-2025 (Approach Paper) (English)
Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) have upended development progress. Overlapping and mutually reinforcing crises, including worsening climate challenges, ideological polarization and extremism, growing...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 196477 Document Date: January 14, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Implementing the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework : A Developmental Evaluation (Approach Paper) (English)
The World Bank adopted a new Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) in 2016 that aims to protect people and the environment from potential adverse project impacts while promoting sustainable development...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 195521 Document Date: November 6, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Biodiversity for a Livable Planet : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support for Biodiversity (FY15-24) (Approach Paper) (English)
Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and scale. The biodiversity crisis is a threat to development with far-reaching implications...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 193370 Document Date: August 26, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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World Bank Group Support to Ghana, Fiscal Years 2013–23 (Approach Paper) (English)
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of World Bank Group support to Ghana in achieving its development objectives between fiscal years (FY)13 and FY23. The evaluation period...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 193299 Document Date: August 7, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Early-Stage Evaluation of the Multiphase Programmatic Approach (Approach Paper) (English)
The multiphase programmatic approach (MPA) is a way of structuring a long, large, or complex engagement—typically over 8–10 years—either as a set of smaller linked operations or phases using investment...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 191121 Document Date: June 13, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2024 (Concept Note) (English)
The Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) report is the annual review of the Bank Group’s operational and country effectiveness that draws on evidence from the Independent Evaluation Group...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 191115 Document Date: May 20, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Learning in World Bank Lending (Approach Paper) (English)
The World Bank has a comparative advantage in development knowledge that is valued by countries and its partners. This knowledge sets it apart from other development organizations and helps it attract...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 187947 Document Date: February 23, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Ethiopia Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper) (English)
The objective of this Country Program Evaluation (CPE) is to assess how well the World Bank Group supported Ethiopia in addressing key challenges that constrained its development and how that support adapted...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 186197 Document Date: November 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Nepal Country Program Evaluation - World Bank Group Support to Nepal, Fiscal Years 2014–23 (Approach Paper) (English)
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to Nepal in achieving its development objectives between 2014 and 2023. The evaluation will focus on...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 186196 Document Date: November 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Addressing Gender Inequalities: An Evaluation of World Bank and IFC Support (Approach Paper) (English)
This Approach Paper proposes an independent evaluation of the results achieved by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in supporting countries (understood as governments, private...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 185416 Document Date: October 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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International Finance Corporation Platforms Approach: Addressing Development Challenges at Scale - An Independent Evaluation (Approach Paper) (English)
Recurring development challenges and new compounding crises affecting client countries and firms constrain the ambition of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to contribute to attainment of the...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 184009 Document Date: July 28, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response - Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation of the World Bank’s Contribution (Approach Paper) (English)
Interconnected and often devastating covariate shocks are a threat to human development. Covariate shocks are shocks that affect large numbers of people or communities at once and can be natural, economic...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 184379 Document Date: July 24, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Focused Assessment of the International Development Association’s Private Sector Window : An Update to the 2021 Early-Stage Assessment by the Independent Evaluation Group (Approach Paper) (English)
Attracting private capital and developing the private sector in low-income countries are challenging. The challenges involved in mobilizing private capital and developing the private sector in many IDA...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 184010 Document Date: June 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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World Bank Support to Georgia, Fiscal Years 2014-23 - Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper) (English)
The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will seek to assess how well the Bank Group–supported strategy was aligned with Georgia’s main development challenges and how effective the Bank Group’s support was...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 182772 Document Date: June 8, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Evaluation of the World Bank’s Support to Procurement and Its Principles (Approach Paper) (English)
In 2015, the World Bank approved a new procurement framework, which aimed to reform its approach to procurement. The World Bank’s reform was intended to reform its procurement systems and the way procurement...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 181001 Document Date: March 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Making Waves : An Evaluation of the World Bank’s Support for the Blue Economy (2012–23) (Approach Paper) (English)
Marine and coastal resources are critical for human survival. The economies of many coastal developing countries and small island developing states rely heavily on maritime industries, associated trade...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 181002 Document Date: March 13, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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World Bank Group Support to Somalia, Fiscal Years 2013–22 – Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper) (English)
Somalia is today among the poorest and most fragile countries in the world, facing myriad development challenges related to ongoing conflict, climate change, food insecurity, natural disasters, and displacement...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 180651 Document Date: March 3, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Jobs and Labor Market Reform through International Development Association Financing (Approach Paper) (English)
The International Development Association (IDA) has included jobs as a special theme since the 17th Replenishment of IDA (IDA17) in 2014, when it explicitly recognized the role played by labor markets...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 180650 Document Date: March 2, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank