In recent years the World Bank has greatly expanded its relationships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). The World Bank defines NGOs as private organizations...
This paper presents findings and lessons of the Bank's Private Sector Development (PSD) activities in the 1990s. It offers project and country-level evaluation results and provides a synthesis of studies...
Preliminary 2001 evaluation findings reported by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) and the Quality Assurance Group (QAG) raise questions regarding risk aversion in the Bank. Two sets of pressures...
Evaluation is an integral part of the World Bank's operational cycle. Evaluation assesses the results of the Bank's policies, programs, project, and processes, providing and objective basis for improvements...
La evaluación es una parte integral del ciclo operacional del Banco Mundial. La evaluación mide los resultados de las políticas, programas, proyectos y procesos del Banco, proporcionando una base objetiva...
Evaluation is an integral part of the World Bank's operational cycle. Evaluation assesses the results of the Bank's policies, programs, project, and processes, providing and objective basis for improvements...
To help develop trade and transport in borrowing countries, the World Bank has lent about $8 billion for ports since 1950. Port projects reduce transport costs by improving facilities, equipment, and services...
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is the evaluation of implementation of a project as agreed upon, as well as in regard to the beneficiary use of resources, the infrastructure and of provision of services...
Technical assistance is a key instrument for improving policies and project design, enhancing skills, and strengthening implementation capacity, and for institutional development in general. Evaluations...
Agricultural extension is the process of assisting farmers to become aware of, and to adopt, improved technology from any source to enhance production efficiency, income and welfare. Farmers, regardless...
Evaluation agencies exist at least nominally in many developing countries, and national auditing offices exist in almost all. Generally, though, the evaluation capacities do not play an important role...
Operation and maintenance are essential to provide a continuous safe water supply service calls for ample and reliable water sources and adequate capacity for treatment, transmission and distribution...
Adjustment lending originated from borrower's need to for short-term balance of payments support, to compensate for the drain of foreign reserves caused by adverse external shocks, particularly increase...
Area development projects are investment projects designed to develop a rural area largely to benefit the rural poor. These projects have rarely been targeted to benefit the poorest in the rural population...
This paper is based on OED evaluations of 40 railway projects conducted between 1985 and 1992. Of these 40 projects, only 21 (52 percent) were considered satisfactory. The projects were appraised 10-20...
