01. Annual Reports & Independent Evaluations

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FY 2024 Uruguay Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-20) World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Uruguay assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Uruguay perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Uruguay on: (1) their views regarding the general environment in Uruguay; (2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Uruguay; (3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Uruguay; and (4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Uruguay.
FY 2024 Costa Rica Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-20) World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Costa Rica assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Costa Rica perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Costa Rica on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Costa Rica; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Costa Rica; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Costa Rica; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Costa Rica.
FY 2024 Brazil Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-20) World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Brazil assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Brazil perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Brazil on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Brazil; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Brazil; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Brazil; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Brazil.
FY 2024 Poland Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-18) World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Poland assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Poland perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Poland on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Poland; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Poland; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Poland; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Poland.
FY 2024 Mauritania Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-15) World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Mauritania assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Mauritania perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Mauritania on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Mauritania; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Mauritania; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Mauritania; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Mauritania.
Evaluation Insight Note: Agriculture Innovation and Technology in World Bank Projects
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-12) World Bank
This Evaluation Insight Note (EIN) aims to contribute to the World Bank’s goal of encouraging the use of data, digital technology, and innovation towards transforming agri-food systems in client countries. The EIN was guided by the overall question: “How are World Bank agriculture and irrigation projects using technologies and what insights can be drawn from them” In answering this question, the EIN draws from a portfolio identification and review of 158 active and 113 closed projects (FY16-23) World Bank agriculture and irrigation projects to describe the extent and utilization of agricultural technologies. It supplemented the findings from the review with insights drawn from four project evaluations (Project Performance Assessment Reports) prepared by IEG in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cote d’Ivoire, and Vietnam, which were selected because of their likely lessons on agriculture technology. The portfolio and systematic review provided the basis for seven main insights on coverage and nature of technologies used in World Bank agriculture projects, demand-based technological solutions, technology diffusion, collaboration, and investment in enabling environment factors, among others. (1) The World Bank Agriculture and Irrigation portfolio shows limited coverage of advanced technologies. (2) The technologies that are prevalent in projects are mainly focused on increasing agricultural productivity with limited focus on technologies for facilitating market linkages. (3) Among the technologies promoted in Bank agriculture and irrigation projects, some technologies, and applications such GIS, early warning systems and MIS are more concentrated than others. (4) Combining demand-based technological solutions with training and technical assistance supported uptake of those solutions. (5) Technology diffusion worked well when there was strong collaboration between key research and extension agencies, each with well-defined roles and responsibilities in the projects. (6) When technology dissemination efforts are combined with investments in enabling environment factors such as infrastructure (i.e., roads, markets), they facilitated technology adoption. (7) Building sustainable institutional models – key for technology uptake and use – continue to be challenging in Bank supported projects.
Independent Evaluation Group Validation of the Management Action Record 2024
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-08) World Bank
The Management Action Record (MAR) is integral to the World Bank Group’s accountability framework. It supports accountability, learning, and adaptation for the Bank Group management’s implementation of IEG recommendations. In fiscal year 2024, the Bank Group's management and IEG jointly updated the MAR framework to prioritize engagement on recommendations, better define pathways for implementation, and enhance the involvement of management champions. Applying these three elements to prioritized recommendations enables a synthetic discussion on overall progress against recommendations. This year’s MAR tracks progress on 77 recommendations lodged within the 28 IEG evaluations reviewed by the Board of Executive Directors’ Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) between fiscal years 2019 and 2023. The report presents IEG’s synthesis of progress toward achieving IEG evaluations’ intended outcomes and its assessment of the evidence in management’s MAR report Better Results through Learning and Adaptation for a Better World Bank Group: The FY24 Management Action Record.
World Bank Group Scorecard FY24
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-07) World Bank
This document presents three different views of the WBG scorecard: 1. Scorecard view presents all data at the WBG level for a set of 50 indicators (8 Vision indicators, 22 Client Context indicators, and 20 WBG Results indicators). It provides an overview of the WBG's performance and progress towards its goals. The Scorecard is released at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in October 2024. 2. Disaggregation by female, Youth and Fragility and Conflict Situations view breaks down the WBG Results indicators by WBG institutions, focusing on gender, youth and FCS disaggregated results. 3. Other disaggregation view provides a breakdown of data based on select criteria such as regions, income groups, Small States, SIDS, LDCs, and disability-inclusiveness. These disaggregation criteria allow for a more detailed analysis of the WBG’s results.
An Evaluation of World Bank and International Finance Corporation Engagement of Gender Equality over the Past 10 Years
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-07) World Bank
Gender equality has been a high-level commitment of the World Bank Group for at least two decades. In its gender strategy for fiscal years 2016-23, the Bank Group committed to maximizing the impact of its efforts to close gender gaps in key development outcomes, while steering activities and their monitoring toward measurable results. Moreover, gender has been an International Development Association (IDA) special theme since the 16th Replenishment that channeled financial resources to address gender inequalities in IDA countries. This evaluation assesses World Bank Group support to countries to address gender inequalities between fiscal years 2012 and 2023. It analyzes the factors that enabled and constrained success, includes three recommendations and provides lessons that are relevant for implementation of the recently approved Gender Strategy 2024-2030. The evaluation’s findings underpin three recommendations for the Bank Group to improve its country-driven engagement for gender equality and the achievement of results. (i) Strengthen the country-driven engagement model for gender equality, with greater selectivity, prioritization, and coordination of the country portfolio activities supporting gender equality objectives and an increased focus on implementation. (ii) Develop the capacity of World Bank and IFC monitoring and evaluation systems to track and account for complex gender results; incentivize the achievement of outcomes at the operational, country, and corporate levels; and regularly report on progress. (iii) Redefine the current Bank Group gender architecture to specify roles and responsibilities; avoid overlaps and replication of functions; strengthen under resourced tasks, especially implementation of gender-related activities and support to country engagement; improve capacities; and enforce accountability.
Confronting the Learning Crisis: Lessons from World Bank Support for Basic Education, 2012–22 An Independent Evaluation
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-10-31) World Bank
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, learning poverty, defined as the share of children younger than 10 years of age who have not achieved minimum reading proficiency, as adjusted by the proportion of children who are out of school, stood at 91 percent in low-income countries compared to 9 percent in high-income countries. The school shutdowns implemented in response to the pandemic aggravated learning losses while extending and deepening a long-standing development challenge of low learning outcomes and persistent learning poverty in the basic education systems of low- and middle-income countries. Improving the quality of basic education and learning outcomes for all is a much more difficult and expensive pursuit than improving access to education for all. The issues involved in improving the quality of basic education are multilayered, including social, structural, logistical, and institutional matters that require a sophisticated analysis, understanding, and approach. This evaluation assesses the World Bank’s contribution to improving learning outcomes in basic education—defined as primary and lower secondary education— over the 2012–22 decade. It pays particular attention to the extent to which the World Bank has adopted a systems approach to its support for basic education as advocated in Learning for All: Investing in People’s Knowledge and Skills to Promote Development—World Bank Group Education Strategy 2020 and as reinforced since the publication of the 2018 World Development Report. Drawing on portfolio and document analyses, interviews, country case studies, literature, and secondary data analysis, the evaluation identifies lessons and presents recommendations to inform any future education sector strategy.