01. Annual Reports & Independent Evaluations
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Tanzania Country Program Evaluation: Approach Paper
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022-10-03)The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) for Tanzania assesses the World Bank Group’s effectiveness and relevance in its work to help Tanzania address its key development challenges. The CPE will encompass two Bank Group strategy periods covering fiscal years (FY)12–16 and FY18–22. The evaluation aims to inform the next Bank Group Country Partnership Framework for Tanzania. -
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FY 2022 Botswana Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022-07)The Country Opinion Survey in Botswana assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Botswana 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 Botswana on: (1) their views regarding the general environment in Botswana; (2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Botswana; (3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Botswana; and (4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Botswana. -
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FY 2022 China Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022-07)The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in China 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 China on: (1) their views regarding the general environment in China; (2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in China; (3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in China; and (4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in China. -
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The World Bank Group in Chad, Fiscal Years 2010–20: Country Program Evaluation
(Washington, DC : World Bank, 2022-06-28)This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the World Bank Group's development effectiveness in Chad over the past decade within a context of high fragility and extreme poverty. The report covers the implementation of the Interim Strategy Note (2010–12) and the Country Partnership Framework (16–20). This CPE draws lessons to inform the design and implementation of the next partnership strategy with Chad. IEG finds that World Bank Group's support to Chad was aligned with government priorities and World Bank diagnostics. Bank Group support helped advance several human development objectives. It especially increased access to health services, primary and secondary education, and social protection in targeted areas as well as gender equality. Notwithstanding the challenges inherent in working in a fragile and conflict-affected situation, the performance of the Bank Group portfolio in Chad was weak. Timely budget support helped stave off an imminent fiscal crisis but did not achieve sustained reform. Few results were achieved in agriculture, infrastructure, and public resource management. Overall, performance was undermined by procurement delays, high turnover of government counterparts, and a lack of continuity in World Bank staff working on Chad. The following three lessons are offered for consideration. First, timely and targeted analytical work is necessary to inform priority setting, policy dialogue, and the design of reforms. Given the prevalence of capacity and absorptive constraints, it is essential to strategically prioritize analytical work to help identify and understand the most binding constraints to development gains and inform efforts to address them. Second, procurement challenges warrant greater attention to address the underlying political and bureaucratic obstacles, which will require a higher-level dialogue with the government. Lastly, although working in Chad is challenging, it is critical to strengthen incentives to attract and retain talent. This is needed to improve continuity of engagement with country authorities and compensate for weak client capacity, including the high turnover of government officials. -
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FY 2022 Cameroon Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022-06)The Country Opinion Survey in Cameroon assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Cameroon 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 Cameroon on: (1) their views regarding the general environment in Cameroon; (2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Cameroon; (3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Cameroon; and (4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Cameroon. -
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FY 2022 Sierra Leone Country Opinion Survey Report
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022-06)The Country Opinion Survey in Sierra Leone assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Sierra Leone 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 Sierra Leone on: (1) their views regarding the general environment in Sierra Leone; (2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Sierra Leone; (3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Sierra Leone; and (4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Sierra Leone. -
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FY 2021 Burundi Country Opinion Survey Report
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022-01)The Country Opinion Survey in Burundi assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Burundi 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 Burundi on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Burundi; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Burundi; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Burundi; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Burundi. -
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The World Bank Group in Madagascar, Fiscal Years 2007–21: Country Program Evaluation
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022)This Country Program Evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the Bank Group’s engagement in Madagascar between fiscal years 2007 and 2021 and surfaces lessons to inform the design and implementation of the next Bank Group–supported partnership strategy with Madagascar. The evaluation reviews the evolution of the Bank Group’s engagement strategy and its implementation over and lessons from experience. It contains a more in depth assessment of Bank Group support in two areas that represent core development challenges: (i) elite capture and (ii) development of rural areas. Bank Group support was increasingly relevant to Madagascar’s core development constraints and contributed to significant progress in several areas. World Bank support contributed to modernizing the country’s tax and customs revenue administrations, improving revenue collection, and generating local revenues, as well as to improved subnational public financial management and decentralized management of natural resources and land certificates. In terms of rural development, Bank Group support contributed to short-term increases in agricultural production and greater food security, the development of value chains, and the government’s increased ability to mitigate the impacts of shocks on Madagascar’s most vulnerable populations to preserve critical human capital. Overall progress was hampered by limited success in designing interventions to avoid misuse by a few high-status individuals. In rural areas, overall progress in increasing small farmers productivity fell short because the adoption of technology to increase agricultural productivity did not adequately target smallholder production systems and did not provide sufficient incentives for farmers in the forest frontier to change their land use practices. -
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The World Bank Annual Report 2022: Helping Countries Adapt to a Changing World
(Washington, DC : World Bank, 2022)The Annual Report is prepared by the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)--collectively known as the World Bank--in accordance with the by-laws of the two institutions. The President of the IBRD and IDA and the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors submit the Report, together with the accompanying administrative budgets and audited financial statements, to the Board of Governors. -
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FY 2021 Comoros Country Opinion Survey Report
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-10)The Country Opinion Survey in Comoros assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Comoros 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 Comoros on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Comoros; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Comoros; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Comoros; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Comoros.