The main questions addressed in this Operations Evaluation Department (OED) study are: (1) what has happened to educational outputs (school attendance and learning); (2) what are the main determinants...
This report evaluates the impact of World Bank supported projects for agricultural extension services in Kenya. Since 1982, the training and visit (T&V) management system was adopted for extension services...
This study assesses the impacts of municipal development projects (MDPs) on the institutional capacity building of local governments for fiscal and financial management and for planning and implementation...
This is a report on the Bank's role, past and current, in supporting agricultural development in Tanzania. It aims to assess and review current Bank performance, and to make suggestions for improving ongoing...
The report finds that operations in the health, nutrition, and population sector targeted important and relevant concerns, but that it is less clear that the approaches used contributed to improving the...
The evaluation found that while the various schemes are helping to reduce the deficit in rural water supply and increasing water coverage, they have done little to foster local organizational capacity...
The results of this study provide strong evidence that user involvement in all aspects of water supply system development, improves project implementation, and operation and maintenance sustainability...
This report on the project's performance in developing pastoral cooperative associations (PCAs), reviews their development, current position, and the issues arising in their continued evolution two years...
This impact evaluation report on the World Bank Support for Small and Medium Industries (SMIs) in the Philippines used a survey of more than 300 firms and 17 participating financial institutions (PFIs)...
Between 1980 and 1996 the World Bank provided Ecuador with US$140.6 million in financing for small scale enterprises (SSEs) through four loans. The last project closed in FY96. The principal aim of the...
The resettlement component of the Kedung Ombo project has been among the most controversial of big dam projects and the only one with documented evidence of military intervention and coercion of households...
This impact evaluation report on three rural water supply (RWS) projects in Paraguay provided loans to the National Environmental Sanitation Service (SENASA) with "juntas de saneamiento" (nonprofit committees...
This impact evaluation analyzes the effect of World Bank interventions in the agricultural sector within Malawi, a country where the majority of households depend, in whole or in part, on agriculture for...
This report evaluates the SCARP Transition Pilot Project for Pakistan. The outcome of the project was satisfactory. It fully achieved its ambitious institutional objectives. Responsibility for groundwater-based...
The Bank Dairy Projects have adopted two distinct strategies. The first focuses on remedying a production shortage by providing new and genetically superior purebred dairy stock, often imported. The second...
The World Bank Support for Small and Medium Industries (SMI) in Sri Lanka was achieved. In sum, the impact of the Bank has been satisfactory. Given these results, the projects' outcomes should be seen...
Severe flooding in 1982 caused considerable damage to Sfax, a major Tunisian city, and its suburbs. Experts estimated the probability of re-occurrence of a similar flood at 0.66 percent-in layman's terms...
The projects helped place municipalities at the forefront of urban service provision, and demonstrated that well designed physical interventions can lead to sustained improvement in living conditions for...
This study deals with feeder roads in the State of Bahia. The macroeconomic context is that of Brazil and Bahia. Brazil's economy experienced large swings in the last three decades, with high growth rates...
This report evaluates the Kurunegala and Second Rural Development Project for Sri Lanka. It assesses the outcome, impact, and sustainability of the major productive components of the two projects. From...