Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support

This evaluation looks broadly at WBG engagement FY90-07

• Broad coverage: World Bank, IFC, and MIGA
• Evaluation Objectives
• Assessing WBG effectiveness
• Identifying principal external and internal constraints
• Suggesting improvements going forward
• Perspectives: “Do no harm” and “ Do good”
• Methodology
• Literature review
• Portfolio review (variation across WBG due to data availability)
• 9 country case studies

The 9 case study countries come from all regions and a mix of MICs and LICs

• Together these countries account for 56% of population, 46% of GDP, and over 40% of Bank environmental lending in developing and transition countries.

East Asia	China
Latin America	Brazil
Middle East/N. Afr	Egypt
Sub-Saharan Africa	Ghana, Madagascar, Senegal, Uganda
South Asia	India
Europe/Central Asia	Russia

Findings

World Bank

• Strategies
• 2001 WBG Strategy
• growing but still inadequate attention in country strategies
• even less in country-led PRSPs
• Lending and grants
• exact amount unknown – at most 5-10% Bank total
• project performance better over time, but M&E still weak
• weaker performance in Africa
• Nonlending
• as important as lending
• country environmental assessments: helpful where undertaken
• research influential: WDRs ’92, ’03; Greening Industry