Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2015

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- contents -- abbreviations -- acknowledgments -- overview -- management comments -- 1. Gender Integration in World Bank Group Operations and Country Strategies -- Introduction -- Are projects and country strategies gender informed? -- Rationale and relevance for gender integration need to be more explicitly stated -- IFC's approach to gender integration is more focused, but has lower coverage -- Selecting gender as a cross-cutting theme dilutes the focus in country strategies -- Indicators used to track gender results are generally inadequate -- Gender indicators in country strategies focus on outputs -- IDA and IBRD projects do not identify gender relevance or articulate a results chain -- IFC projects have standard gender indicators, though the expected impact is unclear -- Conclusion -- 2. Recent Results and Performance of World Bank Group Operations -- World Bank Group commitments rise after the postfinancial crisis decline -- World Bank project performance stabilizes -- Development outcomes for IFC investment projects continue to decline -- Performance of MIGA guarantees are stable with some weaknesses -- For World Bank projects, some country and project factors matter more than initial size -- Quality at entry and project supervision are key to project outcomes -- For IFC projects, size is not the dominant risk factor -- Results and Performance of the World Bank Group at country level -- 3. Management Action Record -- Background -- How well are recommendations implemented? -- How well does the MAR work? -- How can MAR potential be tapped? -- Boxes -- Box 1.1 The 2010 IEG Gender Evaluation -- Box 1.2 Findings from Recently Completed IEG Thematic Evaluations -- Box 1.3 Indicators in Projects and Country Strategies -- Box 1.4 Lessons from Tracking Results during Implementation in Agriculture.