At A Glance: | The World Bank's involvement: | | 125 Global Partnership Programs | | 50 Regional Partnership Programs... | | ...with $3.5 billion annual expenditures in 2006 |
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IEG is deeply involved in the evaluation and review of this important and growing line of business for the Bank. Global programs, like the Prototype Carbon Fund, the Stop TB Partnership, and the Cities Alliance, and regional programs like the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control and the Child Protection Initiative are programmatic partnerships in which:
- The partners contribute and pool resources (financial, technical, staff, and reputational) toward achieving agreed-upon objectives over time.
- The activities of the program are global, regional, or multi-country (not single-country) in scope.
- The partners establish a new organization with a governance structure and management unit to deliver these activities.
The Bank is currently involved in about 125 global programs and 50 regional programs, which together spent around US$3.5 billion in 2006. And the Bank has become by far the largest trustee for global and regional trust funds, holding a stock of more than US$6 billion of such funds at the end of June 2006. | |
 Addressing the Challenges of Globalization (Phase 2 Report) | The CGIAR at 31: An Independent Meta-Evaluation of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research | | Financial Sector Assessment Program: IEG Review of the Joint World Bank and IMF Initiative | The Development Potential of Regional Programs: An Independent Evaluation of World Bank Support of Multicountry Operations | | |
| Evaluation Principles and Standards for GRPPs |
 IEG is playing a leading role in developing principles and standards for evaluating GRPPs under the auspices of the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation. The Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs is a free-standing document which builds on principles and standards for evaluating development assistance that have been developed by the OECD/DAC Evaluation Network, the United Nations Evaluation Group, the Evaluation Cooperation Group of the Multilateral Development Banks, evaluation associations, and others. The Sourcebook also draws on IEG's experience in reviewing GRPPs as well as the feedback received at the Stakeholder Consultative Workshop held for this purpose in Paris in September 2006. | |
| | | Global and Regional Program Sites and Evaluations |
 IEG has so far reviewed the most recent evaluations of more than 30 global and regional partnership programs as part of its Phase 2 Report of the Bank's involvement in global programs and its ongoing Global Program Reviews of selected program-level evaluations.
Click here to access the web-sites of these programs and their most recent evaluations (if these are publically available). IEG is currently undertaking a comparative review of the independence and quality of these evaluations. | More > |
| | What are Global and Regional Partnership Programs? | Global and regional partnership programs represent collective action to achieve common development objectives that program partners can achieve more efficiently by working together. |
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