This ongoing evaluation — to be issued in the fall of 2008 — will assess the development effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level support for health, nutrition, and population (HNP) over the past decade and highlight the lessons from that experience. The Bank's support includes policy, dialogue, analytic work, and lending with the objective of improving HNP outcomes.
The evaluation will cover the time period since 1997, the year that the Bank issued its first Sector Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population. The evaluation will address several issues in relation to the priorities and efficacy of key elements of that strategy, as reflected in country activities and reiterated in the recently issued Healthy Development: World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population Results (2007).
- To what extent has the Bank's support helped to improve HNP outcomes among the poor?
- What has been learned about the efficacy, advantages, and disadvantages of different approaches to improving HNP outcomes? These include sectorwide approaches, multisectoral approaches, communicable disease control, and health reform/strengthening.
- To what extent has Bank support resulted in improved monitoring of results and a stronger evidence base for decision making?
- What has been the value added of the Bank over this period and how has it evolved?
The evaluation provides a major opportunity to compare the varied experiences of Bank-supported government in an effort to learn how context, Bank-financed inputs, and other factors affect the success or failure of policies, programs, and approaches. It will provide valuable evidence on the efficacy and lessons of experience from the 1997 HNP strategy as the basis for improving the effectiveness of implementing the new 2007 HNP strategy and of the Bank's support for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. |
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