Strengthening public institutions underpins the World Bank's work in all sectors. Most Bank activities engage public sector institutions that are, or should be, supporting policy making and service delivery, and providing oversight and accountability. Institutional and Governance Reviews (IGRs) are analytical reports that focus on the functioning of key public institutions. They have three features. First, they take performance failures in policy management, service delivery, or accountability as the starting point for their analysis. Second, they use standardized toolkits, surveys, and quantitative measures of performance wherever possible. Third, and most fundamentally, they analyze the feasibility of reform recommendations with a rigorous assessment of political realities and constraints to reform.
The purpose of IGRs is to inform the Country Assistance Strategy and operational priorities by identifying institutional weaknesses that are contributing to measurable performance problems, by helping to improve the design of projects, and by providing a basis for rigorously prioritizing reforms according to institutional or political feasibility. IGRs should be undertaken upstream of the CAS or major lending operations. They are prepared for the country team, providing a basis for dialogue between the Bank and counterparts.
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