Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support

The evaluation has four broad recommendations

• Elevate environmental sustainability as WBG priority -- not just more of the same, but a “transformational” change
• Move to more integrated, cross-sectoral and area-based approaches and strengthen staffing
• Greatly improve ability to measure, monitor, and evaluate activities and their results
• Continue to strengthen partnerships

What would success look like?

• A widely-shared understanding of the critical role of environmental sustainability to development
• Clear alignment behind key strategic objectives
• Strong and effective WBG capacity
• Effective internal and external collaboration
• An emphasis on continual learning (from both success and failure)…

…and a more sustainable world for all

Thank you Evaluation available at: www.worldbank.org/ieg/environmentalsustainability

• Evaluation authors:
• John Redwood (IEG-WB)
• Jouni Eerikainen (IEG-IFC)
• Ethel Tarazona (IEG-MIGA)