Acknowledgments This evaluation is a joint product of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) departments of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Martha Ainsworth (IEG-WB) was the task leader and coordinator of the joint evaluation, drafted the chapters of the report evaluating the World Bank, and was responsible for integrating the World Bank and IFC results. Hiroyuki Hatashima (IEG-IFC) led the evaluation of IFC. The evaluation was conducted under the overall direction of Vinod Thomas, Cheryl Gray, Marvin Taylor-Dormond, and Monika Huppi. The evaluation report is based on contributions from a team of IEG staff and consultants who conducted desk reviews, inventories, and interviews and data collection in the field. The seven health, nutrition, and population (HNP) Project Performance Assessment Reports (PPARs) conducted for the evaluation of the World Bank were led and prepared by staff members Denise Vaillancourt (Egypt, Ghana) and Gayle Martin (Eritrea), and consultants Judyth Twigg (Kyrgyz Republic, Russia), Mollie Fair (Peru), and Patricia Ramirez (Peru). The PPARs on water supply and sanitation (Nepal) and roads (Romania) with health objectives were conducted by staff members Keith Pitman and Peter Freeman, respectively. The country case studies were prepared by R. Paul Shaw (Nepal), A. Edward Elmendorf and Flora Nankhuni (Malawi), and Alejandra Gonzalez (Egypt). In-depth desk reviews of various aspects of the HNP portfolio over a decade were conducted by Mollie Fair, Judith Gaubatz, Manisha Modi, and Manuela Villar Uribe. Lisa Overbey contributed a desk review of the water supply and sanitation portfolio and Peter Freeman and Kavita Mathur provided a review of the transport portfolio. Additional
specific reviews were provided by Mollie Fair (HNP strategy and timeline, population); Judith Gaubatz (Country Assistance Strategy review); Gayle Martin (communicable disease portfolio and inventory of HNP analytic work, with contributions from Manisha Modi and Marie-Jeanne Ndiaye); Manisha Modi (HNP portfolio analysis, staffing, and formal Bank analytic work, with inputs from Helena Tang and Saubhik Deb); Flora Nankhuni (health of the poor and staffing analysis); Shampa Sinha (Country Assistance Strategy review); Joan Nelson (health reform); Manuela Villar Uribe (monitoring and evaluation, impact evaluation and pilots, HNP in public expenditure reviews and poverty assessments); and Denise Vaillancourt (sectorwide approaches). IEG is particularly grateful to Christine Aquino and Samina Amin of the Human Resources department for facilitating access to and helping to interpret the data on staffing of the HNP sector. The evaluation of IFC’s operations in health was conducted under the guidance of Stoyan Tenev and Amitava Banerjee. The IFC evaluation team included Maria-Antonia Remenyi, Aygul Ozen, Chaoying Liu, Miguel Rebolledo Dellepiane, Nicholas Burke, and Vicky Viray-Mendoza. The report team extends its gratitude to the hundreds of individuals in government, civil society, the donor community, the World Bank and IFC, and the private sector who were interviewed for the background papers, PPARs, country case studies, and IFC field visits. They are acknowledged individually in these respective reports. The team also extends its appreciation to World Bank HNP staff who served as peer reviewers for the portfolio work, and to those staff members who attended seminars on the findings of intermediate products and provided valuable feedback.
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