Notes 1 This number does not include some of the IEs that were dropped because of low project take-up and data issues, among other reasons. IFC has five IEs conducted for non-IFC projects but with IFC financial support. 2 There are 259 ongoing World Bank IEs in the database. Of these, 172 were randomly selected for the survey and their description verified and subsequently updated/ amended. Because the description of the remaining IEs was not validated, it is not included for sampling purposes. 3 Because IFC IEs are mostly conducted by external companies, it was not possible to reach to evaluators directly; M&E officers who are responsible for the coordination of the evaluations were contacted instead. 4 Only a few evaluators received more than one. 5 Evaluators/team leaders linked to one IE received an email with the IE description contained in the text of the email. For evaluators/team leaders linked to multiple IEs, the SurveyMonkey questionnaire contained the description of the multiple IEs (up to three). If the leader/evaluator indicated that he or she was not aware of the first IE based on its description, he or she would be directed to the description of the second IE. If the team leader/evaluator indicated that he or she was aware of this second IE, he or she would be directed to the third questionnaire. 6 These are persons who received the survey but chose to unsubscribe from the SurveyMonkey mailing list. 7 Information such as email addresses was pulled from the World Bank Directory, another internal Bank database, and the Bank directory for retired employees. 8 Response rates were quite low at first, so the team followed up with team leaders, M&E officers, and evaluators by sending reminder emails. Team leaders who are still World Bank Group employees were contacted by phone as well. 9 A possible reason for this discrepancy may be that those not affiliated with the World Bank tend to be academics and may be more willing to participate in surveys and voice their opinions/views. Also, Bank affiliates may already be overwhelmed with Bank surveys and therefore be less willing to answer another one. 10 Primary country case studies for countries in Africa could not be undertaken as originally intended. In lieu of that, secondary case studies from a previous IEG evaluation on nutrition following the same format as the case studies in the present report, were used to make sure that IE experiences in Africa are not left out.
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