2010. The reform envisaged involves a culture shift that involves a form of grading risk based on initial assessment and a move to stronger levels of implementation support rather than simply supervision; this will involve Bank teams spending a greater proportion of available resources helping clients support implementation and build capacity. 5. The low correlation between lending allocation and crisis impacts remained robust if the IBRD is considered separately from IDA, whose flexibility in allocating resources based on crisis impacts was more limited (IEG 2012b). 6. Core diagnostic reports focus on analyzing fundamental areas of the economy and typically provide the basis for the Bank’s lending programs. These reports include Public Expenditure Reviews, Country Financial Accountability Assessments, Country Procurement Assessment Reviews, Poverty Assessments, Country Economic Memoranda/Development Policy Reviews, and Integrative Fiduciary Assessments. These ESW products reflect the critical analysis necessary for the CAS and the Bank’s overall development policy dialogue. 7. IEG notes particularly strong coordination among donors during the relief efforts for Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and Nicaragua (IEG 2006) (1999); for the Marmara earthquake in Turkey (2000); for drought in Sudan (1989); and for flooding in Bangladesh (1999), Mozambique (2000), and Gujarat (2002). 8. The evaluation centers on three sectors that are considered particularly important for the attainment of the MDGs (education and health, nutrition, and population) and critical for growth and the ability to deliver public and private services that advance the MDGs (transport) and because the three sectors are the principal ones for which Sector-wide Approaches have been adopted. 9. In that regard, it is notable that IEG’s evaluation of World Bank progress in harmonization and alignment finds limited progress in selectivity in part because of the heavy demand for the Bank’s involvement on the part of donors and recipients alike. 10. Unpublished IEG evaluation on IFC extractive industries, February 2012.
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