Wednesday, July 23, 2008

[EQ] Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support

Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group. July 2008

Available online PDF [242p.] at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTENVIRONMENT/Resources/environ_eval.pdf

Evaluation Summary - English | 中文 Español | Français | Русский | Português

"….This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainability—in both the public and private sectors—over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to be addressed, perhaps most importantly insufficient government commitment to environmental goals and weak institutional capacity to deal with them. But constraints within the Bank Group, including insufficient attention to longer-term sustainable development, must be reduced as well. The Bank Group needs improved systems in place—across the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA —to monitor environmental outcomes and to assess impacts. Better coordination among the three parts of the Bank Group is also among the key challenges…."

Content:

Chapter 1: The Context
Chapter 2: The Evaluation
Chapter 3: World Bank and the Environment
Chapter 4: IFC, MIGA, and the Environment
Chapter 5: Enhancing Bank Group Effectiveness
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Recommendations

Annexes (all)

Annex A: Evaluation Methodology
Annex B: Relevant Findings from Previous IEG Evaluations
Annex C: Country Case Studies: Overview
Annex D: Summary of Country Case Study Findings: Environmental Priorities and Bank Support
Annex E: World Bank Environmental Projects Assessed for this Evaluation
Annex F: Environmental Portfolio Review

Summary of Country Case Study Findings

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTENVIRONMENT/Resources/appD.pdf

The summaries below contain a set of matrices that indicate how the Bank has responded to a range of key environmental issues in its country strategies, economic and sector work, and lending and grant operations both before and after 2000, together with the relative severity of each issue in each country.

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[EQ] Maximizing positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives

hs_&_ghi.pdf

“….In May 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting that signaled the beginning of a broad-based, international consultative process for driving forward the rapid development of global guidance on maximizing positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives (GHIs). Around 150 representatives from health systems, GHIs, governments, policy makers, donors, funding and other technical experts from multilateral and bilateral agencies, as well as professional organizations, academic institutions, civil society and the private sector attended the two-day consultation in Geneva.

“…..There is little doubt that positive synergies exist between health systems and the GHIs. But are these synergies being vigorously exploited by all stakeholders to ensure maximum, mutual added value? Or are new opportunities for improved public health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries being missed? ….”

Matching the power of Global Health Initiatives and health systems to increase access to health services [pdf 5.33Mb]

Presentation by Carissa Etienne, WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Systems and Services, at the Harvard School of Public Health on 16 July 2008.

Presentations

The following presentations were given at the WHO expert consultation on positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives (GHIs).

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