Environmental Sustainability

Contents......Page 5
Abbreviations......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Executive Summary......Page 17
Advisory Panel Statement......Page 27
Management Response......Page 31
Chairman’s Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE)......Page 51
Glossary......Page 55
1 The Context......Page 59
Growth, Poverty, and Environment......Page 61
Figure 1.1 Relationships among Growth, Poverty, and Environment......Page 62
Bank Group Environment Strategies and Financial Support......Page 64
2 The Evaluation......Page 67
Figure 2.1 Keys to Effectiveness......Page 69
Methodological Approaches and Constraints......Page 70
3 The World Bank and the Environment......Page 75
World Bank Instruments......Page 77
Figure 3.3 ENRM Portfolio Commitment Amounts and Number of Projects, by Fiscal Year......Page 82
Doing Good: Stewardship, Mainstreaming, Global Sustainability, Partnerships, and the 2001 Strategy......Page 83
4 IFC, MIGA, and the Environment......Page 101
Assessing IFC Performance......Page 103
Assessing MIGA Performance......Page 118
5 Enhancing Bank Group Effectiveness......Page 127
External Constraints on Effectiveness......Page 129
Internal Constraints on Effectiveness......Page 131
Coordination within the World Bank Group......Page 136
6 Conclusions and Recommendations......Page 139
Conclusions......Page 141
Recommendations......Page 145
Appendixes......Page 151
A: Evaluation Methodology......Page 153
B: Relevant Findings from Previous IEG Evaluations......Page 167
C: Country Case Studies: Overview......Page 171
D: Summary of Country Case Study Findings: Environmental Priorities and Bank Support......Page 177
E: World Bank Environmental Projects Assessed for this Evaluation......Page 197
F: Environmental Portfolio Review......Page 199
Endnotes......Page 207
Bibliography......Page 233
Box 3.1 Positive Impacts of Nonlending Support: Three Examples......Page 79
Box 3.2 Uneven Stewardship in Case Study Countries......Page 84
Box 3.3 Experience with Mainstreaming in Case Study Countries......Page 89
Box 3.4 Global Sustainability and Local Benefits in Case Study Countries......Page 90
Box 3.5 Successful Bank Partnerships for the Environment in Brazil......Page 91
Box 3.6 Environment-Poverty Linkages in Brazil, China, India, and Madagascar......Page 93
Box 3.7 Health and Environment in Selected Case Study Countries......Page 94
Box 3.8 Environment and Vulnerability in India and China......Page 96
Box 3.9 Environmental Management Capacity—India......Page 97
Box 3.10 Managing Air Quality in Metropolitan Areas......Page 98
Box 3.11 The Bank and Environmental Governance in Brazil, China, and Africa......Page 99
Box 4.1 Policy, Performance Standards, and Strategy to Promote Sustainability......Page 105
Table 4.1 Commitments and Environmental Categories, by Sector, Fiscal 1990–2006......Page 106
Figure 1.2 World Bank Group Environment-Related Activities......Page 63
Figure 3.2 Share of Bank Environment Commitments in ENRM Portfolio, by Region, Fiscal 1990–2007......Page 81
Figure 3.5 Share of Completed ENRM Projects Rated Satisfactory, by Sector Board Mapping, Fiscal 1990–2005......Page 85
Figure 3.6 ENRM and Environment Portfolio Performance, by Region, Fiscal 1990–2007......Page 86
Figure 4.1 ESE Success Rate of IFC Projects, by Industry Sector......Page 109
Table 4.3 ESE Success Rates in IFC XPSR Projects......Page 112
Figure 4.3 Success Rates by Performance Criteria in FI Projects......Page 113
Figure 4.5 MIGA Portfolio Composition, by Sector......Page 119
Figure 4.6 Comparison of Performance Ratings at Approval and Evaluation......Page 120
Figure 4.7 Selected Safeguard Performance Criteria at Approval and Evaluation......Page 121
Table 3.1 Portfolio by Region, Fiscal 1990–2007......Page 80
Table 3.2 ENRM Projects, by Theme, Fiscal 1990–2007......Page 87
Table 4.2 ESE Success Rate, by Year, for 632 Evaluated IFC Investment Projects......Page 108