Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction -- The World Bank's Gender Policy -- 2 Evaluating the Bank's Gender Policy -- Evaluation Questions for OED's Current Evaluation -- Evaluation Methodology -- Selecting Countries -- Selecting Projects -- Selecting Analytical Reports -- Evaluation Methods -- 3 Relevance of the Bank Gender Policy -- Is the Bank's Gender Policy Relevant for Poverty Reduction? -- Is the Bank Gender Policy Consistent with the Policies of Other Multilateral and Bilateral Development Agencies? -- Is the Bank's Gender Policy Relevant for Countries? -- Is the Bank's Gender Policy Appropriate to Evolving Lending, Client, and Development Paradigms? -- 4 How Has the Bank Implemented Its Gender Policy? -- How Well Does Analytical Work Integrate Gender? -- How Well Does the Bank Integrate Gender into Country Assistance Strategies? -- How Does the Bank Integrate Gender into Projects? -- Progress in Integrating Gender into Bank Assistance -- 5 Implementing and Operationalizing the Gender Policy: Why Has the Process Been Slow? -- Institutionalizing the Gender Policy -- Operationalizing the Gender Policy -- Conclusion -- 6 Results of the Bank's Gender Policy -- Increased Human Capital -- Education -- Health -- Sustainability of Results in Health and Education -- Greater Participation in Economic Development -- Increasing Women's Participation in Economic Development -- Greater Access to Economic Opportunities -- Microcredit: Greater Access to Credit Facilities -- Greater Access to Training or Upgrading Skills -- Is Successful Economic Participation Sustainable? -- Institutional Strengthening -- Greater Involvement of NGOs and Community Groups in Development -- Greater Availability of Gender-Disaggregated Data -- 7 Conclusions -- Improving Country-Level Assistance.

Improving Project-Level Results -- Operationalizing the Gender Policy -- Annexes -- A: Operational Policy 4.20: Gender and Development -- B: Socioeconomic Indicators Used for Phase II Evaluation -- C: Projects Reviewed for Phase II Evaluation -- D: Results of Staff Survey -- E: National WID Policies and Action Plans in 12 Countries -- F: Gender and Adjustment in 10 Countries -- G: Analytical Work 1990-2000 -- H: Adjustment Loans Reviewed -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Boxes -- 1.1: The Gender Policy of the Bank -- 1.2: Current Bank Commitments under OMS 2.20 and OP 4.20 -- 2.1: Gender Works: Oxfam Experience in Policy and Practice -- 3.1: Comprehensive Development Framework -- 3.2: Women as Agents of Change -- 4.1: Gender Awareness in 10 Sector Strategy Papers -- 4.2: Examples of Good Practices in Gender -- 4.3: Has There Been Perceptible Progress since the OED Evaluation of 2000? -- 5.1: Taking a Social Marketing Approach to Gender Mainstreaming: Experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean Region -- 6.1: Has There Been Progress since the OED Evaluation of 2000? -- 6.2: Did the Quality of Education Rise as Gender Disparity Lessened? -- 6.3: Sustainable Achievements in Education in Zambia -- 6.4: Unanticipated, Unrecognized, and Undocumented Environmental Impact on Men and Women -- 6.5: Microfinance Projects and Gender Relations -- 6.6: Gender-Disaggregated Data -- 7.1: Good Practices in Gender -- 7.2: Implementing Agencies Can Save the Situation -- 7.3: Messages from Regional Gender Workshops -- Figures -- 2.1: Relative Position of Evaluation Countries in Terms of GDP and U.N. Gender Development Index (GDI) -- 4.1: Regional Trends in Bank-Financed Projects with Gender Actions, 1988-98 -- Tables -- 2.1: Indicators and Rating Systems for Consistency with Policy -- 2.2: Representation of Countries.

3.1: Gender Policies of Multilateral and Bilateral Donor Agencies -- 4.1: Bank Investment Projects with a Gender Analysis by Sector and Rating, 1988-99 -- 4.2: Legal Agreement Covenants that Include Gender, by Type -- 4.3: Integration of Gender in Bank Assistance to Countries: Total and Adjusted Ratings -- 4.4: Projects with No Gender Analysis, by Sector -- 5.1: Compliance Procedures: Environment and Gender Policies -- 6.1 How Did Bank Assistance Increase Women's Human Capital? -- 6.2 How Did Bank Assistance Increase the Economic Participation of Women? -- 6.3 Integration and Monitoring of Gender Issues during Adjustment -- 6.4 How Did the Bank Influence Institutional Development for Gender? -- 7.1 How Did Bank Assistance Impact Country-Level Development Effectiveness?.