Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- The Bank Group and the Environment -- Evaluation Approach -- Portfolio and Performance Overview -- Principal Evaluation Findings -- Country strategies -- Analytic, financing, and guarantee activities -- Need for more strategic and coordinated approaches -- Partnerships -- External constraints -- Internal constraints -- Recommendations -- Advisory Panel Statement -- Introduction -- Terms of Reference -- Overall Conclusions -- Specific Recommendations -- Conclusion: A Forward-Looking Perspective -- Endnotes -- Management Response -- Introduction -- Key Issues of Agreement and Divergence -- A. Areas of agreement -- B. Areas of divergence -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- Chairperson's Summary: Committee On Development Efectiveness (Code) -- Background -- IEG Evaluation -- Draft Management Response -- General Conclusions -- Next Steps -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 The Context -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- Growth, Poverty, and Environment -- Bank Group Involvement in the Environment -- Bank Group Environment Strategies and Financial Support -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 The Evaluation -- Evaluation Highlights -- Objectives and Framework -- Methodological Approaches and Constraints -- Assessing World Bank effectiveness -- Assessing IFC and MIGA effectiveness -- Other evaluation and field inputs -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3 The World Bank and the Environment -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- World Bank Instruments -- Strategies and action plans -- National Environmental Action Plans and Country Environmental Strategy Papers -- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers -- Nonlending services -- Lending services -- Doing No Harm: Environmental Safeguards.

Doing Good: Stewardship, Mainstreaming, Global Sustainability, Partnerships, and the 2001 Strategy -- Improving environmental quality: Stewardship -- Mainstreaming the environment in development -- Managing risks to the Regional and global commons: Global and local benefits -- Partnerships45 -- Thematic priorities of the 2001 Environment Strategy -- Poverty, livelihoods, and the environment -- Health and environment -- Vulnerability and environment -- Environmental governance -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 IFC, MIGA, and the Environment -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- Assessing IFC Performance -- Description of IFC instruments -- Volume and nature of IFC investments -- Volume and nature of IFC nonfinancial services -- Advisory Services -- Equator Principles -- GEF and carbon finance projects -- "Doing no harm": Evaluating IFC's environmental effects in investment projects -- Performance by industry sector -- Performance by Region -- Performance in meeting project-level criteria -- Enhancement of environmental and social management systems -- IFC's environmental work quality at appraisal and supervision -- Lessons drawn from investment projects -- "Doing good": Evaluating IFC's stewardship in the private sector -- IFC Advisory Services -- Global sustainability-GEF-funded projects -- Partnership with the Equator Principle FIs -- Conclusion -- Assessing MIGA Performance -- MIGA guarantee portfolio -- "Doing no harm": Environmental standards for guarantee projects -- Performance of MIGA projects at Board approval and evaluation -- Key issues at Board approval for Category B projects -- Key issues at evaluation for Category B projects -- "Doing good": Stewardship, environmental governance, and sustainability -- Improving environmental quality: Stewardship -- Promoting environmental governance -- Global environmental sustainability.

Partnerships with other stakeholders -- Implementation of previous IEG recommendations -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5 Enhancing Bank Group Effectiveness -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- External Constraints on Effectiveness -- Knowledge and capacity limitations -- Political commitment -- Internal Constraints on Effectiveness -- Knowledge and capacity constraints -- Moving beyond the country and sector levels -- Authorizing environment -- Taking a longer-term view -- Bank leadership on the environment -- Coordination within the World Bank Group -- Endnotes -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Conclusions -- The World Bank -- IFC -- MIGA -- World Bank Group -- Recommendations -- Endnotes -- Appendix A: Evaluation Methodology -- Assessing World Bank Group Effectiveness -- Assessing IFC Effectiveness -- IEG-IFC Evaluation Methodology -- IEG-IFC Environmental and Social Review Template and Evaluation Questions -- Environmental and Social Effects -- Ratings -- Evaluation questions -- Project Screening and Appraisal, IFC's Work Quality (ESHS only) -- Ratings -- Evaluation questions -- Supervision, IFC's Work Quality (ESHS only) -- Ratings -- Evaluation questions -- Role and Contribution, IFC's Work Quality (ESHS only) -- Ratings -- Evaluation questions -- ESHS Success Factors and Wider Impacts -- Cooperation with Consultants and Future Needs for Environmental Appraisal, Monitoring, and Studies -- Assessing MIGA Effectiveness -- IEG-MIGA Environmental, Social, Health, and Safety Review Checklist -- Endnotes -- Appendix B: Relevant Findings from Previous IEG Evaluations -- Previous IEG Findings Regarding Environmental Assessment -- Previous IEG Findings Regarding Stewardship -- Previous IEG Findings Regarding Mainstreaming -- Previous IEG Findings Regarding Global Sustainability.

Previous IEG Findings Regarding Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters -- Previous IEG Findings Regarding Implementation of IEG-MIGA Recommendations on Environmental and Social Aspects -- Endnotes -- Appendix C: Country Case Studies: Overview -- Basic Demographic and Economic Characteristics -- National Wealth and Genuine Savings -- Regional and Global Environmental Significance -- Country Environmental Indicators -- World Bank Lending Commitments and IFC Exposure -- Endnotes -- Appendix D: Summary of Country Case Study Findings: Environmental Priorities and Bank Support -- Endnotes -- Appendix E: World Bank Environmental Projects Assessed for this Evaluation -- Appendix F: Environmental Portfolio Review -- ENRM Portfolio Characteristics -- Environment Portfolio Characteristics -- ENRM Portfolio Performance -- Environment Portfolio Performance -- Performance by ENRM Subtheme -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.