1. What We Do

Results Highlights

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[Brochure] - IDA21 - Pathways to Outcomes

IDA helps the world’s poorest countries meet their development goals, with financial support for infrastructure and service delivery, and investments in the private sector. It also brings stakeholders together to strengthen policies, institutions, and markets.
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IDA21 Scorecard Factsheet

This factsheet details the Who, What, When, and How of the IDA21 Scorecard, aimed at improving lives in IDA countries. It tracks results across 15 outcome areas, focusing on people-centric and outcome-driven indicators.
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Keeping Communities Connected in Small Island Developing States

Since 2014, the World Bank has supported resilient transport projects in 20 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, benefiting 3 million people.
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​​Replicable Mass Transit Systems Reduce Emissions and Connect People to Opportunities in Latin American Cities​

The World Bank has been instrumental in supporting the development of urban mass transit systems in Latin America, including metro lines, bus rapid transit, urban rail, and electric mobility.
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Africa Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation Drives Development in Africa 

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces critical challenges for digital development. However, in the last decade, the region has made substantial strides toward digital transformation.
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AFE Gender

Transforming the Lives of Women and Girls in Eastern and Southern Africa

In Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE), where women and girls face unique disadvantages in education and economic empowerment, operations that prioritize gender considerations have achieved some impressive successes over the past decade.
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The Global Concessional Finance Facility: Helping Middle-income Countries Address Global Refugee Challenges

The Global Concessional Finance Facility (GCFF) brings an innovative financing mechanism to support countries hosting large numbers of refugees. From its inception in 2016 to March 31, 2024, the GCFF provided $953 million in grants
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Why Results Matter


Measuring and reporting results is critical to ensure development effectiveness of our operations.

The World Bank works with client countries to improve measurement approaches and systems that help them track progress, learn lessons, and make timely corrections to achieve their development goals.


The Bank demonstrates results using various channels, both quantitatively and qualitatively. This is to capture the development impact of our diverse portfolio of tailored solutions for our client countries’ unique development challenges.

 

To learn more check out the Measuring and Reporting Results Factsheet.

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[BLOG] - New scorecard promotes better results with greater transparency and accountability

A year ago, at our Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, we announced an ambitious new vision—a world free of poverty on a livable planet. To accelerate progress toward this, we need to think big and act fast. We must achieve results that we can credibly measure and improve upon. The World Bank Group is on a journey to become better for the benefit of our clients, and the first annual release of our new scorecard lies at the core of our efforts.

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WBG Scorecard - New Website

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World Bank Group Scorecard

The new Scorecard will provide a yardstick to measure how we deliver on our mission to end poverty and boost prosperity on a livable planet. It focuses on accountability and impact, while consolidating all efforts under a unified set of indicators. 

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Development Impact in Regions and Countries

Turning Pages, Transforming Lives: Cameroon’s Textbook Revolution

Africa

KonTum

East Asia and Pacific

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Europe and Central Asia

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Latin America and Caribbean

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Middle East and North Africa

Hatirjheel, Bangladesh

South Asia

Corporate Results

The Corporate Scorecard reports the annual snapshot of results achieved by the World Bank Group, including results and performance indicators of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

The IDA Results Measurement System offers a similar view of the International Development Agency, the World Bank's fund for the poorest.

IDA Results | World Bank Annual Report | Our Goals

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IDA Results Measuring System

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Measuring and Reporting Results

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Results Briefs are short presentations of results that have been achieved with World Bank support. They describe the challenges, solutions and results achieved and provide information on financing instruments and beneficiaries.

Implementation Status and Results Reports (ISR) provide regularly updated information on progress directly from individual projects under implementation. 

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Implementation Completion and Results Reports (ICR) record achievements against a project’s development objectives. 
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