Approach Paper
This is the approach paper for the Evaluation of the World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence 2020–25 (Approach Paper). The evaluation responds to a request by the Bank Group Boards of Directors to inform the development of a new Bank Group FCV strategy. It seeks to distill findings and lessons from the Bank Group experience with the implementation of the 2020–25 FCV strategy to inform the preparation of a new Bank Group FCV strategy.
Given this objective and to optimize IEG’s value add, this evaluation is focused on providing timely findings and lessons for the new strategy. It seeks to assess the extent to which the key elements of the FCV strategy have enhanced the World Bank Group engagement in countries affected by FCV. It will focus on the relevance, implementation, and achievement of objectives of the FCV strategy and the Bank Group’s operational framework along the dimensions of programming, personnel, partnerships, and policies.
A future second-phase evaluation by IEG will investigate the effectiveness of Bank Group operational engagements in FCV, country-level outcomes, and factors determining performance in more depth. This follow-up study will also seek to address the relevance and effectiveness of operations in the strategy’s four pillars of engagement.