Country Assistance Evaluation Retrospective: An OED Self-Evaluation

This report is a self-evaluation of the Operations Evaluation Departments (OED) Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs). In a fiscal 2002 discussion of OED’s methodology for Country Assistance Evaluations, the Informal Sub-committee of the Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) noted the role CAEs play in assessing Bank interventions at the country level and the need to continue to refine the methodology. This retrospective responds to that discussion and has two primary purposes. First, it compiles lessons relevant for developing Country Assistance Strategies from the most recent batch of CAEs. Second, it assesses potential revisions to the CAE process, methodology, and presentation.