Guided by improvements in operational and organizational effectiveness, the World Bank Group continues to adapt to changing global needs, with a sharp focus on country contexts and on managing toward lasting development outcomes. Rising trends in independent assessment of outcomes in World Bank Group country programs, IDA operations, IBRD operations, and IFC investment and advisory services show the results of years of effort to improve the quality and relevance of services for clients. MIGA results remain near peak levels.
Importantly, the quality of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in IDA and IBRD operations reached its highest point ever, closing in on the corporate target and still climbing. Collecting and using evidence to better implement operations is central to the outcome orientation agenda, and is a likely contributor to improving development outcomes.