Bank - Environmental Sustainability

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Cover: Top left: Wastewater treatment plant in Honduras; photo courtesy of Jouni Martti Eerikainen. Top right: Planting coffee trees; photo courtesy of Jouni Martti Eerikainen. Bottom left: Logging road through deforested area of Bornea, in Sabah, Malaysia; photo Frans Lanting/CORBIS, reproduced by permission. Bottom right: Coal manufacturing plant along the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China; photo Keren Su/CORBIS, reproduced by permission.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8213-7670-6
e-ISBN-13: 978-0-8213-7671-3
DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7670-6

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Environmental sustainability: an evaluation of World Bank Group support. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8213-7670-6
1. Economic assistanceDeveloping countriesEnvironmental aspects. 2. Sustainable developmentDeveloping countries. 3. World BankDeveloping countriesEvaluation. I. World Bank.
HC60.E53 2008
338.907091724dc22

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Forestry operation in northwest Russia. Photo courtesy of Jouni Martti Eerikainen.

Abbreviations

AAA	Analytical and advisory activities (World Bank)
CAO	Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (IFC)
CAS	Country Assistance Strategy
CEA	Country Environmental Analysis (World Bank)
CES	Environment and Social Development Department (IFC)
CESP	Country Environmental Strategy Paper (World Bank)
CMU	Country management unit
CPS	Country Partnership Strategy
DFID	Department for International Development (U.K.)
DPL	Development Policy Loan/lending (World Bank)
EAP	Environmental Action Plan
EBRD	European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EHS	Environmental health and safety
EMP	Environmental Management Plan
EMS	Environmental management system
ENRM	Environmental and natural resource management
EPFI	Equator Principle financial institution
ESE	Environmental and Social Effects (IFC)
ESMS	Environmental and Social Management System
ESW	Economic and sector work (World Bank)
FI	Financial intermediary
GDP	Gross domestic product
GEF	Global Environment Facility
IBRD	International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
IDA	International Development Association
IDF	Institutional Development Fund (World Bank)
IEG	Independent Evaluation Group
IFC	International Finance Corporation
ISO	International Standards Organization
IUCN	World Conservation Union
MDB	Multilateral development bank
MIGA	Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
NEAP	National Environmental Action Plan
NGO	Nongovernmental organization
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PPG7	Pilot Program for the Conservation of Brazilian Rainforests
PRSC	Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit (World Bank)
PRSP	Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
QAE	Quality at entry (MIGA)
UNDP	United Nations Development Program
UNEP	United Nations Environment Program
WDR	World Development Report
XPSR	Expanded Project Supervision Report (IFC)

Acknowledgments

The report was prepared by a team led jointly by John Redwood (Independent Evaluation Group [IEG]-World Bank), Jouni Eerikainen (IEG-International Finance Corporation [IFC]), and Ethel Tarazona (IEG-Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency [MIGA]) under the supervision of Cheryl Gray (director, IEG-World Bank) and Marvin Taylor-Dormond (director, IEG-IFC, and acting director, IEG-MIGA). It draws on significant research and contributions provided by Dinara Akhmetova, Debora Brakarz, and Lauren Kelly (IEG-World Bank); Rex Bosson, Kenneth Green, and Clive Mason (IEG-IFC); and Roger Batstone and Stephan Wegner (IEG-MIGA).