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Country Program Evaluation: Bahamas 2010-2017

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) is the third independent evaluation of the Bank’s program with the country. It examines the Bank’s relationship with The Bahamas from an independent and comprehensive perspective, and serves the dual purpose of strengthening accountability and sharing lessons learned for future Bank support and for the next Country Strategy. The CPE looks in depth at the design, implementation, and results of operations approved or active between January 2010 and June 2017, considering the country context and the applicable strategic documents.

Evaluation of the Bank's Support for Gender and Diversity

The objective of the evaluation is to assess how well and to what extent the IDB’s activities to date have promoted gender equality, women’s empowerment, and development with identity. The evaluation focuses on three key aspects: (i) the relevance of the Bank’s approach (its policy framework and the implementation of that framework) to promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, and development with identity; (ii) the extent of its activities to support gender and diversity; and (iii) the institutional factors that influence these activities. Findings seek to identify factors that affect the success of various types of operations in different contexts, and to provide recommendations on how the Bank can enhance its support for gender and diversity.

Approach Paper: Country Program Evaluation: Barbados 2014-2018

The Country Program Evaluation will assess whether the program implemented by the IDB was consistent with Barbados’s development needs and Government priorities and with the objectives identified by the Bank in its 2015-2018 Country Strategy. It will also examine the extent to which the program made progress in achieving its outcome targets and the factors that affected the program’s implementation and sustainability of the results achieved.

IDB’s Ninth General Capital Increase: Implementation and Results

In 2010 the IDB’s Board of Governors approved the 9th General Capital Increase (IDB-9), adding

Documento de enfoque: Evaluación del Programa de País: Honduras (2011-2014)

70 billion in paid-in and callable capital to IDB’s existing

Comparative Evaluation: Review of Bank Support to Tax Policy and Administration, 2007-2016

100 billion capital base. Governors tied the capital increase to a series of Bank reforms, further detailed in the “Report on the Ninth General Increase in the Resources of the Inter-American Development Bank” (“IDB-9 Agreement”). This evaluation reviews IDB’s implementation of the IDB-9 mandates and results to date. It follows the themes of OVE’s 2013 midterm evaluation (also mandated under IDB-9) and focuses more centrally on “the big picture” – to what extent IDB-9 mandates have been implemented, what has been achieved, and what challenges remain going forward.

Approach Paper: Evaluation of the Bank's Support for Gender and Diversity

Esta Evaluacion del Programa de Pais (CPE) con Honduras cubre el periodo entre enero de 2011 y abril de 2014 y es la cuarta oportunidad en que la Oficina de Evaluacion y Supervision (OVE) evalua el programa del Banco con el pais. Las anteriores evaluaciones cubrieron los periodos 1990-2000 (RE-263), 2001-2006 (RE-328) y 2007-2010 (RE-390). De conformidad con el Protocolo para las Evaluaciones de Programa de Pais (RE-348-3), la meta principal de los CPE es ?proporcionar informacion sobre el desempeno del Banco a nivel de pais que sea creible y util y que permita incorporar lecciones y recomendaciones a fin de aumentar la efectividad en el desarrollo de la estrategia y programa generales de la asistencia del Banco a un pais. La actual estrategia de pais (GN-2645) fue aprobada en noviembre de 2011, no coincidiendo su periodo de vigencia con el ciclo politico del pais. El gobierno del presidente Porfirio Lobo tuvo lugar entre enero de 2010 y enero de 2014. La administracion del Banco espera presentar en el Directorio una nueva estrategia de pais en diciembre de 2014. La evaluacion esta organizada en cuatro capitulos mas un anexo. El capitulo I analiza el contexto general del pais El capitulo II analiza desde una perspectiva general el programa del Banco durante enero de 2011 y abril de 2014, en particular, la relevancia de la estrategia de pais y un analisis del programa efectivamente implementado. El capitulo III analiza, desde una perspectiva sectorial, la implementacion, efectividad y sostenibilidad de las operaciones y el grado de avance hacia los objetivos estrategicos planteados por el Banco. El capitulo IV presenta las conclusiones y recomendaciones.

Documento de enfoque: Revisión del respaldo del BID a la política y la administración tributarias, 2007-2016

This evaluation assesses the relevance, implementation, and effectiveness of the tax policy and administration interventions supported by the IDB over the last decade (2007-2016). To assess relevance, OVE identified and reviewed all lending and nonlending operations approved during the period that had a tax policy and/or revenue administration component. Given the multisectoral nature of fiscal issues, a first contribution of the evaluation is to identify the universe of projects with tax components and to draw Bankwide conclusions about it. OVE also considered the significant volume of knowledge products and sponsored dissemination activities the Bank has produced on taxation. In addition to conducting a desk review and general relevance analysis of the portfolio, OVE compared the Bank’s role in seven countries (Colombia, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay) to assess the relevance of design, implementation, and effectiveness.

Approach Paper: Country Program Evaluation: Bahamas 2010-2017

The objective of the evaluation will be to assess how well and to what extent the Bank’s activities to date have promoted gender equality, women’s empowerment, and development with identity. The evaluation will focus on three key aspects: (i) the relevance of the Bank’s approach to promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, and development with identity; (ii) the effectiveness to date of operations that seek to support gender equality, women’s empowerment, and development with identity; and (iii) the institutional factors that influence direct investment and mainstreaming in Bank activities. Findings will seek to identify factors that affect the success of various types of operations in different contexts, and to provide recommendations on how the Bank can enhance its support for gender and diversity.

Country Program Evaluation: Suriname 2011-2015

The objective of the evaluation is to assess the relevance, implementation and effectiveness of IDBs support for tax policy and administration during the last decade. OVE will assess IDBs contribution to tax policy and administration, with a focus on domestic taxes. To contextualize Banks work on revenue, OVE will provide an overview of the entire fiscal portfolio, which also includes macro-fiscal, expenditure policy, and public financial management interventions. The evaluation findings will seek to identify factors that affect the success of various types of interventions in different contexts, and to provide recommendations on how the Bank can enhance its support to tax policy and administration.