Download Report - Independent Evaluation Group - World Bank

Foreword
This case study is one of six evaluations of the implementation of the
World Bank’s 1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Cameroon,
China, Costa Rica, India, and Indonesia) complement a review of the
entire set of lending and nonlending activities of the World Bank Group
(IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
that are pertinent to the Bank Group’s implementation of the forest
strategy. Together these constitute inputs into a World Bank Operations
Evaluation Department (OED) synthesis report entitled The World
Bank’s 1991 Forest Strategy and Its Implementation. This forest strategy
evaluation was carried out under the overall direction of Uma Lele.
The purpose of each of the six country studies has been to understand
the implementation of the 1991 Forest Strategy in Bank operations
and to obtain the views of the various stakeholders in the country
about the involvement of the Bank. In doing so, the study team has not
only examined the Bank’s forest program but also endeavored to place
the Bank’s activities in the broader context of what the country and
other donors have been doing in the forest sector. Therefore, each country
study examined the overall development of the country’s forest sector.
While this naturally includes environmental impacts on forests, such
as degradation, biodiversity loss, and deforestation, it also encompasses
the economic uses of forests, including the management of forest resources
for production, the role of forest development in poverty alleviation,
and the impacts of forest research and development.
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