Adapting to Climate Change: Assessing the World Bank Group ...

AcknowledgmentsThis evaluation was produced by a core team consisting of Kenneth Chomitz (taskteam leader), Dinara Akhmetova and Stephen Hutton, with significant contributionsfrom Ade Freeman, Ann Flanagan, and Silke Heuser. The report drew on evaluativework prepared by Richard Worden (Kiribati); Robert Schneider and Jorge Rubiano,assisted by Juliana Monsalve (Colombia); Paul Kirshen (hydropower); Robert Wilby(climate modeling and the use of General Circulation Models in World Bank Groupstudies). The approach paper was peer reviewed by Susmita Dasgupta, FatimaDenton, Richard Klein, and Claudio Volonte. An External Technical Advisory Panel(Samuel Fankhauser, Saleemul Huq, David Lobell, and Coleen Vogel) providedvaluable advice at midterm and peer review for the decision draft. Anna Viggh andMichael Toman also were peer reviewers. Vinod Thomas provided valuableguidance at the outset. Members of the Independent Evaluation Group ManagementTeam also provided useful comments. Administrative support was provided byNischint Bhatnagar, Gloria Soria, and Viktoriya Yevsyeyeva. Bill Hurlbut providededitorial advice, and the final report was edited by Cheryl Toksoz. Nik Harveyprepared the website. Caroline Heider provided overall direction of the evaluation.The team is grateful to the many people, inside and outside the World Bank Group,who were interviewed in the course of the evaluation. Support of the EvaluationDepartment of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation is gratefullyacknowledged.xiii