Subseries - Agriculture and Human Development Division (OEDD1) special evaluation studies working files

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WB IBRD/IDA OPE-09-02

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Agriculture and Human Development Division (OEDD1) special evaluation studies working files

Date(s)

  • 1970 - 1997 (predominant 1980 - 1997) (Creation)

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20.18 linear feet of textual records

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The sub-series contains the working files for special studies generated by the Agriculture and Human Development Division (OEDD1) and its predecessors: the Agriculture and Family Planning Division; the Agriculture and Human Resources Division; and the Agriculture, Infrastructure and Human Resources Division. Included are files for process, policy, and thematic studies as well as sector studies concerning agriculture, education, population, and human resources projects and issues. Specifically, reports focus on: agricultural research and education; Bank project supervision; training included in Bank financed projects; population programs; Bank lending policy for plantation crops; agriculture projects in Sub-Saharan Africa; renewable resource management issues; gender issues in Bank lending; human resource framework for Bank projects; fertility decline; Bank lending for agricultural credit and rural finance; poverty alleviation; and the Bank's experience with government sponsored land settlement with irrigation development, agricultural marketing, and rural development.

Of special note are the files regarding the Narmada Project. It appears that OEDD1 began assembling many of the Narmada materials in this sub-series in 1991 when Bank President Conable commissioned in September of that year an independent review of two Bank-funded projects, Sardar Sarovar Dam and Power Project (Credit 1552; Loan 2497) and Sardar Sarovar Water Delivery and Drainage Project (Credit 1553), referred to collectively as the Narmada Project because of the relationship of the projects to the Narmada River in India.

Included in this sub-series are working files for a small number of OEDD1 Impact Evaluation Reports (IERs) covering: an irrigation project in Sri Lanka; a settlement project in the Terres Nueves region of Senegal; a Benin agricultural project; a cotton development project in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, and Togo; education projects in Colombia, Indonesia, and Malawi; and others. There are also files for the 1990 and 1995 Interim Evaluations of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) including the second and third of a series of evaluations of AKRSP conducted by OED at the request of, and with funding from, the Aga Khan Foundation. A few files in this sub-series contain comments that OEDD1 staff provided on studies and reports generated by other Bank units or by other organizations and institutions.

Some of the files in this sub-series contain background reports, studies, and publications dated as early as 1970.

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Accruals are not expected.

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Original file arrangement has been maintained. Files are arranged by study subject or title.

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Conditions governing access

Records are subject to the Internal Evaluation Group's Access to Information Policy.

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Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

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  • English

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  • Some records from projects that originated in OEDD1 were transferred to the Sector and Thematic Evaluation Division (OEDST). See Records of the Operations Evaluation Department -- Special Evaluation Studies -- Sector and Thematic Evaluation Division (ODEST) special evaluation studies working files (WB IBRD/IDA OPE 09-05). It is likely that records generated by OEDD1 found in this sub-series were transferred to the OEDST along with Department employees during the Department's structural reorganization in 1997. For additional information regarding the Narmada project, see Records of the Operations Evaluation Department -- Records of the Director-General, Operations Evaluation (DGO) -- Records of the Directors-General, Operations Evaluation, Regarding the Evaluation Capacity Development Program (WB IBRD/IDA OPE-13-09) and Records of the Operations Evaluation Department -- Records of the Director, Operations Evaluation Department -- Subject Files of the Directors, Operations Evaluation (WB IBRD/IDA OPE-01-02).

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Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).

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Dates of creation revision deletion

19 June 2009, 16 September 2009, 19 October 2009, 4 April 2012

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