Nepal Country Program Evaluation

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to Nepal in achieving its development objectives between 2014 and 2023. The evaluation will focus on the Bank Group’s support to Nepal as it tackled its long-term development challenges while undertaking political and institutional reforms relating to the shift to federalism and responding to multiple shocks and disasters. This period covered by this evaluation spans the last two country strategies—the FY14–18 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) and the FY19–23 Country Partnership Framework (CPF). The CPE will assess the adaptive relevance and coherence of the Bank Group–supported program by examining how the Bank Group has adapted its support over time in response to changing conditions and priorities. This will include an examination of the Bank Group’s response to the 2015 earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation will assess the Bank Group’s work in three important thematic areas—resilience to natural disasters, federalism, and jobs and private sector development—in greater depth.