Member's Documents
2025: Independent Evaluation Group Validation of the Management Action Record
Published by: Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank Group
The Management Action Record (MAR) is an annual report that tracks the level of progress the World Bank Group has achieved in implementing recommendations from Independent Evaluation Group evaluations. This report presents IEG’s synthesis of progress toward achieving IEG evaluations’ intended outcomes and its assessment of the evidence in management’s MAR report, Delivering Results through a Better World Bank Group: The FY25 Management Action Record—A World Bank Group Management Report on Implementation of IEG Recommendations.
This year’s MAR assesses the Bank Group’s progress in implementing 72 agreed recommendations from 28 IEG evaluations completed between fiscal years 2021 and 2024. It also aggregates progress related to cross-cutting corporate priorities, such as inter-institutional coordination within the One World Bank Group approach; preparedness and resilience; and fragility, conflict, and violence.
The MAR highlights notable implementation advances for recommendations supporting food and nutritional security, private capital mobilization, and the Business Ready report. It also spotlights early progress on recommendations supporting financial inclusion and the blue economy, which already show emerging evidence of implementation in their first year of the MAR cycle.
The report points to recommendations that will require a focused follow-up in the next report and provides an analysis of factors contributing to implementation success.
The report offers three suggestions to improve next year’s MAR including starting the validation process earlier for better planning and data collection, clarifying accountabilities for improved ownership and agreement, and continuing to build on the 2020 MAR reform to address emerging issues.
