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The review states the CAS aligned with major development constraints, conflict and fragility, and PRSP-II priorities across four focus areas, with gender and climate as cross-cutting themes. It finds contributions in business environment, infrastructure, renewables, agriculture, water, education, and some health, while noting stalled or unassessable progress in governance, SOEs, transparency, and job creation.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nCLR Review  \nIndependent Evaluation Group  \n\n| 1. CAS Data |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| Country: Democratic Republic of Congo |  |  |  |\n| CAS Year: FY 13 |  | CAS Period: FY 13 – FY17 |  |\n| CLR Period: FY 13 – FY20 |  | Date of this review: February 11, 2022 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| 2. Ratings |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  | CLR Rating |  | IEG Rating |\n| Development Outcome: | Not Rated |  | Not Rated |\n| WBG Performance: | Not Rated |  | Not Rated |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| 3. Executive Summary |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| i. This is a validation of the Completion and Learning Review (CLR) for the World Bank Group’s (WBG) engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) covering the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) FY13-FY17 . For completeness and learning purposes, and while the CAS formally expired in FY17, IEG has elected to examine the period FY18-FY21 as well, where data are available, as no CPF was in place to replace the CAS. Owing to data limitations and in line with the Working Arrangements between the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and WBG, IEG’s review does not rate the CAS’s overall development outcome or the WBG’s performance.\u003Cbr>ii. The CAS was congruent with country development challenges and the country’s second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP-II) . It aimed to address the major binding constraints , rooted in conflict and fragility, that had prevented DRC from translating a recent track record of economic growth into poverty reduction: ongoing conflict , poor governance, highly limited capacity, and lack of employment opportunities. The program contained four focus areas: (i) increasing state effectiveness and improving good governance; (ii) boosting competitiveness to accelerate private-sector-led growth and job creation; (iii) improving social services delivery and increasing human development indicators; and (iv) addressing fragility and conflict in the Eastern provinces. Gender and climate change were defined as cross-cutting themes.\u003Cbr>iii. The objectives under the CAS were supported by a mix of WBG lending operations and advisory services and analytics (ASA) . Within each focus area, the interventions were logically mapped toward achievement of the program’s objectives and the country’s development goals. IFC’s investments were appropriately concentrated under the second focus area. However, program design relied heavily on several key assumptions that did not turn out to be valid: that the government, at all levels, would demonstrate sustained commitment and political will toward difficult reforms, especially of state-owned enterprises |  |  |  |\n\n\n| CLR Reviewed by: | Panel Reviewed by: | CLR Review Manager/Coordinator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n(SOEs); that interventions aimed at community development would produce effective bottomup demand for better governance; that requisite capacity at all levels could be built quickly and sustainably; and that planned surveys and statistical capacity development would be adequate to overcome shortages in agricultural, industrial, and population data. The program was complex, ambitious, and insufficiently selective, given the fragility, conflict and violence ( FCV) dynamic and existing capacity challenges that were well understood at the time of CAS preparation, and it became even less selective during implementation.  \niv. The FY13-FY17 CAS expired without a new WBG strategy in place and with no decision taken to extend either the strategy or the results framework, creating an extended period of time with no clear framework for accountability. The delay in preparing a new strategy stemmed from delays in presidential elections that stalled the formation of a new government for several years, as well as two geographically separate Ebola outbreaks. It is not clear why the existing strategy was not extended through engagement with the government in place. 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