Completion and Learning Review - Review Honduras FY16-FY20 Country Partnership Framework

Jul 19, 2026

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Completion and Learning Review (CLR) evaluates the World Bank Group’s FY16–FY20 Country Partnership Framework for Honduras and its adjustments through the FY19 Performance and Learning Review. The CPF period was extended to FY21 due to COVID-19. Results assessed include inclusion, growth and resilience, and disaster risk management, with evidence on conditional cash transfers, infrastructure reliability, regulatory reforms, and municipal disaster planning. IEG rates development outcome as Moderately Satisfactory and WBG performance as Good.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages32

Reading Time1 h 21 min

Executive Summary

Development outcomes and ratings

Focus area I: fostering inclusion

Focus area II: bolstering growth and resilience

Focus area III: disaster risk management

World Bank Group performance

Public Disc losure Authorized CLR Review Independent Evaluation Group Completion and Learning Review Review Honduras FY16-FY20 Country Partnership Framework July 13, 2022 Ratings | | CLR Rating | CLRR (IEG) Rating | | --- | --- | --- | | Development Outcome: | Moderately Satisfactory | Moderately Satisfactory | | WBG Performance: | Good | Good | Pub lic Disc losure Authorized Executive Summary i. This review of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Completion and Learning Review (CLR) covers the FY16-FY20 Country Partnership Framework (CPF), and its adjustments through the FY19 Performance and Learning Review (PLR). The CPF period was extended to FY21 under the blanket extension provided by the WBG’s Board of Executive Directors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ii. The WBG program sought to support critical components of the government’s plan, with an emphasis on the themes of social inclusion, growth and resilience, which were highlighted as priorities in the WBG’s Systemic Country Diagnostic. The program implemented during the CPF period was broadly aligned with the WBG’s twin corporate goals. Focus area I (fostering inclusion) directly addressed issues of poverty and shared prosperity. The focus area II on bolstering growth would promote employment and enhance rural productivity in an area where approximately half of the population lives engaged in semisubsistence agriculture. The last objective in the initial results framework—build crime and violence prevention capacity of local governments—addressed an issue of great significance for the poor, and a major cause for emigration from Honduras. The PLR dropped the objective and WBG support for it. iii. IEG rates the CPF development outcome as Moderately Satisfactory. Outcomes under one objective were rated Achieved and five objectives were rated Mostly Achieved. | CLR Reviewed by | Peer Reviewed by | CLR Review Coordinator | | --- | --- | --- | • Focus area I (fostering inclusion) results were beneficial for the poor: The program showed progress in improving the targeting of social programs, the one objective in this focus area. The Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) program has expanded coverage, targeting has improved, and educational attainment improved in rural areas. The indicators supporting the objective placed even emphasis on rural and urban areas, while the Bank team stated in consultations on the CLRR that the focus of the Bank’s work was overwhelmingly in rural areas, where poverty is more prevalent. The CCT program was less successful in targeting the extreme poor and achieving educational results in urban settings, although additional information shows significant progress during the extended CPF period (FY21) in the CCT program’s reach to the two lowest quintiles of the income distribution of the urban population. • Focus area II (bolstering conditions for growth) showed good results on improving reliability of key infrastructure and strengthening the regulatory framework; some results on institutional capacity; and made progress on enhancing rural productivity of a significant number of small producers. Changes to the business regulatory framework contributed to a shortening of the time needed to cross goods at the border with Guatemala, reduction in the time to open a business, and an increase in the number of families with land titles. All of these results contributed to alleviating important and relevant constraints. To improve public financial management through better control of the wage bill, public sector workforce was evaluated through an institutional functional review. However, there is no evidence of impact on the public sector wage bill. Through IFC interventions, more than 400 thousand people had new or improved electricity services, and over 60 thousand—people, microenterprises, and SMEs—had increased access to finance. The WBG helped enhance the productivity of a significant number of small rural producers.1. • Results under

FAQs

What does the Completion and Learning Review cover for Honduras?

It covers the World Bank Group’s FY16–FY20 Completion and Learning Review for the Honduras Country Partnership Framework and adjustments through the FY19 Performance and Learning Review.

How were the outcomes rated by IEG?

IEG rates the CPF development outcome as Moderately Satisfactory, with one objective Achieved and five objectives Mostly Achieved.

What results were reported under the inclusion and growth focus areas?

In inclusion, progress is reported in conditional cash transfer targeting and rural educational attainment. In growth, results include improved reliability of key infrastructure, strengthened regulatory frameworks, and increased electricity services and access to finance through IFC.

Jul 19, 2026

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