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The review assesses development outcome and World Bank Group performance, finding a moderately unsatisfactory overall development outcome despite good performance. Key weaknesses include a results framework dominated by milestones and outputs, limited outcome indicators, and insufficient alignment with expected evidence of development outcomes, alongside differentiation between World Bank and IFC/MIGA results.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nFor Official Use Only  \nCLR Review  \nIndependent Evaluation Group  \n\n| 1. CPS Data |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Country: Republic of South Africa |  |  |  |\n| CPS Year: FY14 |  | CPS Period: FY14-FY17 |  |\n| CLR Period: FY14 – FY18 |  | Date of this review: February 9, 2021 |  |\n| 2. Ratings |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  | CLR Rating |  | IEG Rating |\n| Development Outcome: | Moderately Satisfactory |  | Moderately Unsatisfactory |\n| WBG Performance: | Good |  | Good |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| 3. Executive Summary |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| (i) The South Africa Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for the period FY14-17 was approved by the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors in October 2013 and revised in the Performance and Learning Review (PLR) of November 2016. At that time the CPS period was extended by one year through FY18 . The two-year gap before the next country program is mainly due to the need to align the policy dialogue with the electoral cycle for the May 2019 elections and to build consensus with the new leadership.\u003Cbr>(ii) South Africa is an upper middle-income country with a GDP per capita (2018) of US$6,354 . GDP growth has remained slightly above one percent per year over the past decade, which has resulted in negative GDP growth per capita for every year starting 2015. This low growth has exacerbated already high unemployment (up from 25.1 percent of labor force in 2014 to a projected\u003Cbr>28.6 percent in 2019 – and considerably higher for youth), poverty , and inequality. The government’s vision throughout the CPS period was outlined in the 2030 National Development Plan (NDP) of 2012 that identified three key priorities: raising employment through faster economic growth, improving the quality of education, skills development and innovation, and building the capacity of the state to play a developmental, transformative role. The WBG program in the CPS focused on providing knowledge services in support of the government’s programs, plus IFC financing and MIGA guarantees, with new IBRD financing available at the client’s discretion.\u003Cbr>(iii) The program was well aligned with the NDP and largely comprised of analytical work from the World Bank side and IFC/MIGA support for private investors. There were eight areas of engagement: Urban Development; Health; Financial Inclusion; Energy; Private Investments; Environment; Asset, Debt and Risk Management; and Basic Education 1 – all important areas for South Africa’s development. The themes of the CPS were well aligned with the twin goals. Poverty and economic inequality are key issues in South Africa, and the Bank Group sought to contribute in several of the areas of engagement. The WB-supported program essentially comprised knowledge products including a growing element of Reimbursable Advisory Services. IFC and MIGA activities sought to contribute to development outcomes through support for private investment. Given the limited range of instruments intended for use, the Bank Group-supported program was not designed to achieve development outcomes but was largely focused on outputs. As such, the Bank Group’s activities\u003Cbr>0F |  |  |  |\n\n1 Basic Education was not reflected in the CPS results framework.  \nwere not likely to have a significant and direct impact on the key overall challenges for South Africa during the CPS period – the lack of economic growth , an increasing unemployment rate and rising inequality.  \n(iv) The results framework in the CPS (and its later modification in the PLR) was expressed mainly in terms of milestones and outputs; there were few outcome-oriented results indicators. Objectives were overly general and vague, with few baselines , numerical targets or target years, including for the three objectives with stated indicators and for many outputs and milestones. 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