Tier 2

The indicator measures the number of IDA countries supported to implement and/or update their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). The NBSAPs are the main vehicle for implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, including the recently adopted Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework containing the new set of global biodiversity targets for the period of 2022-2030. NBSAPs are comprised of national strategies that reflect how a country intends to fulfill the global biodiversity targets, considering national circumstances, and the related action plans that constitute the sequence of steps to be taken to meet these targets. Data are reported for countries that receive support through interventions of IDA-financed operations to implement and/or update their NBSAPs. 

The indicator measures the number of IDA countries with a completed Country Climate Development Report (CCDR). The CCDR is a new Bank Group core ASA, which captures the interplay between climate and development (including poverty reduction, growth, inequality). CCDRs are designed specifically to identify and analyze the disconnects between climate and development policies, identifying the highest-impact actions to reduce GHG emissions and build resilience, while delivering broader development goals.

The indicator measures the number of persons who benefitted from financial services in operations supported by IDA, and the number of businesses that benefited from financial services. Data is reported for Investment Project Financing, Development Project Financing, Program-for-Results, and Guarantees unless otherwise specified.

• Persons that benefited from financial services: Number of persons reached with financial services in operations supported by the World Bank. Financial services include transaction accounts, deposit accounts, mobile money accounts, loans, insurance, housing finance, and so on. Note: Reports on financial services to microenterprises and individuals/people are not always well-separated since some individuals take out personal loans for use in microenterprises. These numbers will be reported on as provided by the client.

Businesses that benefited from financial services: Number of businesses reached with financial services in operations supported by the World Bank. Beneficiaries include microenterprises, small and medium enterprises, and large businesses. Financial services include transaction accounts, deposit accounts, mobile money accounts, loans, insurance, pension, factoring, leasing, bonds, and so on. Note: Since large businesses make up a minute number of beneficiaries in client countries and since they are very difficult to separate and almost all countries don’t report on them separately, this indicator will include all businesses. Reports on financial services to microenterprises and individuals/people are not always well-separated since some individuals take out personal loans for use in microenterprises. These numbers will be reported on as provided by the client.

The indicator measures the number of beneficiaries reached by interventions that contribute to the jobs agenda in operations funded by IDA. The indicator captures the cross-cutting nature of the jobs agenda, as beneficiaries (disaggregated by gender) may be individuals, workers, households, farmers, microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and other target groups that benefit from IDA-supported operations in different sectors and types of operations. Data is reported for Investment Project Financing, Development Project Financing, Program-for-Results, and Guarantees, unless otherwise specified.

- Jobs are defined as “activities that generate income, monetary or in kind, without violating human rights” (Source: WDR on Jobs, 2013).

- Jobs-focused interventions are those contributing to the jobs agenda that have an explicitly stated and substantive link to creating more, better, and/or inclusive jobs

- Jobs agenda supports the creation of better-quality jobs for more people. The Jobs agenda is broad and includes interventions on the supply and demand side, across various sectors and cross cutting themes. It includes (but not limited to) the following:

• expanding employment or labor force participation
• increasing employability of unemployed
• increasing firm entry and employment
• improving labor productivity, skills, earnings, or livelihood
• improving working conditions or benefits
• developing value chains to create more and better jobs downstream
• greening jobs 

Number of direct and indirect beneficiaries that experience improved access to transport infrastructure and services that have been built or rehabilitated through World Bank-financed project (including highways, rural roads, urban and interurban roads, mass transit systems, ports/waterways, railways and airports). Beneficiaries typically experience reductions in cost and time to travel and/or improvements in safety, as well as increased access to markets, job opportunities, and health and education services. In urban areas, beneficiaries include the increase in the number of users of improved services. In rural areas, beneficiaries include the increase in the number of people who live in proximity to improved services. Data is reported for Investment Project Financing, Development Project Financing, Program-for-Results, and Guarantees, unless otherwise specified.

The indicator measures the cumulative number of people living in urban areas that have been provided with access to improved services, housing, tenure, neighborhoods, public spaces, parks, resilience and/or urban environmental conditions, through the direct interventions of operations financed by IDA. Data is reported for Investment Project Financing, Development Project Financing, Program-for-Results, and Guarantees, unless otherwise specified.

Women and children who have received basic nutrition services: Refers to the total beneficiaries reached by any of the following services: direct feeding programs (supplementary feeding for pregnant and lactating women and infants and young children under age 5); programs promoting appropriate infant and young child feeding (such as promotion/support for exclusive breastfeeding, adequate and timely introduction of complementary foods); nutrition programs for adolescent girls, including nutrition education, micronutrient supplements, and so on, delivered through school health/nutrition programs or other programs reaching adolescent girls; provision of micronutrient supplements to pregnant/lactating women and children under 5 including vitamin A, iodine, iron/iron folic acid, supplemental zinc, and multiple micronutrient powders; food fortification (such as, iodized salt); deworming; monitoring of nutritional status; nutrition and food hygiene education; nutrition components of early childhood development programs; home gardens and small livestock production for improved dietary diversity; targeted emergency food aid and treatment of severe acute and moderate acute malnutrition. Although the same individuals could receive more than one of the above services, they should be counted only once.

Estimated number of COVID-19 vaccine doses purchased with Bank-financing and already in people’s arms.

Number of IDA-supported completed large-scale assessment rounds in primary or secondary level. “Large-scale assessment rounds” refers to rounds of a large-scale assessment of student achievement (regardless of grade level), for which the results are made publicly available within two years of the assessment administration; the assessment round is counted as completed for the year in which the assessment learning data are released – not in the fiscal year that the assessment is conducted; if an assessment is administered during a particular year that covers multiple grades and/or subjects, that assessment is counted as one round in the year that the data are publicly released; “IDA-supported” refers to either IDA lending (via Investment Project Financing, Program-for-Results, Recipient-Executed Trust Fund, and so on), which specifies support for this particular large-scale assessment in the project World Bank Project Appraisal Document. The supported activities could include, among other things, capacity building, design, administration, analysis, reporting, use, publication, and dissemination of an assessment; “Large-scale assessment” includes both national large-scale assessments (those that measure student performance with the aim of describing overall performance levels in the education system as a whole at the sub-national or national levels) and international large-scale assessments (those that measure student performance with the aim of comparing overall performance levels across countries or education systems.)

This indicator measures the cumulative number of people who benefited from improved water supply services that have been constructed through operations supported by IDA. This includes people newly provided with access to improved water sources and people benefiting from rehabilitation works. Data are reported for Investment Project Financing, Development Project Financing, Program-for-Results, and Guarantees, unless otherwise specified.

• Improved water sources include piped household connections (house or yard connections) and community water points (public standpipes, boreholes, protected dug wells, and protected spring and rainwater collection). It does not include water provided through tanker trucks or vendors; unprotected wells or unprotected springs; surface waters (such as rivers, ponds, dams, lakes, streams, and irrigation channels); or bottled water. The definition of “improved water sources” follows the UNICEF-WHO Joint Monitoring Program definition.

The indicator measures the cumulative number of people who benefited from improved sanitation facilities that have been constructed through operations funded by IDA. This includes people newly provided with access to improved sanitation facilities and people benefiting from rehabilitation works. Data are reported for Investment Project Financing, Development Project Financing, Program-for-Results, and Guarantees, unless otherwise specified.

• Improved sanitation facilities include flush or pour-flush to a piped sewer system, septic tank, or pit latrine; ventilated improved pit latrine; pit latrine with slab; and composting toilet. It does not include flush or pour-flush to elsewhere (that is, not to a piped sewer system, septic tank, or pit latrine); pit latrine without slab/open pit; bucket; hanging toilet or hanging latrine; shared facilities of any type; or no facilities, bush, or field. The definition of “improved sanitation facilities” follows that of the UNICEF-WHO Joint Monitoring Program.