Sustainable Infrastructure Operations in Advanced Transition Countries

The purpose of this evaluation is to provide evidence-based analysis contributing to: i) institutional accountability by evaluating the characteristics of the past operations against expectations; and, ii) institutional learning by offering insights relevant for the development of future strategies and project design.

It is structured around the three sub-sectors of Sustainable Infrastructure – Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure (MEI), Transport sector operations, and Energy sector operations. At the same time it focusses specifically on three individual Advanced Transition Countries, each of which had a critical mass of operations in one of the chosen sub-sectors. The objective was to be able to identify both common features and cumulative effects in the individual country contexts that are the Bank’s stated benchmark for transition progress. The selected sub-sector/country clusters were: i) MEI operations in Croatia; ii) Transport operations in Hungary; and, iii) Energy operations in Poland.