Completion Evaluation of the State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF 1.0)

Since its inception in 2008, the State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF 1.0) reached 66 countries to cover all seven World Bank geographic regions and Global activities, financing more than US$327 million through 286 grants and 11 transfers to single-country multi-donor trust funds (MDTFs). SPF 1.0 is a demand-driven, catalytic and innovative Fund working on issues of fragility, conflict, and violence with the flexibility to work in both countries on and off the World Bank’s list of Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations, on issues of sub-national conflicts, and in countries in arrears, non-members and middle-income countries. The Fund has five focus areas: Forced Displacement, Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, Prevention and Recovery, Crisis Response, and Financing Solutions. Through this summative Evaluation, the Evaluation Team delivered two reports (Inception Report and Final Evaluation Report) and three presentations (Donor Council Presentation, Preliminary Findings Presentation, and Final Presentation). The evaluation and evaluation criteria were based on the OECD DAC Criteria (Relevance, Coherence and Complementarity, Effectiveness, Outcomes, Sustainability, and Efficiency). 

Universalia evaluated the State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF 1.0) based on the OECD DAC Criteria (Relevance, Coherence and Complementarity, Effectiveness, Outcomes, Sustainability, and Efficiency) and delivered two reports (Inception Report and Final Evaluation Report) and three presentations (Donor Council Presentation, Preliminary Findings Presentation, and Final Presentation). A mixed methods approach was utilized which included designing a three-step sampling strategy to identify 30 projects and two MDTF transfers that reflected the overall portfolio of the Fund. In addition to the final deliverables, the team produced two case studies on SPF 1.0’s portfolio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Republic of the Philippines which included seven-day field missions.