World Bank Group Engagement in Health PPPs
An IEG Synthesis Report

From FY04 to FY15, the Bank Group approved 78 projects that provided support for health-related PPP operations, of which 53 were IFC projects (49 of these are advisory projects, and four are IFC investments) and 25 World Bank lending projects. More projects (58 percent) focused on downstream issues (structuring and finance) than on upstream issues (42 percent) of policy and sectoral advice. This synthesis paper builds on previous evaluation work on PPPs and on private sector involvement in health, notably the 2009 Health, Nutrition, and Population Evaluation and the 2013 World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from Experience in Client Countries FY02– 12.