A strong demand for the opportunity to share experiences and views with stakeholder con- stituencies was strongly supported by the staff of the World Bank in charge of the design and supervision of the credits and loans that finance the implementation of social funds. The insti- tutional interest in the subject was confirmed by two recent studies of social funds: the World Bank’s Review of the Social Funds Portfolio, which was a desk review, and the Inter-American Development Bank’s Social Investment Funds in Latin America: Past Performance and Future Role, based on field work carried out in eight countries and on the review of evaluations of.
