Based on the mandate we received from the Quality Assurance Group, we set out to determine how the social funds portfolio, comprising 40 projects under implementation as of June 1996, was faring: How well was this portfolio performing? Was sustainability of social funds’ sub- project benefits an issue? A quick word on the methodology of the review. This was a desk review. Our sources of information were all printed matter on social funds, Bank and non-Bank, and this was complemented with considerable verbal infor- mation and insight derived from interviews with several task managers within the Bank. Most of the team members of the Portfolio Review have also worked firsthand.
