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Understanding the social world in which the World Bank’s investment projects operate is critical to any effort to reduce poverty. The World Bank undertakes social analysis in connection with its lending program in order to determine the suitability of the program for World Bank financing. The World Bank’s concern as a development institution is that resources it lends should make a significant impact on the economic and social development of borrowers. The poverty reduction impact of economic growth is enhanced when development is equitable and sustainable.

This sourcebook presents a conceptual framework for social analysis and describes how task teams can incorporate its principles into project design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Guidance is provided on good practice to improve the quality and impact of social analysis by harnessing it to examine the social opportunities, constraints and likely impacts of Bank-supported operations, based on the lessons learned during the past five years. It describes a systematic approach that places social analysis in the service of poverty reduction by focusing directly on equity and social sustainability to improve social development outcomes.

In this case, social analysis describes an approach that is open-ended in terms of social development outcomes and yet practical. It offers five entry points to understand social complexities. These point out the parts of society most relevant to investment projects and suggest methods for studying them.

The sourcebook is structured as follows :

• Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the guidelines.
• Chapter 2 explores the five entry points of social analysis, with case examples.
• Chapter 3 offers guidance on incorporating social analysis into the project design.
• Chapter 4 treats social assessment.
• Chapter 5 describes some key lessons and future trends of social analysis.

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