World Bank Country Survey 2013

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues Facing Honduras:
Respondents were asked to indicate whether Honduras is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three most important development priorities in the country, and whether they think the Bank is effectively investing to support these priorities.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank:
Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank's effectiveness in Honduras, Bank staff preparedness to help Honduras solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were asked to indicate the Bank's greatest values, the most effective instruments in helping to reduce poverty in Honduras, with which stakeholder groups the Bank should collaborate more, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Effectiveness and Results:
Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results in Honduras, the extent to which the Bank meets Honduras's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across sixteen development areas, such as education, anti-corruption, job creation/employment, and crime and violence.

D. The World Bank's Knowledge:
Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult Bank knowledge and research, to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge and research, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality, and to rate how effective the Bank is at providing linkage to non-Bank expertise.

E. Working with the World Bank:
Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Honduras's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank in Honduras:
Respondents were asked to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value, what would be the most valuable ways the Bank could support Honduras's efforts to see through pro poor growth, and what would be the most valuable ways the Bank could support the country's efforts to decrease the levels of crime and violence in Honduras.

G. Communication and Information Sharing:
Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, past information requests from the Bank, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank as a result of the Bank's Open Data policy. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank, that the Bank's websites are easy to navigate and useful, and that the Bank is responsive to information requests. Respondents were also asked to indicate what connection they primarily use when visiting a Bank website, whether they use/have used the Bank's Public Information Centers (PICs) in Honduras, and whether they find the Bank's PIC a valuable source of information related to the development in Honduras.

H. Background Information:
Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank, their exposure to the Bank in Honduras, and their geographic location.