World Bank Country Survey 2013

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. 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 Bangladesh, and their geographic location.

B. General Issues Facing Bangladesh:
Respondents were asked to indicate whether Bangladesh is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three most important development priorities and which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty.

C. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank:
Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank's effectiveness in Bangladesh, Bank staff preparedness to help Bangladesh solve its development challenges, the Bank's investigation of corruption allegations under the Padma Bridge Project, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were also asked to indicate the sectoral areas on which it would be most productive for the Bank to focus its resources, the Bank's greatest values and greatest weaknesses, and with which stakeholder groups the Bank should collaborate more.

D. World Bank Effectiveness and Results:
Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results in Bangladesh, the extent to which the Bank meets Bangladesh's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across twenty-eight development areas, such as education.

E. The World Bank's Knowledge Work and Activities:
Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult Bank knowledge work and activities and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge work and activities, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality.

F. 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 working with the World Bank increasing Bangladesh's institutional capacity.

G. The Future Role of the World Bank in Bangladesh:
Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the Bank should play in Bangladesh's development in the near future and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value in Bangladesh, the two areas related to corruption that the Bank should give greater attention, and the extent to which respondents want to see more World Bank involvement in areas related to corruption.

H. 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, their Internet access, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites, Facebook page, and PICs. 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 to evaluate the Bank's information accessibility, responsiveness to information requests, aspects of the Bank's public communications, and communications specific to the Padma Bridge case.