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The Complexity of Estimating the Value and Costs of an Evaluation
How do we estimate, or even calculate the value for money (VfM) from any given evaluation?
Toward a Clean World for All An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support for Pollution Management (Approach Paper)
Pollution takes an enormous toll, both in terms of impact on healthy lives and environmental
degradation—to the extent that it jeopardizes progress made in poverty alleviation. While the 2001
World Bank…
Financial Viability of the Electricity Sector in Developing Countries: Recent Trends and Effectiveness of World Bank Interventions
This learning product aims to provide lessons from experience about successful practices related to World Bank Group interventions during fiscal years (FY) 2000-15 in supporting client countries for improving the…
Behind the Mirror: A Report on the Self-Evaluation Systems of the World Bank Group
(also known as the ROSES Report) The World Bank Group began using self-evaluation to measure the outcomes of its investments 40 years ago. The systems cover most operational activities. This evaluation seeks to assess…
VIDEO: Assessment of Transformational Engagements
Video - Transformational engagements are a critical pillar of the World Bank Group’s strategy for achieving its twin goals of extreme poverty elimination and shared prosperity.
Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
The concept of “Sustainable Communities” of the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience (SURR) Global Practice includes four key dimensions:
First, Sustainable Communities are environmentally…
Water and Sanitation
Helping countries achieve water security for all lies at the core of the World Bank Group’s goals: to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030 and boost shared prosperity for the poorest 40%
Launched in 2014, the World Bank…
World Bank Group Processes and Reforms
IEG evaluates how well the World Bank Group’s policies, processes, and instruments work. These evaluations cut across sectors and practices. For example, we review:
Lending instruments
Corporate strategies…
Agile Evaluation
How can evaluators shorten response times without compromising the quality of analysis, the strength of the evidence-base, and the validity of findings?
Energy and Extractives
Expanding access to modern energy services is a cornerstone of the World Bank’s objectives, as laid out in the World Bank Group’s Energy Sector Directions Paper.
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