Using Evaluation to Enhance the Performance of Development Partnerships
What do we know about the performance of partnership programs, and how can evaluation enhance their effectiveness?
Evaluation Capacity: Central to Achieving the SDGs
Now that the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear) is drawing to a close, what's next?
How can the World Bank help address institutional capacity development needs in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Institutions shape how countries foster poverty reduction, support sustainable growth, and respond during crises. A recent Evaluation Insight Note reviews existing evidence to understand how the World Bank can help…
How complicated does the (Intervention) Model have to be?
Even though simple models are incomplete and inadequate for some questions, more elaborate models are not necessarily generating more accurate predictions or explanations of reality.
What's Next? 2015 Mid-Year of Evaluation Reflection
With landmark development events coming later this year, IEG's Director General reflects on the Year of Evaluation, and asks "what's next" for evaluation
Rethinking Evaluation - Efficiency, Efficiency, Efficiency
In times of resource constraints – have there ever been days without? – one would think “efficiency” is at the top of the agenda for almost everyone. Unfortunately, we have seen limitations to this evaluation criterion…
We come in Peace! (from "Mars Attacks!")
To get the best development results, evaluators and project managers must see beyond the mutual distrust, and instead focus on asking the right questions
Value for Money - Getting it Right During the Evaluation Process
Why focus on Value-for-Money ? Isn't this part of evaluation practice well established by now?
Evaluation Capacity: Who Needs It?
Who needs evaluation capacity? Years ago the answer to this question would have been the donor community. This situation has changed dramatically in the last couple of years. Many more countries are setting up…
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?