What We Do 

To achieve our goals, we undertake a diverse set of evaluations: 

• To address strategic or systemic issues,
• To focus on specific countries or projects,
• To ensure a systematic assessment of portfolio performance, and
• To promote greater learning from IEG's work. 

We are committed to continuously expanding the use of innovative methods to improve the rigor, quality and usefulness of evaluations. We are also committed to using new data and technologies to answer evaluation questions with greater efficiency, precision, and insight . 

To enhance the effectiveness of our work, we invest in systematic outreach to bring our findings and recommendations to the right stakeholders, at the right time, and in the right format. 

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Our Goals 

Improving World Bank Group Development Results Through Excellence in Evaluation 

IEG's overriding goal is to help the World Bank Group build on its successes and avoid unnecessarily repeating past mistakes. Our two medium-term objectives are: 

• To deepen the evidence about the outcomes of World Bank Group efforts to achieve its goals of accelerating poverty reduction and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. 
• To generate evidence on the early implementation experience of the Better Bank Initiative to inform decisions on scaling up what is working and to course correct where necessary.. By doing so, we also aim to promote a stronger internal culture for , accountability, learning, and outcomes. 

IEG Theory of Change 

IEG has developed a theory of change to clarify how evaluation contributes to the Bank's development effectiveness by fostering learning, accountability for results, and evidence-based decision-making. 

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