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What does quality contribution analysis look like in practice? New guidance for evaluators
Contribution analysis has gained traction as a useful approach for critically assessing how an intervention contributes to complex change processes. A recently developed guidance note offers the evaluation community…
Quality Guidance for Contribution Analysis in Practice
This guidance sets out good practice for using contribution analysis in complex evaluation contexts. It aims to support evaluators and decisionmakers in producing clear and credible accounts of how interventions…
Beyond the Hype: Why GeoAI needs its own Ethics and Transparency Approach
The use of geospatial AI, or GeoAI, unlocks new insights for evaluators and shapes evaluation findings. Drawing on real-world applications from the Independent Evaluation Group, we examine why it is essential to…
IEG Annual Report 2025: From Evidence to Engagement
This Annual Report presents IEG’s efforts to amplify the impact of evaluative evidence across and beyond the World Bank Group.
Quality first: the Independent Evaluation Group’s AI strategy
Our approach to AI is focused on unlocking its immense potential for evaluation while staying laser focused on quality and rigor.
Meet Diana Stanescu: A data scientist’s journey to the Independent Evaluation Group methods team
For International Women's Month, IEG highlights the diverse contributions of women in evaluation. This second piece spotlights Diana Stanescu, methods advisor to evaluation teams, managing editor of IEG's Methods Papers…
Driving impact in human capital: Lessons from World Bank Group engagement with Indonesia
This blog, focused on support for human capital, draws on findings from an evaluation of the World Bank Group program in Indonesia from FY13 to FY23. The evaluation identified factors that helped drive results in areas…
Managing a Shared Resource: The World Bank Group’s Support for Water Resource Management (Approach Paper)
Water is fundamental to nearly every dimension of development—food production, energy generation, public health, industrial output, and overall resilience (IPCC 2022; Smith 2022; United Nations 2024).1 Yet water…
Elena Bardasi: Building Gender Evaluation From the Ground Up
For International Women's Month, IEG highlights the diverse contributions of women in evaluation. This first piece tracks the remarkable career of Elena Bardasi, who in many respects built gender evaluation from the…
Artificial Intelligence Strategy: The Independent Evaluation Group’s Journey of Discovery
IEG's Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy marks an important milestone in its journey of continuous experimentation, learning, and adaptation to integrate AI in evaluation. It reaffirms IEG's commitment to scale up…