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Professionalizing Evaluation: What More Is There to Say?
Can we undo the Gordian knot once and for all and decide whether we need accreditation, credentialing and certification?
Managing Evaluations: A How-To Guide For Managers and Commissioners of Evaluations
Evaluations serve two main functions--accountability and learning. They provide an "account" to stakeholders about the extent to which resources are being, or were, used efficiently and effectively, and degree to which…
The Changing Landscape of Development Evaluation Training: A Rapid Review
A key area of IEG's mandate focuses on developing the WBG's client countries' capacities in monitoring and evaluation. IEG undertook a process of identifying and reviewing current M&E learning opportunities…
Taking the Pulse: How Can the World Bank Group Perform Better?
We will explore new initiatives to help improve quality and performance of projects across the Bank Group.
Learning and Results in World Bank Operations: Toward a New Learning Strategy
This report is the second in a program of evaluations that the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is conducting on the learning that takes place through World Bank projects. Learning and knowledge are treated as parts…
Professionalizing Evaluation - The Canadian Experience
The President of the Canadian Evaluation Society talks to IEG about taking the first step towards professionalization.
World Bank Group Support to Industrial Competitiveness and Its Implications for Jobs (Approach Paper)
This evaluation directly fills a gap in that it addresses a topic that, although of growing importance to the World Bank Group and its clients, has not been comprehensively evaluated to date. Earlier evaluations by the…
World Bank Support to Early Childhood Development
This evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group examines the Bank's design and implementation of projects across sectors supporting ECD interventions to inform future operations and provide inputs to the new Global…
How Does Knowledge on Public Expenditures Integrate with the Design of Development Policy Operations?
Integration of knowledge with lending is an enduring theme in World Bank strategies at the corporate and country levels. The Bank lending instruments could be more relevant and produce better results if they…
Maximizing Development Impact in IDA (Concept Note)
Numerous IEG evaluations address issues that are relevant to IDA's development impact. With the aim of helping inform the discussions for the IDA18 replenishment, the planned learnig product will use a desk exercise to…