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Learning from the past for a brighter future: strategic priorities for evaluation
High quality evaluations that promote accountability, learning and evidence-based decisions have a vital role in today’s complex development landscape. The Independent Evaluation Group aims to increase the value and…
Biodiversity for a Livable Planet: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support for Biodiversity (FY15–24) (Approach Paper)
Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and scale. Biodiversity is the variety of plant and animal life in habitats or ecosystems. Biodiversity…
Making Waves
This evaluation assesses how well the World Bank is supporting a blue economy approach to achieve sustainable and inclusive development of ocean and coastal states.
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) Work Program and Budget (FY25) and Indicative Plan (FY26-27)
IEG’s updated FY25 work program and FY26-27 indicative plan is recentered to address the long-term strategic priorities laid out in the Evolution Roadmap, including the “Five Verticals” of the WBG (People, Planet,…
Early-Stage Evaluation of the Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA) (Approach Paper)
The multiphase programmatic approach (MPA) is a way of structuring a long, large, or complex engagement—typically over 8–10 years—either as a set of smaller linked operations or phases using investment project financing…
What can we learn from the Independent Evaluation Group’s project ratings and lessons?
This blog offers three scenarios for how data generated by the Independent Evaluation Group might be used to understand the performance of projects in a specific sector, the factors contributing to a set of highly rated…
Harnessing data for better development: The Independent Evaluation Group dashboards
The IEG Data Page is a hub for three dashboards that can lead to insights from data generated by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG): the World Bank (WB) Project Ratings Dashboard, WB Project Lessons Dashboard, and…
World Bank's Experts Promoting Evaluation Capacity Building with IPDET 2024
This year, IPDET participants will once again have the invaluable opportunity to learn from evaluation experts from the World Bank’s various departments. who will lead three of the twelve workshops in the IPDET On-Site…
Unlocking the potential of geospatial analysis for evaluation
A recent symposium on geospatial analysis hosted by the Independent Evaluation Group convened experts from across fields and organizations to share experiences on geospatial analysis and to lay the foundations for…