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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.
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…
What role should environmental considerations play in evaluation?
Environmental considerations must be implemented across all our evaluation work in a strategically selective way for maximum impact.
🎧 Lessons on creating an enabling environment for private sector climate action
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Climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is an urgent challenge, and the poorest communities around the world are likely to be hit the hardest…
Creating an Enabling Environment for Private Sector Climate Action
This evaluation assesses the Bank Group’s efforts to improve the enabling environment for private sector climate action.
🎧 Boosting Energy Efficiency to Power a Green Future
Boosting energy efficiency is critical for addressing climate change. The energy sector is estimated to account for more than two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions globally and improving energy efficiency…
Untapped potential for decarbonization: Scaling up energy efficiency
Using less energy to do the same work is the single action with the biggest potential gain on decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere. A new report assesses World Bank Group support for energy…