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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…
Private Sector Advisory Projects
This paper looks at the key methodological challenges of evaluating advisory projects in the private sector and offers practical lessons on incorporating self-evaluation and validation across private sector advisory…
Independent Evaluation Group: FY27 Work Program and Budget and FY28-29 Indicative Plan
The current landscape of Development Aid is characterized by significant uncertainty. The World Bank’s projected global growth rate for 2025 is 2.3%, the lowest since 2008, and the 2020s is anticipated to be the slowest…