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Should the World Bank Group be Lending to Upper-Middle-Income Countries?
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How should the institution’s role evolve as more countries attain upper-middle-income status?How should the institution’s role evolve as more countries attain upper-middle-income status?
Conversations: the Case for Mainstreaming Gender in Evaluation
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In this brief video interview, IEG Director-General Caroline Heider discusses why it is important to integrate gender into evaluation.
In this brief video interview, IEG Director-General Caroline Heider discusses why it is important to integrate gender into evaluation.
Local and Regional Pollution Reduction Co-Benefits from Climate Change Mitigation Interventions: A Literature Review
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IEG’s evaluation on pollution and the World Bank Group commissioned a review of the empirical literature on pollution co-benefits from climate change mitigation interventions, emphasizing air pollution benefits. Such pollution is defined using parameters such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen, and particulate matter for air emissions, and total suspended solids for water releases. The Show MoreIEG’s evaluation on pollution and the World Bank Group commissioned a review of the empirical literature on pollution co-benefits from climate change mitigation interventions, emphasizing air pollution benefits. Such pollution is defined using parameters such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen, and particulate matter for air emissions, and total suspended solids for water releases. The review used a multistage identification technique based on 40 keyword strings in Google Scholar, web of science, and Scopus to identify a universe of peer-reviewed articles. Papers were included only if they focused on developing countries. Additional papers were identified iteratively based on references from the initial papers. The final papers cited were based on expert judgment, with emphasis for studies published after 2010. A systematic search was conducted to locate relevant review articles and meta-analyses; no formal systematic reviews were found. Google was also used to identify non-peer-reviewed studies from reputable sources, such as the International Energy Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and World Bank. The paper lays out the methods and models used in calculating pollution co-benefits, and then presents sector-by-sector results for energy, buildings, industry, transportation, solid and liquid waste management, agriculture, forests/other land use, and multiple sector studies.
Evaluation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Unpacking the Issues
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A structured overview of some of the key evaluative issues and questions around this topic A structured overview of some of the key evaluative issues and questions around this topic
The Future of Higher Education in the Global Economy
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Watch the re-play of a panel discussion about how to support higher education systems in meeting the demands of today's complex global economy.Watch the re-play of a panel discussion about how to support higher education systems in meeting the demands of today's complex global economy.
Serving the Bottom 40 Percent: Are World Bank Group Projects Reaching Those in Need?
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By monitoring of the geographic footprint of the World Bank Group projects, the World Bank Group could better determine whether and to what extent they are located in the areas where the bottom 40 percent live. By monitoring of the geographic footprint of the World Bank Group projects, the World Bank Group could better determine whether and to what extent they are located in the areas where the bottom 40 percent live.
A Thirst for Change: The World Bank Group’s Support for Water Supply and Sanitation
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Watch a re-play of the live event - a discussion about how well the Bank Group is equipped to support countries in moving toward SDG 6- which seeks to “ensure access to water and sanitation for all” by 2030- with a particular focus on the financial viability and accountability of service providers. Watch a re-play of the live event - a discussion about how well the Bank Group is equipped to support countries in moving toward SDG 6- which seeks to “ensure access to water and sanitation for all” by 2030- with a particular focus on the financial viability and accountability of service providers.
Sierra Leone: Integrated Public Finance Management Reform Project (PPAR)
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This report reviews the Integrated Public Financial Management Reform Project in Sierra Leone, which was approved on June 4, 2009, and became effective on December 15, 2009. It closed on July 31, 2014. The project cost of $23.44 million was financed by a $4 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) and $17.44 million in grants from the U.K. Department for International Show MoreThis report reviews the Integrated Public Financial Management Reform Project in Sierra Leone, which was approved on June 4, 2009, and became effective on December 15, 2009. It closed on July 31, 2014. The project cost of $23.44 million was financed by a $4 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) and $17.44 million in grants from the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Union (EU), which were channeled through a multi-donor trust fund administered by IDA. The Government of Sierra Leone made a counterpart contribution of $2 million. The project’s objective was to sustainably improve the credibility, control, and transparency of fiscal and budget management. Five components made up the project: (i) strengthening macrofiscal coordination and budget management, (ii) reinforcing the control system for improved service delivery, (iii) strengthening central finance functions, (iv) assisting oversight by nonstate actors (NSAs), and (v) project management.
Ratings for the Integrated Public Finance Management Reform Project are as follows: Outcome is unsatisfactory. Risk to development outcome, high, World Bank performance is moderately unsatisfactory, and Borrower performance, moderately unsatisfactory. The major lessons from this project include: (i) In the absence of a conducive PFM policy environment, there are clear limits to what can be achieved through investment project financing alone. (ii) Effective support for improving the demand for good governance can benefit from broadening support beyond civil society organizations to include academia, the media, and the private sector. (iii) In the context of low Internet density, effective public dissemination of state documents calls for combining online publication with alternative means of diffusion. (iv) Effective and sustainable World Bank leadership of multi-donor support to PFM reforms requires a continuous effort by staff to consult with external partners. (v) Effective World Bank support for designing and installing information technology systems requires tailoring solutions to address borrower capacity limitations.
Rethinking Evaluation- Tracing the Origins of the DAC Evaluation Criteria
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Understanding the underlying rationale for the "Big 5" DAC evaluation criteria helps us to determine how they might be adapted for the current development context.Understanding the underlying rationale for the "Big 5" DAC evaluation criteria helps us to determine how they might be adapted for the current development context.
IEG News: New partner selected to manage and deliver IPDET 2.0
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IPDET 2.0 will address new topics in evaluation, new modalities of learning and new forms of engagement with actors in the global south.IPDET 2.0 will address new topics in evaluation, new modalities of learning and new forms of engagement with actors in the global south.