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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…
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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…
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Ghana Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper)

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of World Bank Group support to Ghana in achieving its development objectives between fiscal years (FY)13 and FY23. The evaluation period spans two Bank…
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Making Waves: World Bank Support for the Blue Economy, 2012–23

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.
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Rebuilding relations: Lessons from the World Bank partnership with Ecuador

A new evaluation focuses on World Bank Group efforts to rebuild the partnership with Ecuador after a break in 2007 and offers lessons on remaining engaged in challenging environments and the approach to rebuilding…
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The World Bank Group in Ecuador: Country Program Evaluation, Fiscal Years 2008–22

The World Bank Group in Ecuador

This evaluation assesses the relevance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Ecuador during Fiscal Years 2008-22.  
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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,…
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Kristin Strohecker, IEG Program Manager for Data, Systems, and Staff Learning, Mari Noelle Roquiz, IEG Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, and Tao Tao, IEG Data Scientist.

The Independent Evaluation Group data busters

When you need data, who are you going to call?
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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…
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Data dashboards in poverty, education, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, jobs, and SDGs

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…
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