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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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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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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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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…
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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.
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Reaching women and girls in fragile countries - in nine figures

Lessons from the Independent Evaluation Group’s assessment of World Bank Group support on promoting women’s and girls’ economic empowerment and addressing gender-based violence in FCV countries
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Celebrating women in evaluation

IEG is celebrating the remarkable contribution of women to the evaluation practice. Listen to some of them as they share perspectives on gender equality, how they continue to push for progress, and their message to…
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🎧 Reaching women and girls trapped in violence and conflict

🎧 Reaching women and girls trapped in violence and conflict

Listen on: Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Women and girls living in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence face multiple barriers that marginalize them from economic life and put them at a…
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Addressing gender inequalities in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence

Addressing gender inequalities in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence

A recent evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) finds that achieving relevant, deep, impactful, and sustainable change to advance gender equality in fragile environments requires a comprehensive country…
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