Evaluation Insight Note: Elements That Enhance Institutional Capacity Development in World Bank Projects and Country Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa
Evaluation Insight Notes (EIN) offer new insights from existing evidence on important strategic and operational issues. This EIN draws on Independent Evaluation Group evidence to identify lessons for addressing…
Opening Remarks by Director-General, Evaluation, Sabine Bernabè at the Inauguration of IEG@50
IEG@50: REPLAY
As prepared for delivery
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening.
Let me first offer a warm welcome to everyone. Thank you very much for joining us for this inaugural event of…
Allocution d’ouverture de Mme Sabine Bernabè, directrice générale pour l’évaluation, lors de la cérémonie de lancement de IEG@50
IEG@50: REVOIR
Seul le prononcé fait foi.
Bonjour, bon après-midi ou bonsoir.
Permettez-moi tout d’abord de vous souhaiter à tous une cordiale bienvenue. Merci beaucoup de vous être joints à nous pour…
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.
Always searching for how we can do things better
Before joining the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) in early August of this year, I was a great admirer of its work. IEG has been a global standard setter, in terms of rigor and quality but also as regards the role…
Unfulfilled Promises: Using GPT for Synthetic Tasks
In our previous blogs, we shared our findings and recommendations for six experiments that ended up working quite well. For the next three experiments, we wanted to test GPT’s performance on more advanced tasks that…
The World Bank Group’s 2018 Capital Increase Package
This report presents the Independent Evaluation Group’s validation of the World Bank Group’s 2018 capital increase package (CIP). It assesses the World Bank Group’s progress in implementing the CIP’s policy measures and…
Financial Inclusion
This evaluation explores how and with what effect the World Bank Group has supported financial inclusion for the microenterprises, poor households, women, and other excluded groups.
Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response: Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation of the World Bank’s Contribution (Approach Paper)
Interconnected and often devastating covariate shocks are a threat to human development. Covariate shocks are shocks that affect large numbers of people or communities at once and can be natural, economic, or political…