🎧 Boosting Energy Efficiency to Power a Green Future
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Boosting energy efficiency is critical for addressing climate change. The energy sector is estimated to account for more than two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions globally and improving energy efficiency could contribute up to 40% towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Are the World Bank and its partners fully realizing the immense potential of energy efficiency advancements Show More
Boosting energy efficiency is critical for addressing climate change. The energy sector is estimated to account for more than two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions globally and improving energy efficiency could contribute up to 40% towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Are the World Bank and its partners fully realizing the immense potential of energy efficiency advancements? What factors are slowing down the scaling up of impactful energy efficiency interventions?
In this episode, Marialisa Motta and Ramachandra Jammi join host Jeff Chelsky to unpack lessons from IEG’s evaluation on World Bank Group Support to Demand-Side Energy Efficiency. Marialisa is manager of IEG’s Finance Private Sector Infrastructure and Sustainable Development Evaluation Unit and Rama is Senior Evaluation Officer in IEG and is the lead of IEG’s energy efficiency evaluation.
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IEG @50 Timeline
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The World Bank’s Role in, and Use of the Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework
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The evaluation draws lessons for the World Bank to strengthen its role in the preparation and use of the World Bank–International Monetary Fund Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework. It also suggests issues that could be considered in upcoming reviews of the Framework.
The evaluation draws lessons for the World Bank to strengthen its role in the preparation and use of the World Bank–International Monetary Fund Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework. It also suggests issues that could be considered in upcoming reviews of the Framework.
The World Bank Group's Engagement in Morocco 2011-21
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This report assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Morocco between fiscal years 2011 and 2021
This report assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Morocco between fiscal years 2011 and 2021
World Bank Support for Domestic Revenue Mobilization
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This evaluation assessed the relevance and effectiveness of World Bank–supported strategies and interventions to help client countries enhance domestic revenue mobilization, a crucial component for financing sustainable development.
This evaluation assessed the relevance and effectiveness of World Bank–supported strategies and interventions to help client countries enhance domestic revenue mobilization, a crucial component for financing sustainable development.
Evaluation Insight Note: Domestic Revenue Mobilization
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Evaluation Insight Notes (EIN) offer new insights from existing evidence on important strategic and operational issues. This EIN is focused on World Bank support for Domestic Revenue Mobilization, drawing insights from past evaluations to inform future operations.
Evaluation Insight Notes (EIN) offer new insights from existing evidence on important strategic and operational issues. This EIN is focused on World Bank support for Domestic Revenue Mobilization, drawing insights from past evaluations to inform future operations.
Evaluation Insight Note: Integrating Resilience into Food Security Operations
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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 integrating resilience into food security operations. 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 integrating resilience into food security operations.
Culturally responsive evaluation: How do different regions approach it?
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The event is part of the celebrations around IEG@50 and will also announce an essay competition for Young & Emerging Evaluators (YEE).The event is part of the celebrations around IEG@50 and will also announce an essay competition for Young & Emerging Evaluators (YEE).
Brazil : Sustainable Production in Areas Previously Converted to Agricultural Use Project
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This is a Project Performance
Assessment Report by the Independent Evaluation Group of the
World Bank Group on the Sustainable Production in Areas
Previously Converted to Agricultural Use (P143184) project
in Brazil. Focusing on the Cerrado biome—a savanna-forest
mosaic located in central Brazil—the project was intended to Show MoreThis is a Project Performance
Assessment Report by the Independent Evaluation Group of the
World Bank Group on the Sustainable Production in Areas
Previously Converted to Agricultural Use (P143184) project
in Brazil. Focusing on the Cerrado biome—a savanna-forest
mosaic located in central Brazil—the project was intended to
shed light on the best way to provide private landholders on
midsize farms with the knowledge and skills needed to adopt
low-carbon technologies. The project, which was designed to
include 9 of the 11 Cerrado states, was an adjunct to
Brazil’s Low-Carbon Emissions Agriculture (Agricultura de
Baixa Emissão de Carbono; ABC) Plan, which supported
technology transfer investments of $6.7 billion between 2010
and 2020, making it one of the largest climate-smart
agriculture programs in the world. The project sponsored a
randomized control trial to measure the effectiveness of
training plus technical assistance in promoting technology
adoption compared with training alone and with a control
group of farmers who received no training or technical
assistance. At appraisal, the project development objective
was to promote the adoption of selected sustainable
low-carbon-emitting agricultural technologies by midsize
producers in the Cerrado region. The objective was not
altered during implementation. Ratings for this project are
as follows: Outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was
moderately satisfactory, and Quality of monitoring and
evaluation was substantial. This assessment offers the
following five lessons: (i) Agencies signed up to deliver
training and technical assistance to an extensive area, such
as an agricultural region, need to have a strong
decentralized presence and well-established outreach to
producers to deliver good results. (ii) Once they have been
persuaded of the profitability of adopting improved farming
practices, farmers with adequate means are likely to be
willing to pay for technical assistance. (iii) Impact
evaluations that rely on randomized control trials can
produce compelling findings about the constraints to
adopting new farming technologies; however, it is
challenging to accommodate the needs of control-group
farmers who are among beneficiary farmers but denied project
benefits. The design of these impact evaluations may
actually reduce a project’s total impact. (iv) The gains
from a one-off evaluation of impact are likely less
substantial than the rewards from building a systematic and
well-integrated system of monitoring that remains in place
for the long term. (v) This assessment confirms an age-old
lesson: technology transfer depends on effective
collaboration between research and extension agencies.