INFOGRAPHIC: Impact of Interventions on Early Childhood Development Outcomes
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See the impact of interventions on early childhood development outcomes.
See the impact of interventions on early childhood development outcomes.
INFOGRAPHIC: Early Childhood Interventions - Where are the Knowledge Gaps?
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Find out how follow-up impact evaluations can stregthen evidence on the later-life effects of early childhood interventions.
Find out how follow-up impact evaluations can stregthen evidence on the later-life effects of early childhood interventions.
Infographic: Financial Inclusion - A foothold on the ladder to prosperity?
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Find out what IEG recommends the World Bank Group do to reach the 2 billion people worldwide who lack access to financial services.
Find out what IEG recommends the World Bank Group do to reach the 2 billion people worldwide who lack access to financial services.
Video: World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access
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Almost 1.1 billion people in the world still have no access to electricity. See what the Independent Evaluation Group recommends the World Bank Group do to support the global electricity access challenge.
Almost 1.1 billion people in the world still have no access to electricity. See what the Independent Evaluation Group recommends the World Bank Group do to support the global electricity access challenge.
Video: World Bank Group Support to Financial Inclusion
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Watch a short video summary of the findings of IEG's recent evaluation: Financial Inclusion - A Foothold on the Ladder toward Prosperity?
Watch a short video summary of the findings of IEG's recent evaluation: Financial Inclusion - A Foothold on the Ladder toward Prosperity?
What is Monitoring and Evaluation?
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Monitoring can be defined as: "A continuing function that uses systematic collection of data on specified indicators to provide management and the main stakeholders of an ongoing development intervention with indications of the extent of progress and achievement of objectives and progress in the use of allocated funds". See Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Glossary Show MoreMonitoring can be defined as: "A continuing function that uses systematic collection of data on specified indicators to provide management and the main stakeholders of an ongoing development intervention with indications of the extent of progress and achievement of objectives and progress in the use of allocated funds". See Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management (Terms are presented in English, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). Thus monitoring embodies the regular tracking of inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts of development activities at the project, program, sector and national levels. This includes the monitoring of a country's progress against the millennium development goals (MDGs), or other national measures of development success.
Evaluation can be defined as "the process of determining the worth or significance of a development activity, policy or program .. to determine the relevance of objectives, the efficacy of design and implementation, the efficiency or resource use, and the sustainability of results. An evaluation should (enable) the incorporation of lessons learned into the decision-making process of both partner and donor".
Monitoring and evaluation are synergistic. Monitoring information is a necessary but not sufficient input to the conduct of rigorous evaluations. While monitoring information can be collected and used for ongoing management purposes, reliance on such information on its own can introduce distortions because it typically covers only certain dimensions of a project's or program's activities, and careful use of this information is needed to avoid unintended behavioral incentives. In contrast, evaluation has the potential to provide a more balanced interpretation of performance. But evaluation is a more detailed and time-consuming activity, and because of its greater cost it needs to be conducted more sparingly. One approach is to rely on monitoring information to identify potential problem issues requiring more detailed investigation via an evaluation.
M&E can be conducted using a wide array of tools, methods and approaches. These include, for example: performance monitoring indicators; the logical framework; theory-based evaluation; formal surveys such as service delivery surveys, citizen report cards, living standards measurement surveys (LSMS) and core welfare indicators questionnaires (CWIQ); rapid appraisal methods such as key informant interviews, focus group discussions and facilitated brainstorming by staff and officials; participatory methods such as participatory M&E; public expenditure tracking surveys; rigorous impact evaluation; and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis.
2013 IEG Good Practice Awards
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The IEG Good Practice Awards highlight exemplary design and implementation in World Bank projects and country programs, and excellence in self-evaluation in World Bank, IFC and MIGA operations. The purpose is to create incentives among staff for greater development effectiveness.
2013 IEG Good Practice Award Winners
Country Program Award for a Fragile State (Specific Aspects)
Show MoreThe IEG Good Practice Awards highlight exemplary design and implementation in World Bank projects and country programs, and excellence in self-evaluation in World Bank, IFC and MIGA operations. The purpose is to create incentives among staff for greater development effectiveness.
2013 IEG Good Practice Award Winners
Country Program Award for a Fragile State (Specific Aspects)
Afghanistan Country Program, Fiscal 2002-11
Country Program Award for Treatment of Governance and Anti-Corruption Issues
Bangladesh Country Program, Fiscal 2006-10
Project Award
Guatemala Financial Sector Project
Award for Products with a Demonstrated Contribution
Lending
India Gujarat State Highway Project
Non-Lending/AAA
China 'Reducing Inequality for Shared Growth In China: Strategy and Policy Options for Guangdong Province'
M&E Quality Award
Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS) analysis of outcome trends in investment lending projects over Fiscal 2000-10.
ICR Quality Award
Serbia Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project Implementation Completion Report (ICR) (Report No. ICR 2076)
Benin Malaria Control Booster Program ICR (Report No. ICR 2042)
XPSR Awards
Endesa Brasil
Stomana II (Bulgaria)
Access GEM (Nigeria)
PNOC (EDC) (Philippines)
GeoPark (Latin America)
PCR Awards
BTC Advisory (Botswana)
Zambia Kafue Gorge Lower Hydroelectric Power Plan
XPSR Department Award
Infrastructure and Natural Resources Department â Asia
PER Award
Botnia Uruguay
Société Burkinabé de Promotion Hôtelière S.A. (Burkina Faso)
The World Bank Group and the Electricity Access Challenge
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Learn what the IEG recommends the World Bank Group do to help achieve Universal Electricity Access by 2030.
Learn what the IEG recommends the World Bank Group do to help achieve Universal Electricity Access by 2030.
VIDEO: World Bank Group's support for Early Childhood Development
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Early development plays a major role in a childâ s school performance, health, and socialization and future earnings. IEGâ s evaluation of the World Bank Groupâ s support for early childhood development examines the Bankâ s design and implementation of operations that support interventions for young children and their families.
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World Bank Show MoreEarly development plays a major role in a childâ s school performance, health, and socialization and future earnings. IEGâ s evaluation of the World Bank Groupâ s support for early childhood development examines the Bankâ s design and implementation of operations that support interventions for young children and their families.
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World Bank Support to Early Childhood Development
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Infographic: Early Childhood Interventions - Where are the Knowledge Gaps?
Infographic: Impact of Interventions on Early Childhood Development Outcomes
VIDEO: The Benefits of Investing in Young Children
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Early childhood development can be one of the most cost-effective interventions for policymakers. Watch this video about a groundbreaking IEG report that explores the benefits of investing in young children and how such investments can persist into school and beyond.
Early childhood development can be one of the most cost-effective interventions for policymakers. Watch this video about a groundbreaking IEG report that explores the benefits of investing in young children and how such investments can persist into school and beyond.