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Artificial Intelligence Strategy: The Independent Evaluation Group’s Journey of Discovery
IEG's Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy marks an important milestone in its journey of continuous experimentation, learning, and adaptation to integrate AI in evaluation. It reaffirms IEG's commitment to scale up…
Private Sector Advisory Projects
This paper looks at the key methodological challenges of evaluating advisory projects in the private sector and offers practical lessons on incorporating self-evaluation and validation across private sector advisory…
Independent Evaluation Group: FY27 Work Program and Budget and FY28-29 Indicative Plan
The current landscape of Development Aid is characterized by significant uncertainty. The World Bank’s projected global growth rate for 2025 is 2.3%, the lowest since 2008, and the 2020s is anticipated to be the slowest…
Why are monitoring and evaluation systems a core development issue?
Strong M&E systems are essential for effective governance and accountability, yet many developing countries still lack them. This blog post highlights the need for a more coherent and unified approach to…
The World Bank Group in Indonesia
This evaluation assesses the World Bank Group’s support to Indonesia from Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 to FY23. The evaluation aims to inform the Bank Group’s ongoing engagement in …
Climate and Natural Disaster–Resilient Transport: Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Support, 2016–25 (Approach Paper)
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is conducting an evaluation of the World Bank Group’s transport interventions to improve resilience to climate and natural disasters and ensure reliable, accessible transportation…
Evaluation of the International Development Association Country Allocation System (Approach Paper)
The International Development Association (IDA) is the largest source of long-term concessional financing for the world’s poorest countries. Since 1960, IDA has delivered more than US$600 billion in grants and credits…
The World Bank Group in Ethiopia, Fiscal Years 2013-23
This evaluation assesses the World Bank Group’s support to Ethiopia from Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 to FY23. The evaluation aims to inform the Bank Group’s ongoing engagement in Ethiopia and the next Country Partnership…
🎧 Building a Knowledge Bank: Lessons from World Bank Lending
What does it take for the World Bank Group to truly become a knowledge bank?
In this episode of What Have We Learned? we explore findings from IEG’s recent evaluation Learning in World…
World Bank Group Support to Kosovo, Fiscal Years 2012–25: Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper)
This Country Program Evaluation assesses the performance of the World Bank Group’s assistance to Kosovo from FY 2012 to FY25. The evaluation covers three Bank Group strategy periods: (i) the FY12–16 Country Partnership…