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IEG as a Learning Organization
How do you ensure that lessons learned from evaluations are reaching those who could most benefit? An initiative begun by IEG staff in 2013 is already showing results.
Agriculture and Environmental Services: Lessons from Recent Evaluations
This Lesson Note summarizes lessons from IEG evaluations on the WBG's Agricultural and Environmental initiatives.
Lessons from Recent Evaluations: Water, Urban, Transport and Energy
This Lesson note summarizes lessons from IEG evaluations on the WBG's water, urban, transport and energy initiatives.
Mozambique - Decentralized Planning and Finance Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) reviews the Mozambique Decentralized Planning and Financing Project (2004 to 2009). Its objective was to improve the institutional performance of Mozambique's District…
Measurement Mantra
The World Bank Group has a proud history of empirically-based decision-making and advice to client countries, leadership in results measurement and aid effectiveness, ground-breaking work in impact evaluation and Open…
External Evaluation – A Guarantee for Independence?
Why is independence so important? The simple answer is trust. Public institutions, such as the World Bank Group, need to account for the resources entrusted to them and the results they promised to achieve. Self-…
The World Bank and Public Procurement - Volume II: Achieving Development Effectiveness through Procurement in Bank Financial Assistance
World Bank financed investment lending operations constitute a significant element of public procurement in client countries; therefore, the Bank's own procurement policies and processes affect the development impact of…
Clustered Country Program Evaluation For Resource Rich Developing Countries: Cases of Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Zambia
IEG's first Cluster Country Program Evaluation (CCPE) will focus on Resource Rich Developing Countries (RRDCs) in Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Zambia. The topic of extraction, management, and use of natural…
In South Africa, using evaluation to improve government effectiveness
Since 2009 the Government of South Africa has put a major emphasis on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as a way of transforming public sector service delivery. The key champion is the newly established Department of…
Mexico - Rural Finance Development Structural Adjustment Project
The Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) assesses the Mexico Rural Finance Development Structural Adjustment Loan that was approved in May 2003 and closed in December 2005. This review informs a broader…