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Balancing innovation and rigor: Guidance on how to thoughtfully integrate AI in evaluation
Understanding how to leverage the potential of AI for evaluation will require continuous experimentation, learning and adaptation. A recently developed guidance note offers recommendations for how to design experiments…
Confronting the Learning Crisis: In nine figures
Lessons from the Independent Evaluation Group’s assessment of World Bank Group support for improving basic education in partner countries, from 2012 and 2022.
Process Tracing Method in Program Evaluation
This paper explores Process Tracing as an evaluation method, providing a step-by-step guide and highlighting its advantages and limitations in evaluating interventions and their outcomes.
🎧 Lessons on creating more and better jobs in low-income countries
Supporting the creation of more, better, and more inclusive jobs is critical towards achieving the goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity in countries. This is especially true for low-income countries that…
Evaluating the Knowledge Bank: Four Takeaways on how the World Bank Learns in Lending
A new Independent Evaluation Group report assesses the World Bank’s approach to knowledge and learning in its lending operations. Its findings could support ongoing efforts to enhance the institution’s performance as a…
The World Bank Group in the Federal Republic of Somalia
This evaluation assesses the World Bank Group’s support to the Federal Republic of Somalia during fiscal years 2013–23, with a focus on the evolution and relevance of its strategy and engagement, contributions to state…
🎧 Lessons on improving learning outcomes in basic education
Countries worldwide are facing a learning crisis with high levels of learning poverty, especially, among the poorest communities. Learning poverty is the share of children younger than 10 years of age, who are not…
Learning in World Bank Lending
This evaluation assesses the World Bank’s approach to knowledge and learning in its lending operations with the aim of supporting the Bank’s ongoing efforts to enhance its performance as a “Knowledge Bank.”
How the World Bank Group can aim for transformative change in the lives of women and girls
The World Bank Group has been supporting countries to create equal opportunities and promoting equal rights for women and men, boys and girls. By enhancing how it measures the outcomes of these efforts, the Bank Group…