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Colombian family whose home floods every year creating hazardous living conditions.

Building Resilience through Disaster Risk Management-3 Lessons from Colombia

This brief captures the lessons learned from evaluating the World Bank’s Bank’s Colombia Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan.
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Turkey - Completion and learning review for the period FY12 - FY16 : IEG review

Turkey is an upper middle income country with a GNI per capita of USD 9,950 dollars in current US dollars (2015).The government set out its objectives in the Ninth Development Plan for 2007-13 and the 2012-14 Medium-…
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Conversations: Is Off-Grid Electrification the Key to Sustainable Energy for All?

Conversations: Is Off-Grid Electrification the Key to Sustainable Energy for All?

Highlights of an expert discussion about the commercial viability and potential of off-grid technologies.
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Technology and Evaluation: The Evaluator’s Perspective

Technology and Evaluation: The Evaluator’s Perspective

A reflection on the exponential growth of opportunities to collect, analyze, and visualize data provided by the evolution of information and communications technology (ICT).
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ICT and Evaluation -  Man versus Machine?

Technology and Evaluation - Man versus Machine?

The first in a series of reflections on the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution and how it will impact evaluation in the not-so-distant future.
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Conversations: Are multilateral development banks still relevant today?

Conversations: Are multilateral development banks still relevant today?

Leaders from the major multilateral development banks, gathered in Rome for the Spring Meetings of the Evaluation Cooperation Group, discussed the future and relevance of multilateral development banks (MDBs).
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Moldova - Completion and learning review for country assistance strategy for the period FY14-FY17 : IEG review

Moldova is a small, lower-middle income economy with a GNI per capita of $2,240 in 2015 (a decline from 2014). In 2015, the economy suffered from an adverse external environment, a summer drought, and a banking crisis,…
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The renovated water treatment plant in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: © Arne Hoel / World Bank

Third Party Monitoring in Volatile Environments - Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?

The use of third party monitoring as a risk management tool in volatile countries raises important quality, ethical, and technical issues.
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How to Tackle Global Fragility and Violence

How to Tackle Global Fragility and Violence - Focus on Middle-Income Countries

When looking at fragility and conflict in a middle-income setting, the main drivers and dynamics can often be very different than in low-income countries.
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Peru : rural electrification project

Peru has been one of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region’s fastest-growing economies. It grew an average 6.2 percent between 2004 and 2013. Moderate poverty was more than halved from 58 percent to 22 percent of…
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