Moving towards a Sustainable, Inclusive, and Resilient Recovery

Evaluation Headlines is an online interview series launched by the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank IED at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In these series, which are a response to the huge need for new knowledge for evaluators and the development community on how best independent evaluations can support their organizations respond effectively to the COVID-19 crisis, IED’s Saleha Waseem speaks to heads of offices of independent evaluations. In this edition of Evaluation Headlines, Alison Evans, Director General of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank and Marvin Taylor-Dormond, former Director General of the Independent Evaluation Department at the Asian Development Bank discuss ways in which offices of independent evaluations can support their organizations in strengthening the use and potential of the SDGs which offers a blueprint for building back better from COVID-19 and other crises, with a focus on green, inclusive, and resilient growth.