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🎧 Lessons from Shifting Paradigms in Disaster Risk Reduction
Disasters caused by natural hazards increasingly threaten the lives and livelihoods of the world’s poor. Climate change is exacerbating the severity and impact of disasters by contributing to more destructive…
What have we learned about job creation in crop agriculture?
This blog is part of a two-part series based on the results of a Learning Engagement focused on ways to increase the contribution of World Bank crop agriculture and fisheries projects to job creation and economic…
Towards greener travel for the holidays and beyond
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recently published an Evaluation Insight Note (EIN) exploring the key challenges and opportunities in the World Bank’s support for decarbonizing transport. The EIN is a new product…
2022 External Review of the Independent Evaluation Group
This is the third External Review of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) commissioned by the World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors (Board) and overseen by the Committee on Development Effectiveness (…
Lessons for building on the World Bank’s unprecedented health and social response to COVID-19
By the time COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the World Bank Group had already committed up to $160 billion in financing in response to the outbreak and had aligned its support with the World Health…
The World Bank and the legacy of the Wapenhans report
Thirty years ago, the Wapenhans report sounded the alarm over the World Bank’s worsening portfolio quality and sparked changes in how the Bank manages the quality of its projects. This blog, the second of a two-part…
Ukraine: Lessons to inform the (hopefully) not too distant future
An evaluation of a decade of World Bank Group support for Ukraine has important lessons for eventual stabilization and reconstruction.
Україна: Досвід, який стане підґрунтям для прийняття рішень у (сподіваємося) недалекому майбутньому
Аналіз допомоги, яку Група Світового банку надавала Україні протягом останніх десяти років, визначає важливі уроки для подальшої стабілізації та відбудови
Executive Search for Director-General, Independent Evaluation Group
About the job
The World Bank Group (www.worldbankgroup.org) (the Bank) is one of the world’s largest sources of development assistance and knowledge for developing countries. It consists of five institutions that…
Evaluation Insight Note: Transport Decarbonization
Evaluation Insight Notes (EIN) offer new insights from existing evidence on important strategic and operational issues. This first EIN identifies patterns in the World Bank’s transport decarbonization work and finds…