Evaluations by the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Independent Evaluation Department (IED 2012 and 2013) of ADB's financing to deal with natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific region shed light on the effectiveness of projects implemented to respond to a variety of these…
OVE's Annual Report summarizes and explores key themes from 15 evaluation published in 2016. Additionally, this report includes the results of OVE's first round of validations on the progress made by management implementing OVE's recommendations, tracked in the Recommendations…
The Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) requested that the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) produce this technical study to inform IIC's future equity business. The core content of this study is a comparative benchmarking of equity…
Middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face several evolving development challenges, including poverty, inequality, unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation and climate change, low productivity and lack of competitiveness, macroeconomic instability, and insufficient economic…
As part of its 2015-16 work plan, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) prepared the evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) country program with Trinidad and Tobago for the period January 2011-December 2015. This evaluation is OVE's third for the country.