The year has been one of exceptional coordination between IDEV and African Development Bank Management to achieve the timely delivery of evaluative evidence.
This evaluation follows on from IDEV’s evaluation of the AfDB’s Strategy for Addressing Fragility and Building Resilience in Africa (2014-2019), concluded in 2020.
The Independent Evaluation Group report on the Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2021 documents the substantial improvement in project ratings while identifying areas in need of attention, such as results measurement.
IDEV’s three-year work program provide the framework within which IDEV activities are planned, resourced, and implemented. The work program links policy to programming. This is critical for managerial accountability and effective use of resources.
The 2020 Annual Evaluation Report (AER) of the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) presents a synthesis of the evaluations of the IsDB interventions as well as Enabling, Learning and Outreach activities undertaken by the OED during 2020.
Despite the unprecedented challenges, the European Investment Bank Group’s evaluation function (IG/EV) delivered on its ambitious work programme in 2020.
This Annual Evaluation Review (AER) updates ADB’s performance and results from a high-level perspective, based on findings and evidence from Independent Evaluation Department (IED) evaluations and validations, and assesses ADB’s institutional response and support for the Sustainable Development...
This evaluation focused on Bank-Fund collaboration in the context of recent IMF pilot initiatives to enhance coverage of inequality, gender, energy/climate, and macro-structural reform in Article IV surveillance.
This report presents IDEV’s first assessment of the adoption of evaluation recommendations, as captured in the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Management Action Record System (MARS), established in 2013.
The purpose of the evaluation was to account for the Bank’s operations in Egypt and to foster learning to help improve the Bank’s future performance. The evaluation highlights key lessons and recommendations for consideration in future program design.
Innovations in rural development approaches and solutions are crucial to improve the effectiveness of agrifood systems and better meet the rising demand for food worldwide.
In its most recent evaluation, IEG assesses how the World Bank Group convenes international partners to foster collective action on global issues. It finds that there is high demand for the Bank Group as a convener and examples of strong global contributions.
The evaluation aimed to generate knowledge and provide lessons to maximize the impact of ongoing and future irrigation development interventions. It applied a counterfactual approach, comparing the project beneficiaries with a control group, to measure and attribute the effects of the interventions.
Independent Development Evaluation has conducted an evaluation of the African Development Bank’s Country Strategy and Program in Mali for the period 2005-2019.
The EBRD’s ability to combine non-sovereign investment and policy engagement was an important contributor to shareholders’ decision to offer membership to countries of the South-east Mediterranean and North Africa region (known as the SEMED region in EBRD) following the major political upheavals of...
The 2019 Annual Evaluation Report (AER) of the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) presents a synthesis of the post-evaluations of IsDB interventions and activities undertaken by OED during 2019.