The year 2019 marked the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) 20-year anniversary of promoting a culture of measuring development results for the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group). This 2019 Annual Report is organized in two sections. The first section reports on the…
As part of its work program, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) submits this country program evaluation (CPE) for the IDB Groups country strategy with Panama for the period 2015-2019. The CPE evaluates the IDB Groups relationship with the…
The evaluation exercise examined the Bank’s gender mainstreaming approaches, mechanisms and results in light of institutional, regional and global priorities for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa. As part of the evaluation, a synthesis of evaluative evidence from comparator…
This edition of Made in Africa Evaluations explores indigenous approaches and how they could fast-track the achievement of the continental development agendas – the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030) and the African Union Agenda 2063. We asked contributors to respond to…
To strengthen its position as a partner of choice in Africa and reposition itself as the continent’s premier development finance institution, the African Development Bank (AfDB) adopted a Ten-Year Strategy (TYS 2013-2022), in which it reaffirmed its strong commitment to partnerships. It also…
This report summarizes the results of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE)'s annual validation of the project performance self-assessments of IDB and IDB Invest. IDB self-evaluates project performance and results for sovereign-guaranteed (SG) operations at project closure through…