This knowledge paper examines the digitalisation components of the Kafr El-Sheikh Wastewater Project, in light of the EBRD’s Approach to Accelerating the Digital Transition (the ‘Digital Approach’). The objective is to highlight lessons from the Bank’s experiences with digitalisation, which in…
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) regularly evaluates different aspects of the GEF results-based management (RBM). This report brings together evidence from two of these evaluations: (1) the Evaluation of GEF Agency Self-Evaluation Systems and (2…
This pilot country-level evaluation examines EBRD operations in Uzbekistan, covering the period 2017-22. The scope of this evaluation covers all EBRD activities – financing, policy dialogue, and Technical Cooperation (TC) assignments – in Uzbekistan during that period. The report highlights…
The Venture Capital Investment Programme (VCIP, https://www.ebrdvcip.com/) is one of the several instruments that the Bank put in place to promote innovation in its countries of operation. This evaluation covers all investments that the Bank made under VCIP I.
Evaluability is essential in helping EBRD contribute effectively to fight climate change. Effective monitoring of results and progress will help the EBRD tell its green finance story clearly and credibly. The objective of this report is to provide an initial evaluability assessment of the EBRD…
The review covers 16 annual MAR reports presented to the GEF Council between 2006 and 2021, including 186 evaluation recommendations/GEF Council decisions of 59 IEO evaluations and their management responses, and 435 records of management’s self-assessments of the adoption of recommendations,…