In the past two decades, as public sector finance has proven insufficient to meet global development needs, private finance mobilization (PFM) has emerged as a key approach for development financing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Recognizing that relying only on profits, additional…
The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD has undertaken an evaluation of the Southern Laos Food and Nutrition Security and Market Linkages Programme (FNML) in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The FNML project was implemented between 2013 and 2020, reaching 173 villages in 5…
The project cluster evaluation on rural finance in East and Southern Africa (ESA) covers three projects: the Programme for Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies in Kenya; the Rural Finance Expansion Programme in Zambia; and the Rural Financial Intermediation Programme II in…
The 2023 Annual Report on the Independent Evaluation of IFAD (ARIE) is the twenty-first version of the report to be published. It analyses performance ratings from 288 project-level evaluations and 45 country strategy and programme evaluations, as well as findings from corporate-level,…
This document defines the approach the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) will adopt in its evaluation of the work by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on climate change adaptation. This includes the objectives, scope, and methodology of the evaluation. At the request of the IDB…
These Guidelines seek to provide greater clarity on how OVE will conduct Independent Country Program Reviews (ICPRs), a periodic product introduced through the approval of OVE's Country Product Protocol by the Boards. The purpose of this document is to provide transparency to the Boards,…