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,…
This document presents the evaluation conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Country Program of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDBG) with Costa Rica from 2015 to 2022, spanning two strategic planning periods. This marks the sixth independent evaluation…
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…
This corporate evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Department assessed ADB’s investment and credit risk management of nonsovereign operations during 2009–2021. It found that ADB substantially progressed during the evaluation period. Several changes to the risk management organizational…
This evaluation assesses how well ADB has supported India in addressing its urban development challenges in the water and other urban infrastructure and services and urban transport sectors in 2012–2022, and provides recommendations for improvement.
The formalization of the concept of the Bank’s transition impact has been adjusted steadily to the changing context since it was first formalized in 1997. As the Bank is in the process of reviewing its approach to the expected transition impact methodology, this realist evaluation synthesis…