The African Development Bank (AfDB) Regional Member Countries are categorized as low, middle, and high-income based on their per capita Gross National Income. Despite their relatively high per capita income level, most middle-income countries (MICs) in Africa remain vulnerable to external…
The evaluation seeks to provide the Boards and Managements with information on how effective the IDBG’s safeguards systems have been in preventing, managing, and mitigating the adverse E&S impacts of IDBG-financed operations and in building client capacity to manage E&S impacts and…
In 2018 the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) delivered 11 evaluations. In so doing, OVE specialists reviewed roughly 4300 Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDBG) lending and non-lending operations and knowledge products, conducted fieldwork in 15 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC…
As part of its 2017-2018 annual work program, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) has evaluated the Country Program with Honduras 2015-2018. This is OVE's fifth independent country program evaluation (CPE) of the IDB's program with Honduras and the first to cover the work of…
This study was requested by the Board Effectiveness and Efficiency Group, following the implementation by the Bank of a pilot, which increased the EBRD’s delegated authority threshold from €10 million to €25 million. On the completion of this pilot, the increased threshold became the Bank’s…
The review of project self-evaluations and performance ratings by the independent evaluation office is an integral aspect of the project evaluation system across Multilateral Development Banks. At the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDBG) the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) has…