Statement of the Heads of Multilateral Development Banks Group: Strengthening Our Collaboration for Greater Impact

The world faces a global “polycrisis” affecting human and economic development at an unprecedented scale. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been painfully slow. For many countries, that progress has stalled or reversed, while the climate emergency is felt in intensifying force around the globe, hitting the most vulnerable the hardest. A much scaled up global effort is thus required to eradicate poverty, accelerate inclusive socioeconomic development, and tackle transboundary challenges.

ECG Webinar Series: Evaluating Organizational Decentralization: Insights from IFAD and AfDB

Organizational decentralization is more than just a structural transformation; it's a strategic journey many development organizations embark on to enhance their proximity to clients and boost development effectiveness. This strategy is rooted in the belief that closer client engagement heightens relevance and overall development outcomes. But does this approach truly deliver as anticipated? And how do evaluations inform and optimize the effectiveness of such organizational shifts? 

ECG Webinar series: Experimenting with GPT and Generative AI for evaluation practice

Over the past few months, there has been a lot of hype around Generative AI, ChatGPT, and other Large Language Models. Oscillating between awe and catastrophism, many opinions have been voiced. The Independent Evaluation Group’s Methods Team decided to take a dispassionate approach by doing what it does best, setting up clear experiments, and assessing the models as objectively as possible. In this webinar ,IEG shared with participants how to set up the experiments, what they found and what they recommend. 

Call for interest for Junior Consultant: Evaluation Research Analyst

Expected / Major functional activities
 

Support evaluations led by an IOE staff member and carried out by an inter-disciplinary team.  The evaluation research analyst will contribute to the conduct of IOE evaluations, including project level evaluations and higher-level evaluations (e.g., country strategy and programme evaluation, evaluation synthesis reports, corporate level evaluations).

Specific tasks may include the following:

Call for interest for Senior Evaluation Consultants

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.

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