Country Report No. 2022/179

Country Report No. 2022/180

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What you’ll do:

Purpose

Within the Knowledge Management, Products, and Methods (KPM) unit of the Evaluation division of the EIB Group (IG/EV), you will contribute to the design, implementation and dissemination of evaluations and support transversal activities undertaken by the division. The Evaluation division conducts independent evaluations of the EIB Group’s activities. It helps the EIB Group be accountable to its stakeholders and draw lessons on how to continuously improve its work, thereby contributing to a culture of learning and evidence-based decision-making.

Operating Network

This validation covers Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) support for Sri Lanka during 2016–2020. It includes ongoing and completed ADB loans, grants, and technical assistance (TA) from 2016 to 2020. The validation aims to identify lessons and recommendations for ADB’s future operations, in particular the forthcoming Sri Lanka Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), 2023–2027. 

The project was to improve and increase access to quality, polytechnical vocational education in line with employers’ needs and the aspirations of graduates. It aimed to support workforce development in five of the eight priority industry subsectors identified in the MP3EI (manufacturing, agrobusiness, infrastructure, energy, mining, and tourism). The project supported key policy reforms to strengthen polytechnic education through an integrated approach addressing equitable access, graduate employment outcomes, subsector management, and suitability and quality of study programs.

The program was to support relief work in West Nusa Tenggara and Central Sulawesi provinces, assess post-disaster needs, and prepare an action plan and projects for reconstruction. Its impact was socioeconomic impact of disasters reduced aligned with National Medium-Term Development Plan (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional), 2015–2019. Its outcome was adverse social impact of the recent disasters on the poor mitigated.
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the program. IED overall assessment: Successful.

The Finance Minister of the Czech Republic Zbyněk Stanjura made his first visit today to the Luxembourg headquarters of the European Investment Bank Group since taking office in December 2021. Minister Stanjura, who is also a governor of the EIB, met EIB President Werner Hoyer to discuss EIB operations in the country, cooperation on the priorities of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union, mitigation of the social and economic effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on EU Member States, and the role of EIB Global in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.