Now available: Learning from Ebola and Other Health Crises to Inform Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response and Recovery: Moving from Data Collection to Creating Practical Lessons

Summary of a joint knowledge sharing webinar by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and United States Agency for International Development’s Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning team. The webinar highlighted cross-institutional lessons and evaluative knowledge from World Bank and United States Agency for International Development responses to health and nutrition-related interventions during Ebola and other crises.

New from Asian Development Bank's Independent Evaluation Department - Evaluation Guru 4: Program Evaluation

Evaluation Guru is an evaluation capacity development video series launched by Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Independent Evaluation Department (IED). As part of IED’s Evaluation Academy initiative, the series takes the multimedia approach to meet the growing demand for evaluation capacity development in ADB’s client countries. The series illustrates how to design, implement, and manage evaluations which in turn will guide programs and projects towards development effectiveness, foster accountability, and learning.  

Evaluation Headlines: Moving towards a Sustainable, Inclusive, and Resilient Recovery

Evaluation Headlines is an online interview series launched by the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank IED at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In these series, which are a response to the huge need for new knowledge for evaluators and the development community on how best independent evaluations can support their organizations respond effectively to the COVID-19 crisis, IED’s Saleha Waseem speaks to heads of offices of independent evaluations.

Vacancy Announcement: Knowledge and Learning Officer, World Bank Independent Evaluation Group

Exciting opportunity to join World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) as a Knowledge and Learning Officer.

The IEG Knowledge and Communications Department (KC) Data, Systems, and Learning (DSL) team is seeking a dynamic and innovative knowledge and learning professional, who will serve as Task Team Lead (TTL) for the IEG Academy, IEG’s staff learning program for all IEG, which also includes managing design and delivery of the IEG Learning Days, and the IEG Mentoring and Onboarding programs. 

Book Launch: Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions: A Case Study of the GEF

"Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions: A Case Study of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)" explores why the GEF invests in evaluation for accountability and learning to inform its decision making on programming priorities, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground. No other multilateral development or environment agency places evaluation fully at the center of their decision making. 

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Book Launch: Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions: A Case Study of the GEF

Join the discussion on 27 October to see why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability and learning, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground.

Details available in the ECG events calendar

Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF 20th Anniversary Conference

The IEO organised virtual conference on November 16-17 to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the IEO in 2011, a successor to a 10th anniversary conference in 2011.

The conference provided an occasion to discuss lessons from the experience with IEO evaluation over the past 10 years and consider the challenges to independent evaluation at the IMF going forward.

Full details available on the IEO website

Upcoming online event: 15 years of Inspectorate General: How important is public accountability for the EU Bank?

On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, the European Investment Bank’s Inspectorate General is hosting a conference on 
“Public Accountability”
to be held on 27 October 2021, 9:15 - 12.30.


Addressing the major societal challenges ahead of us – including climate change, COVID-19 crisis recovery, gender equality, reducing poverty and inequalities – requires to make public accountability an integral part of our strategy. 

Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF 20th Anniversary conference

The IEO invites you to a virtual conference on November 16-17 to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the IEO in 2011, a successor to a 10th anniversary conference in 2011. The conference will provide an occasion to discusss lessons from the experience with IEO evaluation over the past 10 years and consider the challenges to independent evaluation at the IMF going forward. The conference will run from 10:30 am to 1:15pm (DC time) each day.