The Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is seeking several Research Fellows (RF) to work at IDB Headquarters in Washington, D.C. OVE is an independent evaluation office that conducts project, program and corporate evaluations of IDB’s and IDB Invest’s activities and reports directly to these institutions’ Boards.
 

The overall objective of the assignment is to provide support to the evaluation of the African Development Bank’s Integrated Safeguards System (ISS). The Consultant is expected to support the evaluation team, through the inception, data collection and reporting phases. As deliverables, the consultant should provide stand-alone reports on b and c points above and inputs to deliverables produced by other evaluation team members.

The resilience of Europe’s economic and financial system to future shocks and crises as well as finding the key to sustainable growth were at the centre of a discussion that brought together EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, Yves Mersch of the European Central Bank, the European Stability Mechanism’s Chief Executive Officer Klaus Regling and EIB President Hoyer.

Speaking at the Global Infrastructure Forum alongside representatives of other financial institutions, Marjut Santoni offered concrete measures on how to ‘de-risk’ investments. She explained this is to get the private sector on board for key projects to promote sustainable growth, which governments and public institutions cannot fund alone.

The Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), 2012–2016 for Uzbekistan was aligned with the priorities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of transforming the country into a modern, market-oriented economy. Prioritizing investments in transport, energy, finance, and water and other urban infrastructure and services, and in agriculture and natural resources largely supported the country program’s relevance to the overall goal of diversifying the Uzbek economy.

This joint project performance evaluation report of the Northern Region Sustainable Livelihoods through Livestock Development Project is the first joint evaluation exercise between the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Since 2000, the Government of Uzbekistan has been working with international partners to prepare the public finance management reform. After 7 years of pilot testing, the government adopted a long-term strategic approach to advance public finance reforms. Initially, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was not directly involved in public finance but largely coordinated activities, through its involvement in financing public sector investment projects.