EIB and Greece take next step in cooperation over RRF investments

The implementation of a cooperation agreement between the European Investment Bank and the Hellenic Republic, which involves the EIB managing up to €5 billion of Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) investments in Greece, was confirmed recently in Athens during a meeting between Alternate Finance Minister Theodoros Skylakakis and EIB Vice-President for Greece Christian Kettel Thomsen.

EIB advisory services and Czech railway administration to modernise Czech railways

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union, will extend its ongoing support for the modernisation of Czech national railways and provide advisory assistance to Správa železnic, s.o (SŽ), the national railway administration of the Czech Republic. The EIB will support SŽ in the development of a methodology and tools for assessing the suitability of public-private partnerships for delivering rail infrastructure projects in the country. EIB and the Czech railways authority signed the advisory agreement in Prague on 24 March.

InvestEU Fund backs first projects

Following the signature of the InvestEU Guarantee Agreement between the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) in March, the InvestEU Investment Committee confirmed on 1 April the EU guarantee for EIB financing totalling €1.9 billion. The backed investments will support clean energy, education, improved internet connection, water and wastewater infrastructure. The first projects to benefit from the new EU guarantee fall within InvestEU’s social investments and skills window and sustainable infrastructure window.

More competitive in a digital world: First joint Spanish and Portuguese national bank conference with the EIB, highlights COVID-19 impacts and opportunities for European businesses

As part of a series of events organised to debate current trends in investment in different EU Member States, Banco de España, Banco de Portugal and the European Investment Bank, hosted their first joint conference entitled “Financing Corporates: Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis and Challenges Ahead.”

2022 IsDB Group Evaluation Symposium: “Evaluation Through the Lens of Recovery”

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Operations Evaluation Department (OED), in close cooperation with the evaluation functions of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), cordially invite you to participate in the 2022 IsDB Group Evaluation Symposium titled “Evaluation Through the Lens of Recovery scheduled from 29 to 30 March virtually and in-person on March 31st at the Tent Hall, IsDB headquarters. 

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.