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.

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 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.

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. 

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

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. 

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.

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union's bank, in the framework of its GRAD programme, is seeking to recruit for its Inspectorate General Directorate (IG), Evaluation Division (EV) – Knowledge Management, Products & Methods Unit (KPM) at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a Graduate (GRAD). This is a full-time, temporary position.