EIB is leading work to look at whether and how to elaborate recommendations, what happens with recommendations, and identify lessons and define output. Work will begin with a light stocktaking to determine practices among members.
At the ECG January 2016 meeting (chaired by IEG), members agreed to develop a guidance note intended to draw from member experiences with self-evaluations in order to identify practices that are believed to deal most effectively with challenges and contribute to extracting maximum value from self-evaluations.
At the ECG June 2016 meeting (chaired by EBRD) members shared their experiences and looked at ways to move the work forward. Issues identified included the:
In a new blog posting, IEG Evaluation Methods Advisor, Jos Vaessen asks how complicated does the (intervention) model have to be?
Even though simple models are incomplete and inadequate for some questions, more elaborate models are not necessarily generating more accurate predictions or explanations of reality.
