Global challenges like development and migration can only be tackled efficiently when Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) work together even more closely, EIB President Werner Hoyer stressed at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington on Friday. “We are strong believers at the EIB in multilateralism and co-operative structures”, the President of the European Investment Bank said in a panel discussion with heads of other leading MDBs at the World Bank headquarters. “The EIB is open to close collaboration with other MDBs.”

How can National Development Banks (NDBs) and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) mobilise more private sector funding to reach the Sustainable Development Goals? According to EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle, “We have to find more innovative ways of working together, and enhance trust among ourselves in the appraisal process.”

The EIB has launched calls for tenders to appoint an execution design team and a construction   project manager for its new building project located on the Kirchberg campus next to the buildings it currently occupies. The calls for tenders were published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18 October within the framework of the European Union public procurement procedure.

In 2006, the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $55.2 million grant to help finance the $80 million Road Connectivity Sector I project. The project was to construct or upgrade 10 roads and one bridge—the first phase of the works planned under the 10-year midterm program, with the remainder planned for subsequent projects. The project was the first sector loan modality approved for Nepal's transport sector.

In June 2017, the Independent Office of Evalution (IOE) of IFAD organised a two day conference on information and communication technology for evaluation (ICT4Eval). 

As follow up to this event, IOE is pleased to invite you to join the Information and Communication Technologies for Evaluation (ICT4Eval) Community of Practice (CoP), created to collaborate, network, share best practices and learn together about ICT for evaluation.

This report provides an independent assessment and validation of the Turkmenistan 2002–2016 country operations final review prepared as a self-evaluation by the Central and West Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank. It assesses ADB and borrower performance, the quality of the self-evaluation, and identifies issues and provide recommendations for the preparation of CPS, 2017–2021.