New ECG Paper: Knowledge Management in International Financial Institutions

Prepared by the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank on behalf of ECG, ECG paper #7 synthesizes the findings of 14 recent knowledge management evaluation studies and related reports from the evaluation units of six ECG member institutions namely AfDB, AsDB, IFAD, IMF and the World Bank. The objective of the paper is to identify commonalities in these reports that would provide lessons of more general use to those in IFIs trying to improve knowledge management.

7 Preliminary Lessons from the 2nd Climate-Eval Conference

The 2nd Climate-Eval Conference on evaluating climate change and development was held last week in Washington DC. The conference aimed to create space for evaluation professionals and a selected group of policy makers and practitioners from north and south to collectively explore how different methods and approaches to evaluate climate change, sustainable development and natural resources management have worked, and how they can be improved to address new and emerging issu