This site http://ieg.worldbankgroup.org has been developed with a number of enhancements, with the goal of improving your experience online with the World Bank Group. The site has over 20 new features and enhancements, designed to simplify and improve access to resources, promote learning, and enhance engagement. Among the new features are knowledge and learning highlights,… Continue reading New Independent Evaluation Group IEG Website
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International Financial Institutions Agree to Share Data
International Financial Institutions Agree to Share Data to Improve Development Outcomes and Lay the Groundwork for the Post-2015 Development Agenda WASHINGTON, April 22, 2013/ — Recognizing the power of information to shape better policies, guide development programs and increase accountability, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with leaders of six multilateral financial institutions, announced today that… Continue reading International Financial Institutions Agree to Share Data
Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century
All regions of the world would suffer – some more than others – but the report finds that the poor will suffer the most. WASHINGTON, November 18, 2012 – The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act… Continue reading Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century
Development Impact Evaluation Initiative (DIME)
The Development Impact Evaluation Initiative is a World Bank-wide program to generate knowledge on the effectiveness of development policies. Working across 18 thematic areas, DIME collaborates with 300 agencies in 72 countries to improve the effectiveness of policies and programs and strengthen country capacity for real-time evidence-based policy-making. via Development Impact Evaluation Initiative.
Impact Evaluation Toolkit | The World Bank
Measuring the Impact of Results-Based Financing on Maternal and Child Health This World Bank toolkit offers a step-by-step guide on how to evaluate the impact of interventions, especially those related to maternal and child health and those involving results-based financing (RBF). According to its developer, the World Bank Human Development Network, the guide can also… Continue reading Impact Evaluation Toolkit | The World Bank
Impact Evaluation Toolkit | The World Bank
Measuring the Impact of Results-Based Financing on Maternal and Child Health This World Bank toolkit offers a step-by-step guide on how to evaluate the impact of interventions, especially those related to maternal and child health and those involving results-based financing (RBF). According to its developer, the World Bank Human Development Network, the guide can also… Continue reading Impact Evaluation Toolkit | The World Bank
World Bank President Jim Kim Answers Your Questions
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim asked you to send your questions, comments and views on the best ways to eradicate poverty. We received over 1,000 posts from 62 countries via Facebook, Twitter, and World Bank Live. Watch Dr. Kim answering some of your questions – on the impact of the global financial crisis… Continue reading World Bank President Jim Kim Answers Your Questions
Global Trade Logistics Advisory program of the World Bank
The Global Trade Logistics Advisory program of the World Bank Groups’ Investment Climate Department (IC) has been dedicated to assisting countries in creating simple, efficient and accountable trade logistics systems and services that have a dramatic impact on economic development. The team has produced a video that highlights client success stories from Colombia, Liberia and… Continue reading Global Trade Logistics Advisory program of the World Bank
The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction | World Bank IEG
The Independent Evaluation Group’s evaluation, Assessing IFC’s Poverty Focus and Results, aimed to contribute to the enhancement of IFC’s poverty focus and its effectiveness for greater poverty impact. Findings from field studies included in the report illustrate that success, or lack thereof, is a result of the manner in which each project addressed the fulfillment… Continue reading The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction | World Bank IEG
The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction | World Bank IEG
The Independent Evaluation Group’s evaluation, Assessing IFC’s Poverty Focus and Results, aimed to contribute to the enhancement of IFC’s poverty focus and its effectiveness for greater poverty impact. Findings from field studies included in the report illustrate that success, or lack thereof, is a result of the manner in which each project addressed the fulfillment… Continue reading The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction | World Bank IEG
World Bank | Handbook on Impact Evaluation | Quantitative Methods and Practices
Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices, by Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Hussain A. Samad, The World Bank, Washington DC, 2010, online at http://tinyurl.com/cm4q99v Identifying the precise effects of a policy is a complex and challenging task. This issue is particularly salient in an uncertain economic climate, where governments are under great… Continue reading World Bank | Handbook on Impact Evaluation | Quantitative Methods and Practices
World Bank | Handbook on Impact Evaluation | Quantitative Methods and Practices
Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices, by Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Hussain A. Samad, The World Bank, Washington DC, 2010, online at http://tinyurl.com/cm4q99v Identifying the precise effects of a policy is a complex and challenging task. This issue is particularly salient in an uncertain economic climate, where governments are under great… Continue reading World Bank | Handbook on Impact Evaluation | Quantitative Methods and Practices
Provide your feedback to an upcoming evaluation of the Climate Investment Funds
The Evaluation Oversight Committee (EOC) of the Independent Evaluation of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) requests your feedback on the draft approach to the evaluation. The EOC (of which IEG is a member) would particularly like input on the proposed evaluation questions, and the overall scope and purpose of the evaluation. Please visit http://www.cifevaluation.org to… Continue reading Provide your feedback to an upcoming evaluation of the Climate Investment Funds
Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), World Bank
The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund is a new trust fund established within the World Bank to carry out and support research evaluating the impact of programs to alleviate poverty. The knowledge generated will provide evidence for designing more effective policies and programs. The SIEF will finance impact evaluations in the areas of: 1) Early Childhood… Continue reading Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), World Bank
IEG's World Bank Project Ratings Database disclosed
IEG independently validates all completion reports that World Bank staff prepares for projects. For a subset of completed projects, IEG performs a more in-depth project evaluation that includes extensive primary research and field work. The corresponding Reviews and Project Performance Assessment Reports codify IEG’s assessments using Likert-scale project performance indicators. This Project Performance Ratings database… Continue reading IEG's World Bank Project Ratings Database disclosed
IEG’s World Bank Project Ratings Database disclosed
IEG independently validates all completion reports that World Bank staff prepares for projects. For a subset of completed projects, IEG performs a more in-depth project evaluation that includes extensive primary research and field work. The corresponding Reviews and Project Performance Assessment Reports codify IEG’s assessments using Likert-scale project performance indicators. This Project Performance Ratings database… Continue reading IEG’s World Bank Project Ratings Database disclosed
World Bank Approves Program-for-Results
New Financing Instrument Ties Lending Directly To Verified Development Results The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved Program-for-Results (PforR), an innovative new financing instrument for the World Bank’s client countries that links the disbursement of funds directly to the delivery of defined results. Money will flow once the results have been delivered and verified.… Continue reading World Bank Approves Program-for-Results
World Bank Approves Program-for-Results
New Financing Instrument Ties Lending Directly To Verified Development Results The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved Program-for-Results (PforR), an innovative new financing instrument for the World Bank’s client countries that links the disbursement of funds directly to the delivery of defined results. Money will flow once the results have been delivered and verified.… Continue reading World Bank Approves Program-for-Results
Writing Terms of Reference for Evaluation: A How-To Guide
Writing Terms of Reference for Evaluation: A How-To Guide. The terms of reference (ToR) document defines all aspects of how a consultant or a team will conduct an evaluation. It defines the objectives and the scope of the evaluation, outlines the responsibilities of the consultant or team, and provides a clear description of the resources… Continue reading Writing Terms of Reference for Evaluation: A How-To Guide
Impact Evaluation: The Experiences of Official Agencies | IDS
Aid effectiveness has long been disputed, after decades of inconclusive macroeconomic analysis. Now there is a growing body of evidence from detailed, field level, microeconomic impact evaluations. The articles in this IDS Bulletin show how the design of these studies increasingly address the various sources of bias for which previous projects were criticised. These later… Continue reading Impact Evaluation: The Experiences of Official Agencies | IDS
Impact Evaluation: The Experiences of Official Agencies | IDS
Aid effectiveness has long been disputed, after decades of inconclusive macroeconomic analysis. Now there is a growing body of evidence from detailed, field level, microeconomic impact evaluations. The articles in this IDS Bulletin show how the design of these studies increasingly address the various sources of bias for which previous projects were criticised. These later… Continue reading Impact Evaluation: The Experiences of Official Agencies | IDS
Evaluation Capacity Development – Priority for Government M&E Systems
M&E can provide unique information about the performance of government policies, programs and projects. It can identify what works, what does not, and the reasons why. M&E also provides information about the performance of a government, of individual ministries and agencies, of managers and their staff. And it provides information on the performance of donors… Continue reading Evaluation Capacity Development – Priority for Government M&E Systems
Global economic prospects 2010: crisis, finance, and growth
Fallout from the financial crisis will change the landscape for finance and growth over the next 10 years, a new World Bank report concludes. Developing countries facing higher borrowing costs, lower credit levels, and reduced international capital flows. 2010’s Global Economic Prospects report examines the consequences of the financial crisis on both the short- and… Continue reading Global economic prospects 2010: crisis, finance, and growth
World Bank investigators and OLAF jointly target aid fraud
The joint fight against fraud affecting development aid is at the centre of a co-operation agreement signed today in Brussels between the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the World Bank’s Integrity Vice-Presidency. The World Bank is the trustee of significant funds from the EU. The agreement will allow investigators from both institutions’ anti-fraud and anti-corruption… Continue reading World Bank investigators and OLAF jointly target aid fraud
World Bank: Global Economic Prospects 2008
World Bank: Global Economic Prospects 2008 Technology Diffusion in the Developing World Rapid technological progress in developing countries has helped to raise incomes and reduce the share of people living in absolute poverty from 29 percent in 1990 to 18 percent in 2004, says the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects 2008. ”Technological progress increased 40… Continue reading World Bank: Global Economic Prospects 2008
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