When does #BudgetSupport as provided by multilateral development banks like achieve durable and meaningful development progress?
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🔋 Demand Side Energy Efficiency (#DSEE) projects are one of the most cost-effective ways to combat climate change.
Given their key importance, 's report explores recurring challenges & offers 4⃣recommendations to scale them up.
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#Additionality should be a central objective for any development institution investing in the private sector.
's evaluation found that ’s best investments make unique contributions that would not otherwise be possible.
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The - Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework.
Yes, it's quite the tongue-twister, but let's not lose sight of how crucial a tool it is and how the Bank can better use it to improve #debt sustainability analyses.
🆕 #evaluation bit.ly/42xzGks
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💫Last week & hosted #NECPlus6! A huge highlight from the event was hearing updates on how countries have taken forward the Turin Agenda since the National Evaluation Capacities Conference #NECdev last year. 📺Watch here: bit.ly/3nGnXkN
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In #Ecuador, the responded to the #pandemic as the country grappled with harsh macroeconomic conditions. Amidst these complexities, the Bank responded quickly and effectively.
Learn more: bit.ly/3Zwnxuo
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How did the Group respond to the economic implications of the #COVID19 pandemic & how can it strengthen its role as a crisis responder?
Our evaluation offers some recommendations: bit.ly/3Ym9fMX
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The has faced a number of challenges in its support for #justice sector reform ⚖️.
🔎By reviewing 's evidence from past support, we've identified lessons on what worked, what didn't & why ongoing focus is vital.
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NEW report: What works to amplify the rights & voices of youth in peace & resilience building?
Lessons from the meta-synthesis of 120+ UN evaluations to boost evidence-based UN youth programming
unfpa.org/what-works-amp
#Youth2030 #Eval4Youth
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Many factors strengthen & constrain the #additionality of in middle-income countries #MICs. What are these factors & what are some ways for IFC to address them?
🆕 A new evaluation report offers a few lessons: bit.ly/3L6WjGy
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#Additionality is the unique contribution that a #DFI brings to a private investment project without displacing other investments. It's a core feature of development finance & integral to its mission.
Download our 🆕 #evaluation to learn more: bit.ly/3L6WjGy
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Think you can’t generalize or infer causality from case studies? Think again. This new paper from suggests otherwise, using a real-life example of a carbon finance evaluation to show how:
The Rigor of Case-Based Causal Analysis ieg.worldbankgroup.org//evaluations/r
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Budget support to governments:
✅Performs as well or better than project support per assessment of projects.
✅Supports country ownership, financing predictability, country systems, and results➡ Paris Declaration principles are still alive and well
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Is 's results framework fit for purpose?
In new analysis, + argue that the Fund was not created solely to ensure country compliance w/int'l health regulations, but rather to assess broader pandemic #preparedness:
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Today is the LAST DAY to submit an abstract for #Evaluating #Environment and Development being hosted by Assoc. Partner ! 10/18-10/19, 2023 in Washington D.C.! Submit your abstract by May 1st. Some fellowships available. gefieo.org/conference-2023
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Conversamos sobre la crisis de la #deuda mundial y las soluciones para ayudar a los países que enfrentan sobreendeudamiento.
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Case studies in #evaluation suffer from two myths: one cannot generalize from cases or infer causality.
IEG’s new Methods Paper busts these myths using a real-life example.
Find out how you can use case-based design for causal analysis in your evaluation bit.ly/3LztwKT
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Early in the pandemic, the helped countries strengthen #health surveillance systems—an instrumental component of the Bank’s response.
But support cannot stop there.
See lessons to boost these critical systems ahead of the next #pandemic: bit.ly/3o3x2nz
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interventions supporting #IndigenousPeoples often need to respond to 4⃣ challenges:
✔️Cultural differences
✔️Geographical constraints
✔️Affordability of services
✔️Lack of accurate data
👉 Read 's Evaluation Insight Note (#EIN): bit.ly/401V5S5
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Don't miss the gender-responsive and climate-informed national evaluation systems discussions at #NECPlus6: Taking Forward the Turin Agenda.
Register here: bit.ly/3LakPXt
📅3 May 2023
🕕12:30 to 14:30 UTC
📍 Virtual
#evaluation #Sustainability
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Budget support is used for more & more reforms, like #gender, #ClimateChange & the mobilization of private finance.
But it’s delivered to a government’s treasury with no conditions. So how is the impact evaluated? bit.ly/3oBWvF8 #BudgetSupport
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With more & more development finance delivered through budget support, there are important questions about how to evaluate this fast-disbursing, non-earmarked form of support.
Read more: bit.ly/3oBWvF8 #budgetsupport
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#BudgetSupport & DPLs as aid instruments - today informal discussion Stefan Koeberle from @WorldBank at @DEval_Institute - sneak preview into new book @Lodewijk_Smets highly relevant for #evaluation @OECD_EVALNET @WorldBank_IEG
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Youth in Evaluation week starts tomorrow!
Check out the full programme & join the inauguration on April 24 2023 at 1.00 pm GMT | 9.00 am ET !
🔗eval4action.org/youthinevalweek
#Eval4Action
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More than half of sub-Saharan #Africa struggles with #energy access.
Can energy efficiency offer #sustainable & affordable energy to low-income countries?
Read IEG’s #eval of ’s work on #EnergyEfficiency in Malawi: bit.ly/3UY8qZU
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The #COVID19 pandemic & #energy #crisis have underscored the importance & urgency of investing in #EnergyEfficiency.
As we celebrate #EarthDay, learn how #EnergyEfficiency can help confront #ClimateChange & what it will take to scale it up: bit.ly/3ov2E5Q
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#EnergyEffciency is one of the most cost-effective ways to confront #ClimateChange & scaling it up is urgent.
IEG draws from its #eval of ’s support to demand-side energy efficiency & offers lessons on what this scale-up requires: bit.ly/3ov2E5Q #EarthDay
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The world produces 400M tons of #plastic every year. It adds to #GHG #emissions & pollutes our land and oceans.
How can we tackle this?
On #EarthDay, listen in on what we can learn from global efforts to address solid waste: bit.ly/3QUBr4V #ClimateChange
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Achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 requires closing a $500B gap in #EnergyEfficiency investments by 2030. 🌍💡
What will it take to achieve this massive scale-up?
For #EarthDay, IEG offers lessons in a new blog: bit.ly/3ov2E5Q
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Step up the dialogue on youth in #evaluation, together with &
25 Apr - EvalYouth experiences
26 Apr - Learning & job opportunities in eval
28 Apr - (Concluding event) Youth in Evaluation week: What have we learned?
eval4action.org/youthinevalwee
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🎉 Join our panellists as we discuss how the Emerging Evaluator Programme is bridging the #eval gap
📡Lessons learnt, potential for scale-up
🙌 Tips & tricks for future emerging evaluator cohorts
📆26 April, 2pm
➡️bit.ly/3M0YXyv
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Youth in Evaluation week: 24-28 April
Featuring 50+ events, co-led with youth, to boost
🔹youth voices & engagement in eval
🔹careers of youth in eval
🔹intergenerational partnerships & global movement on youth in #evaluation
Register 🔗eval4action.org/youthinevalweek
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The 's support to #Ecuador during the #pandemic is a case study in crisis response.
Here’s why: bit.ly/3Zwnxuo
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🤔Curious about how to effectively use evaluations to influence decision-making? Join us for GEI's #BExchange webinar series, where we'll dive into 's recommendations and their practical implications. More details here: bit.ly/3zODUrw #evaluation
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From a #dev success story until 2016 to a fragile country in 2018, #Mozambique’s economy faced many challenges.
How did ’s #dev support to Mozambique adapt to these challenges & what are the lessons for the future?
Find out: bit.ly/3nh7iUB
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#Additionality is the unique contribution that a #DFI brings to a private investment project without crowding out other investments.
🆕 A new blog explores how can strengthen its #additionality in middle-income countries #MICs & offers lessons: bit.ly/41loKWS
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What is #additionality & why is it important for private sector #dev #fin institutions #DFIs to identify & articulate it well?
🆕 Our new eval report assesses ’s approach to additionality in middle income countries #MICs & offers lessons: bit.ly/3L6WjGy
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Excellent presentation by our colleague Andrew Stone on our K-12 #evaluation along with representatives from , and during the Civil Society Policy Forum.
👉You can read our report here: bit.ly/3Nl4jBN
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Join the conversation today at 9:00pm EAT. Livestream bit.ly/3MCcj4s
Our @Kemba_A will be a panelist as we reflect on lessons from the financing of health & education for the @WorldBank Group’s Evolution Roadmap.
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Health surveillance systems were instrumental in the ’s response to COVID-19.
Drawing from the Bank’s experience, here’s the good, the not yet known, and the absent in health surveillance systems: bit.ly/3o3x2nz
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