Harmonization Work The Evaluation
Cooperation Group* was established by the heads of evaluation
of the multilateral development banks in 1996. It aims to strengthen the use of
evaluation, share lessons from evaluations, harmonize and promote collaboration
between evaluation units, and build the evaluation capacity of borrowing
member countries.
- ADB joined the ECG in 1996.
- The Director General of the Independent Evaluation Department chaired
the ECG in 2005–2006 and, in October 2005, the ECG met for the first
time in ADB's headquarters.
- In March 2005, ADB became the first member of the ECG to adopt guidelines
to avoid conflict of interest . These specify conditions
under which IED management, staff, and consultants recuse themselves.
- ADB led the development of standards for evaluation of policy-based
lending and country assistance
programs.
- In October 2006, ADB volunteered to administer, operate, and maintain
the ECG website. In early 2007, IED completed an overhaul of the platform.
The ECG secretariat is housed in ADB.
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