Evaluation Resources

Results 1-10 of 17 for Books
December 2012

Review of Energy Efficiency Interventions

This evaluation focuses on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) interventions to stimulate energy efficiency investments in industry and buildings.
April 2012

Managing for Development Results: Relevance, Responsiveness, and Results Orientation

This study assesses ADB’s achievement in mainstreaming the Managing for Development Results agenda within ADB, with a view to track progress, identify lessons, and make recommendations for ensuring better development effectiveness of operations in the future.
April 2012

The Asian Development Fund Operations: A Decade of Supporting Poverty Reduction in the Asia and Pacific Region

This study reviews the development effectiveness of the operations of the Asian Development Fund (ADF) approved during ADF VIII and ADF IX (2001–2008) and reports on progress in the first 2 years of implementing ADF X.
February 2008

Auditing the Lessons Architecture

This report brings to light the contribution that knowledge audits can make to organizational learning and organizational health, notwithstanding the psychological and social barriers that organizational culture can throw up.
March 2007

Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank

Timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the establishment of ADB in 1966, this booklet on Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank offers more than an account of the early steps of operations evaluation. It describes recent accomplishments and looks to the future.
March 2007

Learning Lessons in ADB

Learning Lessons in ADB: Strategic Framework, 2007–2009 sets the stage for regular annual knowledge audits for systematic identifi cation and analysis of knowledge needs, products and services, gaps, flows, uses, and users from the perspective of learning lessons.
February 2006

When Do Rural Roads Benefit the Poor and How? An In-depth Analysis Based on Case Studies

This publication explores the ways in which rural roads impact poverty and what the determinants of these impacts are. It uses in-depth information from six case study villages through which Asian Development Bank-financed rural roads traversed.
December 2005

Special Evaluation Study of Selected ADB Interventions on Nutrition and Food Fortification

This special evaluation study (SES) reviewed and analyzed current and future nutrition and food fortification related issues.
October 2005

An Impact Evaluation of the Development of Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia and Their Dissemination in Selected Countries

This report assesses the relevance of genetic improvement research to tilapia farming, how genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) research and development have improved breeds, the development and dissemination of breeding methods and protocols; and the institutional, socioeconomic, and environmental impacts of GIFT in selected countries.
April 2005

An Evaluation of Small-Scale Freshwater Rural Aquaculture Development for Poverty Reduction

This report looks at small-scale freshwater rural aquaculture from the viewpoint of poverty reduction.