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Sector-wide Evaluation: ADB Energy Policy and Program, 2009–2019

Economies benefit from abundant access to energy that is efficient, secure, equitable, and environmentally and financially sustainable. Much progress has been made in improving access to electricity in the Asia and Pacific region. Even so, energy

Evaluation Document

Effectiveness of the 2009 Safeguard Policy Statement

The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced tremendous economic growth and progress towards poverty reduction; however, this remains associated with serious and increasingly complex social and environmental challenges including global challenges. Prote

Evaluation Document

Knowledge Solutions for Development: An Evaluation of ADB’s Readiness for Strategy 2030

In 1966, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was created to foster economic growth and cooperation in Asia and the Pacific. The past five decades have seen remarkable progress in this endeavor, with economic growth leading to a precipitous drop in p

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Learning from the past for a bright post-pandemic future

Carefully evaluating development projects, and learning from success and challenges of past efforts, is more important than ever as governments fight COVID-19.

Evaluation Resources for COVID-19 Response
Learning from past lessons to address the present crisis

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    COVID-19 Crisis: EIB Group's Support to EU Response

    Jan Willem van der Kaaij and Sabine Bernabè of the Operations Evaluation Unit of the European Investment Bank (EIB) talks about how the EU and EIB are responding to the coronavirus crisis.

  • COVID-19: Early Lessons for Evaluation
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    COVID-19: Early Lessons for Evaluation

    Charles Collyns of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight at the IMF and Jose Deras of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration discuss early COVID-19 pandemic evaluation lessons for countries and development institutions.

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    Engaging with Operations while Maintaining Independence

    Ivory Yong-Prötzel of the Inter-American Development Bank and Todor Dimitrov of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank talks about how independent evaluation units should engage with operations while maintaining their independence.

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    Remote Approaches to Evaluations in Times of COVID-19

    Juha Uitto of GEF’s Independent Evaluation Office and Fabrizio Felloni of IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation discuss how they are fulfilling their evaluation work to adapt to the COVID-19 crisis.

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Performance of ADB Projects, 2000-2018

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23 Oct 2020 | Evaluation Document

Regional: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study

This technical assistance (TA) project was aimed to promote inter-subregional foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, especially by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This report validates the completion report's assessment of the TA.

22 Oct 2020 | Evaluation Document

Regional: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources

The technical assistance (TA) project aimed to strengthen the capacity of eight target developing member countries (DMCs) to mobilize domestic revenue by conducting tax policy and administration research and providing capacity development programs (des

20 Oct 2020 | Evaluation Document

Bangladesh: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project

The Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project was developed to sustain economic growth and poverty reduction and to provide livelihood security in areas threatened by riverbank erosion.

19 Oct 2020 | Evaluation Document

2021 Annual Evaluation Review: Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals

ONGOING EVALUATION.

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