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World Bank Group impact evaluations : relevance and effectiveness.

Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention. Both innovations in statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can meas...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: World Bank, World Bank. Independent Evaluation Group, International Finance Corporation
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2013.
Colección:Independent evaluation studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; OVERVIEW; MANAGEMENT RESPONSE; CHAIRPERSON'S SUMMARY: COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; What Is Impact Evaluation?; BOXES; Box 1.1. Use of the Term "Impact" within the Impact Evaluation Community; Evaluation Objective, Scope, and Framework; FIGURES; Figure 1.1. Process Chain from Impact Evaluation Initiation to Uptake; Building Blocks of the Evaluation; TABLES; Table 1.1. Desk Review of World Bank Group Impact Evaluations; Notes; References; 2. IMPACT EVALUATIONS AT THE WORLD BANK GROUP.
  • Figure 2.1. Impact Evaluations in the M & E SystemInstitutional Efforts to Facilitate Production of Impact Evaluations; Box 2.1. Thematic Impact Evaluation Programs and the Programmatic Model; Box 2.2. Africa Impact Evaluation Initiative; Box 2.3. IFC's Advisory Services and Related Impact Evaluation: Supervisory Skills Training in the Cambodian Garment Industry; Production of World Bank Group Impact Evaluations; Figure 2.2. Impact Evaluations at the World Bank by Initiation Year; Thematic and Regional Distribution of World Bank Group Impact Evaluations.
  • Figure 2.3. Current Lending Portfolio with Impact Evaluations at the World Bank by Sector Board and Fiscal YearFigure 2.4. Impact Evaluations at the World Bank by Type of Thematic Program and Initiation Year; Figure 2.5. IFC Impact Evaluations of Advisory Services by Business Line; Figure 2.6. Impact Evaluations at the World Bank across Regions; World Bank Group Impact Evaluation Methods; Figure 2.7. Impact Evaluations at the World Bank Using Experimental versus Quasi-Experimental Design by Initiation Year; Stakeholder Involvement in World Bank Group Impact Evaluations.
  • Figure 2.8. Prevalence of Methodologies Used in World Bank Group Impact EvaluationsFigure 2.9. Actors Initiating World Bank Impact Evaluations by Initiation Year; Costs and Funding Mechanisms for World Bank Group Impact Evaluations; Table 2.1. Affiliation of Authors of World Bank Group Impact Evaluations; Box 2.4. Spanish Trust Fund for Impact Evaluations as a Dedicated Trust Fund for Impact Evaluations; Table 2.2. Cost of World Bank Impact Evaluation as Proportion of Cost of the Intervention Being Evaluated; Figure 2.10. Funding Sources for World Bank Impact Evaluations by Initiation Year.
  • NotesReferences; 3. RELEVANCE OF WORLD BANK GROUP IMPACT EVALUATIONS; Relevance of Impact Evaluations to Operational Needs; Relevance of Impact Evaluations to Institutional Strategies; Figure 3.1. Distribution of Impact Evaluations within Sector and Business Line Strategies; Figure 3.2. Sector Distribution of All World Bank Lending Operations versus Those Operations with Impact Evaluations; Relevance of Impact Evaluations for Knowledge Generation; Factors Affecting Scope and Relevance of World Bank Group Impact Evaluations; Box 3.1. Relevance to Operational Needs versus Knowledge Generation.