Transforming Development through Impact Evaluation
Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i) is a World Bank program and global platform launched in March 2014 with support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). It leverages international assistance to generate high-quality and operationally relevant impact evaluation (IE) research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity. Its purpose is to change development practice through a greater emphasis on the dialectics of development and empirical testing of competing hypotheses while embedding learning into each element of the project cycle, from defining policy, through the decision to continue a program or not, to the structure of the next phase of learning.
i2i has a portfolio of 131 IEs, spanning 53 countries and covering all of the Bank’s regions and sectors. Portfolio implementation is on track. As of January 2016, 24 percent of the portfolio has been completed. Most of these IEs have already produced final outputs, such as working papers, publications, or project completion reports. 43 percent of the portfolio is in implementation phase, having passed technical and policy relevance review and received World Bank country director and sector manager approval. A remaining 33 percent of the portfolio is in preparation phase, with teams having passed technical and policy relevance for expressions of interest (EOI) and received preparation grants from i2i to develop full technical proposals.
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Last Updated: May 12, 2017