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World Bank Independent Evaluation Group - The First 30 Years
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The
story of independent evaluation in the World Bank is more than
30 years in the making. But it is a story that has never been
told, at least not fully. That is why during the course of 2002-03
the Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) held a
series of major events, including seminars and workshops, leading
up to the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of IEG by Robert
McNamara on July 1, 1973.
This volume captures the history of IEG as related by many of
those who participated in making that history. It is divided into
four sections. The first part is drawn from a series of presentations
made by former directorsgeneral, Operations Evaluation, and senior IEG managers. It relates, in roughly chronological presentations,
the development of IEG from an experimental program to a major
department with a record of accomplishment and influence within
the Bank and beyond.
The second part presents perspectives on IEG from two of its most
important internal constituencies - the Board of Executive Directors
and senior Bank management. Part three considers IEG ’s relationships
with its external constituents, including its work ondeveloping
evaluation capacity among client countries and its evaluation
partnerships with other development organizations. Finally, part
four presents a forward-looking appraisal of the challenges of
development evaluation from three of its leading thinkers.
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