Evaluation Partnerships and IEG 's strategic objectives

One of IEG 's five strategic objectives is to invest in knowledge and partnerships, working with partners to broaden its methods, reduce evaluation overload for countries, and increase opportunities for dissemination of lessons learned. Partnerships allow IEG to expand its frontiers in terms of experience, resources and outreach. In contrast to pure trust funds, partnerships involve a collaborative relationship towards mutually agreed objectives, seeking synergies through joint activities.

The changing landscape of development assistance emphasizes sector-wide approaches and national development programs requiring collaborative, multi-donor assistance efforts with common objectives. Effective evaluations in this context require greater donor collaboration and increased host country participation in evaluation processes-promoting shared learning to improve development effectiveness. Evaluation partnerships provide IEG with:

• additional technical expertise, methodological know-how, and in-country knowledge
• increased involvement of Borrower and key stakeholders in the evaluation process
• increased dissemination and utilization of evaluation findings and recommendations
• ways to improve donor coordination
• increased access to financial resources

An overview of IEG 's evaluation partnerships is available here.

Current Partnerships

1. Partnerships with Bilateral Cooperation Agencies: -These include: Ministry of Foreign Affairs / NORAD (Norway), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Switzerland); IOB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation (the Netherlands); and United Kingdom Department for International Development DFID. Specific information on these donor partnerships in terms of sectoral priorities and country priorities is provided in the Tables below on IEG Donor Evaluation Partnerships. IEG participates in the DAC Network on Development Evaluation.
   
   
2. Partnerships with Multilateral Organizations: -These include: the evaluation offices of Multilateral Development Banks and the IMF through the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG); evaluation offices of the UN system through the UN Evaluation Group.
   
3. Partnerships for Evaluation Capacity Development: As reflected in IEG 's formal mandate, a priority area is helping Borrowers to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation systems -- known as evaluation capacity development. IEG has been active in this area since the mid-1970s, and IEG 's partnerships remain an important means for supporting countries in their efforts.
   
4. Training Partnerships: The demand for professional evaluation of development policies, strategies, programs, and projects, is growing. In response to this context, IEG has partnered with Carleton University to organize the "International Program for Development Evaluation Training" (IPDET). It is a comprehensive, international program designed to help attendees develop skills to conduct meaningful evaluations of development interventions.

IEG Donor Evaluation Partnerships

Swiss Development Cooperation-IEG Partnership:

Purpose
Support for evaluation activities related to:

• effectiveness of poverty alleviation
• strengthening evaluation capacity
• building participation and ownership
• utilization of evaluation findings
• empowerment of Bank clients
• partners in developing countries

Areas of Support

• Aid coordination
• CDF evaluation
• environment
• forestry
• gender
• global financial architecture
• governance
• new instruments
• new lending products poverty
• private sector development
• rural poverty
• social funds
• social sectors
• social dimensions of crisis lending
• urban development
• HIPC
• Global Public Goods
• decentralization
• knowledge management

Donor Priority Countries

• West Africa
  Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger

• South East Africa
  South Africa, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania

• Latin America
  Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras

• South Asia
  Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan

• East Asia
  Laos, Vietnam

• Central Asia
  Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kyrgyz Republic, FYR Macedonia, Romania

• Middle East
  West Bank/Gaza

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / NORAD - IEG Partnership

Purpose
Focus on providing learning opportunities to both organizations, contributing to their renewal. Strengthen evaluation capacity of clients in developing countries (including NGOs) as well as that of Norway and the Bank.

Areas of Support

• Governance and anti corruption
• Social Development
• Economic Development
• CDF monitoring and evaluation
• Monitoring and evaluation capacity development
• Reconstruction including post conflict
• Knowledge Management Evaluation
• Gender
• Participation
• Environment and Natural Resource Management
• Organizational memory and Learning
• Private sector development in energy
• Evaluation training
• Water and Sanitation

Donor Priority Countries

• Africa
  Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

• Latin America
  Nicaragua

• South Asia
  Bangladesh, East Timor, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

• Europe and Central Asia
  Bosnia, FYR Macedonia

• Middle East
  West Bank/Gaza

• Priority Regions
  South and Eastern Africa, Central America, and South and Southeast Asia

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs-IEG Partnership
(under the Bank Netherlands Partnership Umbrella)

Purpose
Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development

Areas of Support

• evaluation capacity development (ECD) geared to the needs of PRSP/CDF 2000
• country led evaluation, starting with Mozambique
• International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
• training program in evaluation
• regional centers of competence in evaluation

Donor Priority Countries

• Africa
  Mali, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Egypt, and Zambia

• Latin America
  Nicaragua, Bolivia

• South and East Asia
  Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

• Eastern Europe
  Macedonia

• Middle East
  West Bank and Gaza, Yemen

United Kingdom Department for International Development DFID-IEG Partnership in Evaluation

Purpose
For IEG Impact Evaluation Program, Capacity Building in Evaluation, and IDEAS

Areas of Support

• Impact Evaluation (approxmiately 90% of the funds)
• Training program in evaluation (IPDET)
• International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) - for its launch only