Group IE experience, from initiation to dissemination and uptake stages.10 The selection is purposive and not representative of client countries of the World Bank Group; it includes those countries with a high number of completed IEs and maintains regional and sectoral balance. Subsequently, two or three projects were selected in each country as case study projects for in-depth review. Country-level reviews entailed desk reviews of the case study IEs and related project documents as well as structured interviews (including in the field) with internal and external stakeholders involved in the IEs and evaluated projects. IEG reviewed a total of 22 completed and ongoing IEs covering ten Bank projects and two IFC projects. Eighty-five stakeholders were interviewed: 34 were Bank Group staff, 29 were staff of the government or affiliations, 8 were from the private sector, and 14 were from academia or research institutions. The list of interviewees is available on request. In addition, IEG incorporated the findings (obtained from similar methods) of seven desk-based country studies done for a previous IEG review of IE evidence and use in the nutrition sector (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Madagascar, the Philippines, Senegal, and Uganda).11 The projects in the country case studies are listed in appendix B, table B.3. • Sector case study: An education sector case study investigated the World Bank education portfolio of projects closed in fiscal year 2009 to determine the scope of IE work based on technical considerations. The case study structure is outlined in appendix C. • Interviews with World Bank Group management: Finally, the team conducted structured interviews with 21 World Bank sector managers, sector directors, and chief economists and with 13 IFC global and regional business line leaders and M&E officers to gain insights from Bank Group management about the motivation and influence of IEs at the institutional level. The interviewees were selected randomly to be broadly representative of the management structure with respect to sector or business line and region (appendix B).
Notes 1 The meeting of a group of World Bank member countries held every three years to replenish a major fund allocated exclusively to interest-free credits and grants for the world’s poorest countries. 2 A key element of this is to increase the number of projects with appropriate evaluation frameworks, continue efforts to improve their quality, and enhance the learning stemming from the evaluation process in IDA projects to strengthen feedback loops for project design (World Bank 2011). Bank management has agreed to the request and a strategy paper is in process. 3 This review includes past and current IEs conducted by major international IE initiatives such as DIME, PREM, the Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (Jones and others 2009).
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