Impact Evaluation to Inform and Transform Investments in Transport and ICT
A new World Bank initiative, ‘Impact Evaluation (IE) - connect for impact,’ aims to radically transform and better inform the way that transport and information and communications technology (ICT) projects are designed and implemented. Although mul...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24812447/impact-evaluation-inform-transform-investments-transport-ict http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22295 |
| Summary: | A new World Bank initiative, ‘Impact
Evaluation (IE) - connect for impact,’ aims to radically
transform and better inform the way that transport and
information and communications technology (ICT) projects are
designed and implemented. Although multilateral lending to
this key strategic sector comprises 29 percent of all global
assistance, only 0.4 percent of impact evaluations have had
transport as a subject. This initiative aims to fill the gap
and bring high quality and valuable feedback to projects,
improving design, enabling mid-course corrections, and
informing ex-post evaluations. For the first time, this
initiative will offer a systematic sector approach to
generating concrete evidence of what works, what does not,
where, when and why. It will greatly increase the impact and
value add of investments in transport and ICT projects,
which is especially important given global trends toward
increasing urbanization, with 70 percent of the world’s
population expected to live in cities by 2050. |
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