What Difference Does Good Monitoring and Evaluation Make to World Bank Project Performance?
For more than 20 years, the development community has claimed that monitoring and evaluation helps projects achieve their objectives. This study uses data from 1,300 World Bank projects evaluated between 2008 and 2014 to investigate this suggested...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26514566/difference-good-monitoring-evaluation-make-world-bank-project-performance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24644 |
| Summary: | For more than 20 years, the development
community has claimed that monitoring and evaluation helps
projects achieve their objectives. This study uses data from
1,300 World Bank projects evaluated between 2008 and 2014 to
investigate this suggested link between the quality of
monitoring and evaluation and project performance. The
propensity score matching results indicate that the quality
of monitoring and evaluation is significantly and positively
associated with project outcome as institutionally measured
at the World Bank. This positive relationship holds when
controlling for project manager identity, and is robust to
various specification choices. Through a systematic text
analysis of the narrative produced by the Independent
Evaluation Group to justify its monitoring and evaluation
quality rating, the study shows that there are common
markers of good quality monitoring and evaluation, such as:
clear institutional setup and division of labor around
monitoring and evaluation activities; simple monitoring and
evaluation framework that is well aligned with clients'
existing monitoring and evaluation systems; good integration
with operational tasks; and a system that can generate
regular and timely reporting, and that is used during and
after lending. |
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