A Bridge to the Future - Learning from the Past through Evaluation : IEG Annual Report 2021
Much as for the rest of the World Bank Group, the past year has required an unprecedented degree of adaptation and agility from all staff at the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). For many, fiscal year (FY)21 may feel like a bridge between the old...
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| Format: | Annual Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/852461633022407743/A-Bridge-to-the-Future-Learning-from-the-Past-through-Evaluation-IEG-Annual-Report-2021 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36320 |
| Summary: | Much as for the rest of the World Bank
Group, the past year has required an unprecedented degree of
adaptation and agility from all staff at the Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG). For many, fiscal year (FY)21 may
feel like a bridge between the old life and the new. At the
beginning of FY21, we were just growing accustomed to the
full-time remote work required by a worsening global
coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and realizing that the
changes were semipermanent. At IEG, we settled in for the
long haul, quickly adjusting our ways of sharing information
and methods of evaluation to overcome these new challenges.
By the end of the fiscal year, we had built confidence in
our abilities to collect data, interview distant
stakeholders, and devise new remote mission strategies.
Evaluation too acts like a bridge, connecting hindsight and
foresight through the objective analysis of past programs to
find evidence that supports and informs positive change. Our
job as evaluators is to share the insights and lessons
derived from this evidence. In FY21, IEG focused on
responding agilely to changing circumstances and innovating
how we collected data and delivered our findings to those
who needed them, when they needed them. We adapted our work
program to align with the Bank Group’s COVID-19 pandemic
response while continuing to build a pipeline of relevant,
timely, and robust evaluations focused on long-term
development challenges. |
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