The Annual Report provides an overview of the work undertaken by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) throughout 2020. It summarizes the evaluations completed, highlights lessons learned, describes evaluation capacity initiatives and dissemination efforts towards facilitating…
This report summarizes the results of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight's (OVE) annual validation of the self-assessments of project performance and results completed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest in 2019-2020. The IDB and IDB Invest have systems in…
This report evaluates the influence and value added of IMF advice on capital flows focusing on the period since the approval of the IV. Lessons from this evaluation are particularly germane as the global outlook for capital flows following the COVID-19 shock remains highly uncertain. Together…
This evaluation focused on Bank-Fund collaboration in the context of recent IMF pilot initiatives to enhance coverage of inequality, gender, energy/climate, and macro-structural reform in Article IV surveillance.
As part of its 2019-2020 annual work plan, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) prepared an evaluation of the 2016-2020 country program of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with Uruguay. This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) is the fourth independent evaluation of the Uruguay…
This is OVE's fourth full validation of the IDB Group's Evaluation Recommendation Tracking System (ReTS), and the second self-standing report. Assessing to what extent recommendations have been addressed is essential for institutional accountability and learning. After the Board of…