IFAD IOE on social media
To reach a broader audience, IFAD IOE has launched an IOE Twitter account and YouTube channel. Over the coming weeks, IOE plans to expand the current library by adding, for example, event and learning activity-related videos.
More importantly, they need 100 subscribers to upgrade to the youtube.com/IFADeval/ link. They need your help!
Marvin Taylor-Dormond Appointed Director-General of Independent Evaluation at ADB
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Marvin Taylor-Dormond, formerly with the World Bank Group (WBG), as its new director-general of Independent Evaluation. Mr. Taylor-Dormond has a long association with evaluation in a 26-year career in multilateral development banking, focusing over the past several years on private sector operations and sustainable development.
ADB's Engagement with Middle-Income Countries
Middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face several evolving development challenges, including poverty, inequality, unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation and climate change, low productivity and lack of competitiveness, macroeconomic instability, and insufficient economic diversification. At the same time, these countries have displayed dynamism that has created new opportunities.
ADB Support for Sri Lanka Scores on Infrastructure But Not Fiscal Reforms
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (21 November 2016) —The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has released an independent evaluation report that assesses its $5.5 billion program for Sri Lanka in the 10 years to the end of 2015. The program made a substantial contribution to expanding infrastructure services in the country especially in lagging regions and former conflict-affected areas. 
Information and Communication Technologies for Evaluation (ICT4Eval)
The Independent Evaluation Office of IFAD is organising a two-day international conference which will look at innovative approaches to the use of ICTs applied to the field of development evaluation and emerging best practices therein.
New member publications available in the ECG Document Library
The following documents, recently published by ECG members, are now available in the ECG Document Library:
World Bank publications
ECG Spring 2017 meeting
The ECG Spring 2017 meeting was hosted by IFAD IOE at IFAD headquarters in Rome. Full details only available to ECG members.