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IEG’s Experience with Partnership Program Evaluations

Anna Aghumian Evaluation Officer Independent Evaluation Group

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To promote knowledge exchange and shared learning on partnership programs by:

• Sharing IEG’s main findings

and lessons on partnership program evaluations

• Discussing IEG’s new

approach to mainstreaming partnership work

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Partnerships help deliver

Partnership Programs allow the WBG to expand and complement its activities:

• scale up work on global public goods, such as knowledge
• provide immediate assistance in response to natural disasters, crises
• provide coordinated response to global priorities, challenges

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Partnerships are also big business Over 1000 trust funds holding $28.9 billion:

• 80% contributed by bilateral donors
• Financial Intermediary Funds account for 63%
• About 200 have shared governance arrangements

(GRPPs)

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IEG Findings on partnership programs

• Stronger selectivity at entering new partnerships is needed to avoid aid

fragmentation

• Clarity of governance arrangements is key for effective partnership
• Strategic relevance should translate into effective linkages to country

programs, when appropriate

• More attention to M&E is needed to gather evidence on the achievement
• f the programs’ objectives

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IEG Findings on external evaluations

• f partnership programs
• Quality and credibility of external evaluations vary
• Growing consensus on application of evaluation criteria
• Lack of shared understanding and coordination around

standards that should guide the evaluation process, follow up and use

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• Facilitate greater alignment with the new WBG strategy
• Draw attention to results generated through the Bank’s

global and regional engagements at sector, thematic and country levels

• Better integrate evaluative evidence on global programs into

sector, thematic, country, and corporate evaluations

IEG’s approach to mainstreaming partnerships in major evaluations

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How to mainstream partnerships

• Assess broader array of

partnership programs

• Help teams define the scope of

partnership assessment at the inception stage

• Use flexible methodology

tailored to the objectives

• f major evaluation

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Looking ahead and beyond the World Bank Group

Partnerships are collaborative efforts and there is decades of experience among the development partners on building effective partnerships that we need to share and learn from to improve their effectiveness

Think about…

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• How can we improve the quality and credibility of

partnership program evaluations?

• How can we learn better from the evaluative

evidence on partnerships to inform the post-2015 development agenda and its implementation?

• What concrete measures can we offer to help

strengthen strategic partnerships and improve their effectiveness?

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A suggestion

IEG would host a workshop jointly with interested multilateral and bilateral partners to find ways to advance this agenda

Thank you!

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