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Linking to Results

Linking to Results. Briefing for EARD 25 May 2007. Learning Lessons. Value of Evaluations find out what results are being achieved, what improvements should be considered, and what is being learned; demonstrate good governance; advance understanding of what ADB aims to accomplish.

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Linking to Results

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  1. Linking to Results Briefing for EARD25 May 2007

  2. Learning Lessons • Value of Evaluations • find out what results are being achieved, what improvements should be considered, and what is being learned; demonstrate good governance; advance understanding of what ADB aims to accomplish • Typology of Lessons • operational and developmental • Informing Practice • identify shortcomings, set out courses of action, increase institutional learning, inform key audiences

  3. Learning Lessons(continued) • Building Value • improve development practice, enhance institutional learning, validate hypotheses, facilitate identification of issues and resolution of problems • Reaching Out • get the right knowledge to the right people at the right time, and help them to apply it • Caveat • internal and external result-sharing activities are affected by assessment problems; no single best practice; approaches need to be context specific

  4. ADB Operations Departments (monitoring and evaluation, results agenda, applied learning) ADB Management DMCs (use and follow-up of evaluations, (use of evaluations, evaluation capacity development, influence on ADB directions) joint evaluations) International Evaluation ADB Board of Directors Community (oversight) (harmonization and joint evaluations) OED (evaluations, monitoring and evaluation, expertise self-assessment) Audiences for Evaluations

  5. OED-International Evaluation Community OED-OED OED-ADB OED-DMCs Organizational Context Organizational Knowledge Inter- and Intra-Organizational Relationships External Environment Interfaces for Lesson Learning

  6. Influential Evaluations • Building a Results-Based Management Framework • Promoting Portfolio Performance • Improving Country Partnership Strategies • Contributing to Safeguard Policy Update Involuntary Resettlement Indigenous Peoples Environment

  7. Directions in Evaluation • Assigning Resources to Broader Evaluation Studies • Harmonizing Evaluation Standards • (Jointly) Evaluating Country/Sector Assistance Programs • Validating Country Partnership Strategy and Project/Program Completion Reports • Evaluating Impact • Developing Evaluation Capacity • Promoting Portfolio Performance • Evaluating Business Processes • Disseminating Findings and Recommendations

  8. New Knowledge Products & Services • All interfaces • Learning Lessons in ADB: Strategic Framework, 2007–2009; Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank; OED website; EVIS; promotional materials (OED Newsletters, Learning Curves, Sector Summations, and Success Rates); KM Helpdesk; ADB Depository Library Program; ADB Public Information Center; YouTube; targeted information bites; external e-newsletters; paid advertising on Google • OED-OED • CoP; CoP platform; OED QuickPlace workspace; communications framework with OSEC; OED team room • OED-ADB • OED presentations; articles in ADB Today,AFE-ADB Newsletter, etc.; evaluation references in ADB’s Library; workshops, seminars, and brown bag sessions on knowledge management • OED-DMCs • RETAs on evaluation capacity development • OED-International evaluation community • ECGnet, SHIPDET, miscellaneous forums on harmonizing evaluation work

  9. Interested? • Country Assistance Program Evaluations China, People’s Republic of: Approved in April 2007 • Sector Assistance Program Evaluations India Transport Sector: For approval on IV May 2007 India Power Sector: For approval on III July 2007 • Project/Program Evaluations L508-MON Education Sector Development: For approval in IV July 2007 L1569-MON Health Sector Development Program: For approval in I September 2007 L1364-MON Roads Devt Project and Rapid Assessment of the Roads: For approval in III Nov 07 L1626-PRC Guizhou-Shuibai Railway Project: For approval in May 2007 • Private Sector Evaluations PRC SMEs, Liberty New World China: For approval in IV November 2007 • Special Evaluation Studies MON (CAM, INO, LAO, NEP, PHI, TAJ) Evaluation of Japan Funds: For approval on I July 2007

  10. www.adb.org/evaluation

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