Ensuring a good monitoring & evaluation systems is becoming increasingly important. Timely Indicators are needed for the design of lending operations and monitor the impacts of shocks. However, limited data availability has been one of major bottlenecks. Tackling these data constraints is imperative to advance in the “Results Agenda”. more »

This course touched on innovative techniques and tools being used by Poverty teams across the World Bank. Innovations include the role of attitudes and values, spatial dimensions of poverty and multidimensional poverty measures based on subjective poverty indicators.more »

The recent crises have exposed the ongoing vulnerability of developing countries to production, price and climate shocks. Even as countries recover from the global financial crisis, sharp increases in food and fuel prices threaten to slow the recovery and place millions more at the risk of falling into poverty. more »

Equity is an area of increasing interest. Substantial reductions in global poverty have -in some cases- been coupled with stubbornly high levels of inequality. There is no clear explanation of why that is. Frequent crises also raise questions about the equity implications of public policies. more »

How can impact evaluation be included in project design and learning? This one day course presented the current methods and discussed benefits of impact evaluation, experiences from the field, and a practical exercise. more »

Effective policies need to be based on evidence about their results and about the right course of their implementation. M&E systems are a critical component for evidence-based policymaking. The course touched on concepts, tools, data collection, and institutional incentives to support and sustain monitoring and evaluation systems more »