Title: Development impact evaluation initiative : a World Bank-wide strategic approach to enhance developmental effectiveness
Abstract: Created in 2005 in the Bank's Chief Economist Office, Development Impact Evaluation Initiative (DIME) was re-launched in 2009 as a broad-based decentralized effort to mainstream the use of impact evaluation in the Bank. The effort is led by a high level steering group, coordinated by a secretariat based in Development Economics (DEC), and implemented by all networks and regions. DIME's objective is to improve the quality of the Bank's operations, strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policy making, and generate knowledge in fifteen strategic development areas. Impact evaluation falls within the larger context of the Bank's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts and the results agenda (RA). The M&E effort aims at ensuring that all Bank's instruments count with a results framework and a data collection plan. M&E also supports governments and operations build monitoring systems. Working through the Bank's extensive network of relationships with government, DIME commits to work in full collaboration with country institutions for the medium term and throughout a full iterative process of learning. The results agenda systematizes the use of results Bank-wide by introducing the use of common indicators in Bank's operations, stimulating the adoption of a results-based culture, and shifting from input based to output- and outcome-based reporting. The impact evaluation studies in this program will focus on questions of legitimacy and utilization of public institutions, public service delivery, local collective action, social capital and trust in elected officials. All impact evaluations will be carried out in partnership with governments and implementing agencies, strengthening their capacity for evidence-based policy decision making and critical reflection of policies.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-29
Language: en
Type: article
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