Evaluation for Better Results

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PART I: DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION CONTEXT -- 1 Development Evaluation in Asia and the Pacific -- 2 What Is Development Effectiveness? -- 3 Evidence-Based Policies in Asia's Development -- PART II: MEETING EVALUATION CHALLENGES -- 4 Evaluation and Results in Asia -- 5 The Journey to Independent Evaluation at ADB -- 6 Accountability and Learning: Two Sides of the Same Coin -- PART III: EVALUATION APPROACHES -- 7 Corporate Evaluations in the World Bank Group: Approaches to Enhance Rigor and Evaluation Impact -- 8 Influential Evaluations at ADB -- 9 Developing a Gender-Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation System for International Development Agencies -- PART IV: STRENGTHENING EVALUATION CAPACITY AND COUNTRY EVALUATION SYSTEMS -- 10 India's Independent Evaluation Office: A New Approach -- 11 Results-Based Evaluation in Malaysia -- 12 Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Asia and the Pacific -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.