Technology and data are integral to daily life. As health systems face increasing demands to deliver new, more, better, and seamless services affordable to all people, data and technology are essential. With the potential and perils of innovations like artificial intelligence the future of...

Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention. Both innovations in statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can...

The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Providing more effective aid and increasing its impact on development is one important contribution to this end. This report takes stock of progress made...

The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and institutional framework to poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and the effective use of development assistance. It plays an important role in the country performance ratings...

This evaluation covers mainly Component I for which the EC has undertaken interim evaluations covering programming and implementation of IPA assistance as part of the specific regulatory requirement for evaluation and programming needs under this Component. For Components II to V, interim...

The objective of this project is to carry out an interim evaluation of assistance provided to Albania under the EU Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) which has been the main EU assistance programme in the country since 2007. The scope of this evaluation is confined to IPA Component I (Transition...

The objective of this project is to carry out an interim evaluation of assistance provided to Kosovo under the EU Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) which has been the main EU assistance programme in the country since 2007. The scope of this evaluation is confined to IPA Component I (IPA-TAIB)...

The strategic/ interim evaluation of the IPA Component 1 for Serbia takes place in a larger frame, which includes similar exercises conducted in EU potential candidate countries in the Western Balkans.