World Bank Operations Evaluation Department : the first 30 years /

Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2003
Table of Contents:
  • Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
  • Foreword by President James D. Wolfensohn
  • Massege from Former President Robert S. McNamara
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Pt. 1. Perspectives on the evolution of OED: 1. First experiments in Operation Evaluation : roots, hopes, and gaps / Christopher Willoughby, Successively Unit Chief, Division Chief, and Department Director for Operations Evaluation, 1970-76
  • 2. Institutionalizing the evaluation function at the World Bank, 1975-84 / Mervyn L. Weiner, First Director-General, Operations Evalution, 1975-84
  • 3. Building up the capacity and influence of evaluation in the Bank and outside, 1986-92 / Yves Rovani, Director-General, Operations Evaluation, 1986-92
  • 4. From working methods to business plan, 1984-94 / Graham Donaldson, Chief, OED Division 1, 1984-94
  • 5. Promoting professional and personal trust in OED / H. Eberhard Kp̲p, Director, Operations Evaluation Department, 1990-95
  • 6. The logic of renewal: evaluation at the World Bank, 1992-2002 / Robert Picciotto, Director-General, Operations Evaluation, 1992-2002
  • 7. OED renewal: participation, partnership, and results / Elizabeth McAllister, Director, Operations Evaluation Department, 1997-2000
  • Pt. 2. Relations with board and management: 8. Promoting a culture of accountability and learning / Pieter Stek, Former World Bank Executive Director and Chairman, Committee on Development Effectiveness
  • 9. Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of OED / Shengman Zhang, World Bank Managing Director
  • 10. Panel discussion: perspectives on evaluatiopn in the Bank today / Prem Garg, Director, Quality Assurance Group, World Bank; Joanne Salop, Vice President and Senior Advisor, World Bank; Jan Piercy, Former United States Executive Director, World Bank
  • Pt. 3. Relations with clients and partners: 11. Evaluation capacity development / Keith Mackay, Senior Evaluation Officer, OEDPK, and Coordinator for Evaluation Capacity Development
  • 12. Evolution of OED's evaluation partnerships / Osvaldo Feinstein, Manager, Partnerships and Knowledge Management , OEDPK; Rema N. Balasundaram, Evaluation Officer, OEDPK
  • Pt. 4. Challenges of development evaluation: 13. The global challenge of development evaluation / Robert Picciotto, Director-General, Operations Evaluation, 1992-2002
  • 14. Broadening the constituency for evaluation / Sulley Gariba, President of the International Development Evaluation Association
  • 15. Politics, aid, and development evaluation / Eduardo Weisner, Former Minister of Finance, Colombia, and Former Executive Director, World Bank
  • 16.The challenges of development evaluation: some conclusions / Gregory K. Ingram, Director-General, Operations Evaluation
  • Annexes: Annex A. Reflections from former and current OED staff
  • Annex B. OED: the first 30 years
  • Annex C. Institutional changes for independent evaluation at the World Bank: a chronology (1970-2002).