Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB or “the Bank”) has conducted an evaluation of the AfDB’s Portfolio Review and Restructuring Policy and its implementing guidelines, over the period 2011 – 2019.
Evaluations
Date: 19/03/2021
Corporate evaluation
Date: 02/03/2021
Project cluster evaluation
This project cluster evaluation of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB or “the Bank”) support for and mainstreaming of Green Growth and Climate Change (GG-CC) into its energy and transport interventions is a building block in the overall corporate evaluation of mainstreaming GG-CC into the AfDB's interventions. It covers seven energy and transport projects in five countries: Cameroon, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal, for a total value of UA 394.4 million.
Date: 02/03/2021
Corporate evaluation
As the transition to green growth is one of the two overarching objectives of the African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB or "the Bank") Ten-Year Strategy (2013–2022), Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) conducted an evaluation of the AfDB’s efforts to mainstream Green Growth (GG) and Climate Change (CC) into its interventions between 2008 and 2018.
Date: 23/02/2021
Corporate evaluation
In 2020, IDEV conducted an evaluation of the Bank’s engagement with Civil Society at the corporate, regional member country and project levels over the period 2012-2019. It examined the extent to which the Bank’s conceptualization of Civil Society Engagement (CSE) has been relevant and coherent, and how effectively and efficiently CSE has been operationalized in the Bank, on the basis of the Bank’s CSE Framework.
Date: 16/02/2021
Project Completion Report and Expanded Supervision Report Validation synthesis
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) undertakes self-evaluation of its non-sovereign operations (NSOs) through Expanded Supervision Reports (XSRs) produced by the designated Bank departments for projects that reach Early Operating Maturity. Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) subsequently reviews a sample of these XSRs and produces an XSR Evaluation Note for each XSR reviewed, as well as a synthesis report for the period under study, in this case, 2014-2019.
Date: 18/12/2020
Project Completion Report and Expanded Supervision Report Validation synthesis
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB or “the Bank”) undertakes self-evaluations of its sovereign operations through Project Completion Reports (PCRs) prepared by the Bank’s operations departments. Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) at the Bank subsequently validates the PCRs, and prepares PCR evaluation notes (PCRENs) and a synthesis report on each year’s PCRENs.