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Title: Evaluation Cooperation Group Presentation to the DAC Network on Development Evaluation 9/10 November 2004 Role and functioning of the Evaluation Cooperation Group


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Evaluation Cooperation GroupPresentation to
the DAC Network on Development Evaluation 9/10
November 2004Role and functioning of the
Evaluation Cooperation Group
  • Fredrik Korfker
  • Corporate Director for Evaluation, EBRD
  • Chair ECG

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Establishment of the Evaluation Cooperation Group
(ECG)
  • Development Committee, Report of the Task Force
    on Multilateral Development Banks, March 15,
    1996, DC/96-01, p. 18 referred to the importance
    of evaluation
  • But earlier, anticipating a request by the
    Development Committee, the heads of the
    independent evaluation departments in the MDBs
    created the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) in
    October 1995
  • The first meeting of the ECG was in February 1996.

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Objectives of the ECG
  • Strengthen cooperation among evaluators
  • Seeks to harmonize evaluation methodology in its
    member institutions
  • to enable improved comparability of evaluation
    results while
  • taking into account the differing circumstances
    of each institution.

4
Harmonisation
  • Harmonisation in the ECG includes increased
    information sharing and improved understanding of
    commonalities and differences in evaluation
    policies, procedures, methods and practices
  • Harmonisation is not interpreted by members as
    standardisation of evaluation policies and
    practices.
  • To harmonise is to bring into consonance or
    accord.
  • It allows for different voices and diversity
    among institutions in their quest to achieve good
    practice standards.

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The scope of the ECG
  • The ECG may take up any matter relating to
    evaluation in the MDBs that will
  • enhance the effectiveness of independent and
    self-evaluation,
  • engage in the sharing of lessons, and
  • promote harmonisation among the MDBs.

6
Membership of the ECG
  • The ECG has a three-tier structure and is
    composed of founding members, core members and
    observers
  • ECG membership is restricted to the founding and
    core members.
  • Sub-regional development banks and other IFIs may
    be invited to the working group meetings as
    observers for participation on specific topics.
  • Members may organize meetings to brief
    sub-regional development banks and other IFIs on
    evaluation developments and ECG progress in key
    areas

7
Founding ECG members (1995)
  • Heads of Evaluation of the five MDBs AfrDB,
    AsDB, IDB (including IIC), EBRD and the World
    Bank Group (including IFC and MIGA).
  • Only the founding members are bound by the
    original harmonization mandate set by the MDB
    Heads in 1996,
  • Only founding members may therefore vote on ECG
    harmonization-related issues, such as good
    practice standards.

8
Core ECG members
  • Those members who have subsequently joined the
    ECG. They are the EIB (1998) and the IMF
    (2001).
  • Core members may not vote on harmonisation-related
    issues, the core members are encouraged to move
    towards harmonisation.

9
Observers
  • UNDP's Evaluation Unit, as Chair of the United
    Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG),
  • the Chair of the DAC Network on Development
    Evaluation
  • Observers are not ECG members and have no voting
    powers

10
Governance
  • ECG members will select yearly a chairperson on a
    rotational basis from among the founding members,
    and if deemed desirable, a co-chairperson.
  • The ECG chair proposes meeting agendas after
    consultation with the members.
  • The chair prepares an aide-memoir for the ECG
    meetings and the Progress Report on the ECG
    submitted to the Heads of MDB and MFI annual
    meetings, and submits these documents to members
    for their approval.
  • In executing its activities, the ECG may set up
    working groups, as needed, with specific Terms of
    Reference. Working group members will be drawn
    from the ECG membership and consultants may be
    recruited for assistance.

11
Work Programme
  • Considering the increasing importance of the
    Millennium Development Goals, the Monterrey
    Consensus, and Managements commitment to a
    results framework, the ECG is focusing now on the
    following four priority areas of work
  • Country Program and Country Assistance Evaluation
    Methodology
  • Policy Based Lending Evaluation Methodology
  • Evaluation Capacity Development in DMCs
  • Role Refinement between Independent and
    Self-evaluation

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Other priority areas
  • ECG Members will also devote greater attention to
    comparative evaluation
  • governance
  • disclosure of evaluation findings
  • attestation and evaluability
  • regional and global public goods
  • annual reporting
  • joint evaluations

13
Evaluation Products of ECG
  • Good Practice Standards on the evaluation of
    individual public sector operations
  • Good Practice Standards on the evaluation of
    individual private sector operations
  • Good Practice for the evaluation of policy based
    lending operations in MDBs (soon to be published)
  • Work is ongoing among the core ECG members to
    harmonise around these Good Practice Standards
    (see report on recent ECG meeting)

14
ECG Meeting - October 2004
  • Discussion on harmonisation and results agendas
    and contributions of ECG members in preparation
    for HLF-2 in Paris (March 2005)
  • Reviewed the preparation of Good Practice
    Standards on PBL (phase 2 to PBL publication)
  • Revisited the Independence of evaluation
    function
  • External Review of the WBs Evaluation Function
    and DGOs mandate
  • ECGs cooperation in the pilot phase of the
    Evaluation of Multilateral Organisations study
    initiated by the DAC Evaluation Network
    importance of collaboration

15
ECG Meeting (cont.)
  • Working Group on Private Sector Evaluation
  • Discussion of outcomes of the second Benchmarking
    exercise of GPS on private sector evaluation
  • Comparability of sets of indicators to show
    comparable results among MDBs taking into account
    the mandate of each of the institutions
  • Decided on initiating a benchmarking exercise on
    GPS of Public Sector Evaluation

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ECG Meeting (cont.)
  • Evaluation Capacity Development
  • Compared recent developments and plans for next
    ECG meeting (exchange of experience by AfrDB and
    AsDB)
  • Evaluation of technical assistance (TA) review
    of IMF experience and decision that no GPS on TA
    imminent
  • Action on dissemination of Lessons learned
  • Video conference on exchange of lessons among
    MDBs
  • Establish more formal contacts to enhance use of
    lessons learned in the institutions

17
Conclusion
  • ECG has progressed on key good practice standards
  • Established good relationships among ECG members
    and observers (bilaterals and UN)
  • Contributions by ECG towards harmonisation and
    results agendas
  • Willingness among members to push for
    comparability of results

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"By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by
reflection, which is noblest Second, by
imitation, which is easiest and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
(c. 551-479? BC), Chinese sage
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