Publication: Impact Evaluation to Inform and Transform Investments in Transport and ICT
Date
2015-06
ISSN
Published
2015-06
Author(s)
Vandycke, Nancy
Legovini, Arianna
Liaplina, Aleksandra
Di Maro, Vincenzo
Abstract
A new World Bank initiative, ‘Impact
Evaluation (IE) - connect for impact,’ aims to radically
transform and better inform the way that transport and
information and communications technology (ICT) projects are
designed and implemented. Although multilateral lending to
this key strategic sector comprises 29 percent of all global
assistance, only 0.4 percent of impact evaluations have had
transport as a subject. This initiative aims to fill the gap
and bring high quality and valuable feedback to projects,
improving design, enabling mid-course corrections, and
informing ex-post evaluations. For the first time, this
initiative will offer a systematic sector approach to
generating concrete evidence of what works, what does not,
where, when and why. It will greatly increase the impact and
value add of investments in transport and ICT projects,
which is especially important given global trends toward
increasing urbanization, with 70 percent of the world’s
population expected to live in cities by 2050.
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Citation
“Vandycke, Nancy; Legovini, Arianna; Liaplina, Aleksandra; Di Maro, Vincenzo. 2015. Impact Evaluation to Inform and Transform Investments in Transport and ICT. Transport and ICT connections,note no. 17;. © World Bank Group, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22295 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”