Publication: Learning and Results in World Bank Operations : How the Bank Learns, Evaluation 1
Date
2014-07
ISSN
Published
2014-07
Author(s)
Independent Evaluation Group
Abstract
Knowledge, learning, and innovation
are one of eight objectives that will be monitored in the
Bank's new strategy. The independent evaluation group
(IEG) is conducting a program of learning and results
evaluations to promote a better understanding of how the
World Bank acquires, captures, and transfers knowledge and
learning in its lending operations, and what scope there is
for improving. The objective of the program is to delineate
attributes of effective learning in World Bank lending.
These attributes refer to learning into lending (inputs into
project design); learning while lending (feedback and
modifications of design and implementation while the project
is underway); and learning from lending (lessons from the
project that were transmitted to other projects). The
evaluation program will assess how the Bank can become
better at generating, accessing, and using learning and
knowledge in its lending operations. It acknowledges the
importance of the feedback from knowledge to learning and
from learning back to enhanced knowledge. The report is
organized as follows: chapter one gives approach and
context. Chapter two explores two essential aspects of
learning - knowledge exploitation and knowledge exploration
and the factors influencing them. Chapter three examines the
contribution of mentoring. Chapter four addresses the extent
to which incentives, leadership, and culture are aligned to
promote learning in lending. Chapter five considers the
implications of the report's findings, for the
Bank's change process, for IEG, and for the design of
the second evaluation in IEG's learning and results series.
Citation
“Independent Evaluation Group. 2014. Learning and Results in World Bank Operations : How the Bank Learns, Evaluation 1. © World Bank Group, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19982 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”