Lessons from evaluation
Lessons from the coalition
The Lessons from Evaluation series provides timely summaries of evaluation evidence to inform the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a Coalition led and authored series of demand-driven summaries, with issues produced by different Coalition members and benefiting from the collective evidence base of our members.
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Issue 2: Gender Equality in Education |
| September 2020 | |
| Synthesis of evaluative evidence about how to support gender equality within education systems | |
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| August 2020 | |
| A summary of evidence from evaluations about how to address food security challenges |
Lessons from members
To provide real-time insights for decision makers, Coalition members are producing their own Lessons Learned notes and summaries of evidence from evaluations.
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Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Crisis – 13 Lessons from Evaluation |
| February 2020 - source: ADB | |
| As the world faces the daunting task of containing the spread of COVID-19 and treating the ill, past evaluations of the financial and technical responses from multilateral agencies including the Asian Development Bank to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Ebola, and Avian Influenza provide some lessons on supporting countries during and after the critical phases of the outbreaks. | |
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3 lessons from past public health crises for the global response to COVID-19 (coronavirus) |
| May 2020 - source: World Bank | |
| As the public health emergency of the novel coronavirus spreads globally, there is growing interest in how the international community can support countries’ responses to COVID-19 (coronavirus). By analysing information from recent IEG evaluations of the World Bank Group’s response to public health crises, three lesson areas that shed light on what works and where attention is needed to deliver both an immediate and a long-term response to the current crisis were identified. | |
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Lessons from Evaluations - Support and Financing to the Formal Private Sector in Response to COVID-19 |
| May 2020 - source: World Bank | |
| How can the World Bank Group help keep the formal private sector alive during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis? This note identifies core lessons for the Bank Group on addressing the impact of the crisis on business and enterprises, based on evaluative evidence from the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). It particularly draws on Bank Group experiences in addressing earlier crises, including the global economic crisis of 2008–10, the food crisis of 2007–8, and the East Asian crisis of 1998. | |
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Lessons from Evaluations: UNDP Support to the Health Sector |
| May 2020 - source: UNDP IEO | |
| To support the UNDP response to COVID-19, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has undertaken a review of lessons from past evaluations of UNDP’s work in crisis contexts. This paper focuses on health sector support. | |
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Lessons from Evaluations: UNDP Support to Livelihoods Restoration and Job Creation in Crisis Countries |
| May 2020 - source: UNDP IEO | |
| To support the UNDP response to COVID-19, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has undertaken a review of lessons from past evaluations of UNDP’s work in crisis contexts. This paper focuses on support to livelihoods restoration. | |
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Lessons from Evaluations: UNDP Support to Social Protection |
| May 2020 - source: UNDP IEO | |
| To support the UNDP response to COVID-19, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has undertaken a review of lessons from past evaluations of UNDP’s work in crisis contexts. This paper focuses on social protection support. | |
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Lessons from Evaluations: UNDP Governance Support to Countries in Crisis |
| May 2020 - source: UNDP IEO | |
| To support the UNDP response to COVID-19, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has undertaken a review of lessons from past evaluations of UNDP’s work in crisis contexts. This paper focuses on governance support. | |
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Responding to COVID-19: Lessons from Previous Support to Micro, Small, and Medium- Sized Enterprises |
| June 2020 - ADB | |
| This synthesis note aims to extract lessons from the previous micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) operations of ADB and its development partners (including nonbank and private sector financial institutions) to help guide the design of future ADB operations in relation to the COVID-19 crisis. Lessons from past financing support provided to MSMEs to cope with the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis and the 2008–2009 global financial crisis have a continuing relevance for the ADB support that may have to be considered both during the crisis and afterwards. | |
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Lessons for AfDB’s response to COVID-19 |
| June 2020 - source: AfDB IDEV | |
| The African Development Bank has created a micro site dedicated to COVID-19, also available in French. Check out the Lessons Notes published specifically to support the Bank's response to COVID-19. |
Members’ resources on evaluating COVID-19
The Coalition aims to support collaboration and sharing of knowledge between members. This list provides links to member’s resources on COVID-19 evaluation activities.
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Technical Note for Planning and Conducting Evaluations during COVID-19 |
| April 2020 - source: WFP | |
| The objective of this internal note is to support decision-making processes about ongoing and planned evaluations (centralized and decentralized), ensure transparency and consistency of approaches, and clarity on the principles that should guide evaluation management during the currently constrained circumstances for evaluations other than impact evaluations. | |
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Good Practices during COVID-19. IEO/UNDP and OECD/DAC Evalnet Joint Guidance Note for Evaluation Units |
| April 2020 - source: OECD / DAC Evalnet & UNDP IEO | |
| Building on informal consultations in a series of knowledge-sharing exchanges, consultations and webinars, the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) and the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP have prepared a joint guidance note capturing good practices for evaluation units during COVID-19. | |
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Evaluation in Crisis |
| source: European Commission | |
| The European Commission DG DEVCO/ESS launched Evaluation in Crisis, building on the challenges brought in by the global COVID-19 pandemic | |
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Evaluation During COVID-19 |
| source: UNDP IEO | |
| Check out UNDP Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) page on Evaluating during COVID-19. |
Additional resources on COVID-19
A compilation of resources on COVID-19 covering a wide range of topics to help understand and address the crisis.
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Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition |
| June 2020 - source: UN | |