International Finance Corporation (IFC) - South Asia Enterprise Development Facility's (SEDF's) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team developed a results-based performance measurement system in order to assess the effectiveness of Value Addition to Firms (VA2F) interventions. The system is based...

Any organization can be good at discussing its successes and good practices. But can it be a truly effective agent for learning and change if success is all it discusses? Doesn't continual learning require being open about mistakes having the courage to talk about them so they can be corrected...

For two global programs a rural sanitation project and a hand-washing project with the goals of scaling up access to sanitation and increasing hygiene behaviors how can lessons be shared easily and efficiently with a global team across six countries, including headquarters-based staff? That is...

On December 26 2004, a 9.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Indian Ocean and unleashed a blast of energy, creating a tsunami three stories high. The disaster which claimed more than 228,000 lives had an impact on the lives of more than 2.5 million people causing close to US$ 11.4 billion of...

How do you bring public accountability for millions of dollars to a region where the population is largely uninformed and lacks the savvy to monitor the actions of the authorities? From 2006 to 2011, the mining industry in Peru transferred over $4,774 million in royalties to municipalities...

The communications and knowledge work of the World Bank Group takes many shapes; and although one commonality is its enhancement and support of the institutional mission and development objectives, communications and knowledge work is not always subject to monitoring processes as is the case...

When Uganda's Bujagali Hydropower Project was revived in preparation for a December 2007 Board approval, the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) were faced with a new potential wave of criticism from civil society, the...

Traditionally, International Finance Corporation (IFC) engagement in the water sector has focused on large municipal infrastructure projects, where individual transactions are of sufficient scale to attract commercial project finance. Such projects, involving capital-intensive network...

How can IFC support its clients when their financing needs are much greater than what the IFC can deliver? How can IFC maximize its development impact and play a catalytic role? How do IFC bring together large international financial institutions (IFIs) to provide Euro 24.5 billion in financial...

How do you achieve advisory services results on a shoestring budget and two staff? The many variables involved in managing and growing any regional program, including significant time spent in procuring expertise and short-term consultants, and in fund-raising to reduce the time available for...