Although many development partners have been discussing impact and evaluation for the last 30 years of international development, there still seems to be disagreement on indicators, impact, and how to collect the data, and discussions are ongoing. Evaluations and impact assessments are crucial...

In advisory services, the author often tries to develop markets for capacity building services where currently there is no visible demand or supply. For the Corporate Governance (CG) Program in Southern Europe, the author developed a market-based approach to enable our partners to explore new...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has successfully developed sustainable energy projects in a number of emerging markets over the last decade. While each intervention is tailored to its specific markets and the needs of clients, in general the initiatives have focused on using local...

In September 2007, the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) requested that the Board of Investment draft an economic zones policy (EZ Policy). The policy was to cover the entire zone regime of Bangladesh, including export processing zones, industrial estates, and special economic zones, both public...

A low ranking in the ease of contract enforcement in the 2006 World Bank doing business report prompted Tonga's government to seek remedial action. This paper charts the range of activist measures, in particular the introduction of electronic case management and mediation, both of them...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) Program for Eastern Indonesian Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development (IFC-PENSA) launched its Handicraft Export Promotion Program in January 2005. The program ran for 2.5 years, and its ambition was to revive the handicraft industry in Bali...

The Private Enterprise Partnership for the Middle East and North Africa (PEP-MENA) corporate governance program highlight the importance of securing a real and demonstrable commitment by a company's senior officers and directors before embarking on the journey of corporate governance reform....

In parallel with International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) investment in the Sandora juice company in Ukraine, IFC implemented an advisory project to help build Sandora's supply chain. The project's broader objective was to improve market access and long-term sustainability for vegetable...

Impact monitoring and quality assurance has always been an uphill task for donors, implementing agencies, and recipient agencies. In the last few decades, authors have witnessed the evolution of impact monitoring work with lots of new methodologies and concepts, resulting in thick documents that...

Seven hundred miles from Cairo, the Siwa Oasis is located close to the Libyan border in Egypt's Western Desert. Alexander the Great came through here in 331 BC for a consultation with the Oracle of Amun. The remote Oasis was connected to the rest of Egypt only when an asphalt road was built in...