The African Development Bank Group undertakes self-evaluation of its non-sovereign operations (NSOs) through the Expanded Supervision Reports (XSRs) produced by the designated Bank departments for projects that reach Early Operating Maturity. Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) subsequently reviews the XSRs and produces an XSR Evaluation Note (XSR-EN) for each XSR, as well as a synthesis report for the period under review, in this case 2014-2019.
The Synthesis report aims at reporting the aggregate, independently validated project level results of Bank private sector operations in a clear, concise, and accessible format. The report will also contribute to learning and improving future Bank operations in Regional Member Countries, and will support self-evaluation capacity building, contributing to improving the quality and coverage of future XSRs produced by the Bank’s operations departments.
As for the methodology to be used, the Synthesis Report will aggregate the results of Bank projects in line with the Bank’s framework for evaluation of private sector operations, the 2012 Guidelines for the Preparation of Expanded Supervision Reports and Expanded Supervision Report Evaluation Notes. It will focus on four evaluation dimensions: Development Outcome, Investment Performance, Bank’s Work Quality and Bank’s Additionality.
IDEV intends to validate 55 of the 70 XSRs produced during the years 2014-2019. These 55 validations are referred to as the “synthesis portfolio”, and represent approx. 79% coverage of the “reported portfolio”.
Evaluation Task Manager: Khaled Samir Hussein, Principal Evaluation Officer
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