Economic & Financial Governance

The Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has conducted an evaluation of the Bank’s Program Based Operations (PBOs) for the period 2012 to 2017.

This report evaluates Bank Group assistance to Mali for the 1994-2004 period. It was prepared under very difficult conditions. The process, which began in 2002, was suspended after two missions to the country in October and December 2002 due to the poor performance of the team of consultants and relocation of the Bank. These missions resulted in the production of various thematic and sector notes. The evaluation, which resumed in 2004, was entrusted to another team to complete, update and validate the data and analyses for the preparation of an overall evaluation report. Subsequently, the report was re-organized and complemented with the new guidelines on country assistance evaluation formulated at end 2004. The time-table for finalizing this report took into account the need to draw useful lessons and recommendations for the next country strategy paper (CSP).

This report was prepared following a FISAP and PDEI performance evaluation mission to Morocco from 11–28 April 2005. It draws on the appraisal and completion reports of these programmes, as well as on (i) information available at Bank headquarters; (ii) information and documentation obtained during the mission; and (iii) discussions and interviews with Moroccan authorities, the resident representatives of the World Bank, the UNDP, and the European Union in Morocco.

The review documents from past and recent lending and non-lending activities of the Bank in the education sector and evaluate the strategies employed over the years in order to draw the lessons of experience and provide recommendations for the future interventions. The evaluation is based on a review of the available documents such as Appraisal Reports, Project Completion Reports, Country Portfolio Review Reports, Country Strategy Papers, Supervision Mission Reports and Annual Portfolio Reviews, of on-going and completed interventions in the education sector. The review takes into account the evolution of the Bank’s strategies and policies with respect to the changing emphasis on the development agenda such as crosscutting issues - governance, gender, poverty, environment, HIV/Aids, community participation and regional integration. It also takes into account the impact of policy documents introduced at different periods, and the evolving operational guidelines and procedures adopted over the years in managing the portfolio of the Bank.

Evaluation Capacity Development - ECD Initiatives of Independent Development Evaluation of the African Development Bank - By Karen Rot-Münstermann. Study on Collaborative Partner-Donor Evaluation Synthesis Workshop (Manila, 2-4 December 2014.

The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, commonly known as PTA Bank, was established in 1985 and mandated to facilitate the complementary development of the PTA member states, which was latter transformed into the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states. PTA Bank’s shareholders comprise 17 African states, one non-regional sovereign state and one institutional shareholder.1 PTA Bank is the largest sub-regional organization in Africa covering virtually all countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. Its objective is to provide project and trade finance to the private sector in the sub-region.