At the request of the Committee on Operations and Development Effectiveness(CODE) of the African Development Bank(AfDB), Independent Development Evaluation Function (IDEV) has launched a comprehensive evaluation (CEDR) of the Bank's development results over the past decade. As part of this initiative, IDEV identified a purposive sample of 14 countries including Nigeria.
Besides serving as an important building block of evidence for the CEDR, the Nigeria CSPE is also an important evaluation product in its own right, which is expected to inform future programming in Nigeria, and indeed in other countries in the region where the Bank is active with a similar program.
Specifically, this evaluation seeks:
- To provide credible evaluative evidence on the development results of the Bank's engagement in Nigeria
- To provide credible evaluative evidence on how the Bank has managed its engagement with Nigeria
- To identify the factors (both internal and external) that affect good or poor performance.
- To identify lessons and recommendations from the performance and management of the Bank's support to Nigeria to inform the design and implementation of future strategies and operations (both in Nigeria and potentially other Regional Member Countries, RMCs)
Potential audiences for this evaluation include: (a) the AfDB board, (b) AfDB staff and senior management, (c) IDEV staff, and (d) the broader development community specifically those working in Nigeria.
The Bank’s program in Nigeria is large. The program is mainly characterized by lending both to government (one third of the portfolio) and to the private sector (close to two third of the portfolio). In addition, several grants have been provided by the Bank to the public and private sector. The multinational operations account for a relatively small share of the portfolio. The evaluation will explicitly address the issue of added value, and learning from the Nigeria experience.
The final report is expected in March 2016.
The evaluation team is right now completing the approach paper. We'll share it with once it is avaliable.
- Task Manager: Khaled Samir Hussein (Principal Evaluation Officer), Email:k.samir@afdb.org, Tel:+225 20 26 33 88