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Session Title: Lessons From Evaluation Use at the United Kingdom National Audit Office and the World Bank Group
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Panel Session 519 to be held in McKeldon Room on Friday, November 9, 9:25 AM to 10:10 AM
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Sponsored by the Evaluation Use TIG
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| Keith MacKay,
World Bank,
kmckay@worldbank.org
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| Abstract:
This session will compare and contrast experiences related to use of evaluation findings, at the United Kingdom's National Audit Office (NAO) and the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). The comparison would follow broadly along these lines:
- clarify what is meant by learning, the appropriate institutional context (in particular, taking into account the accountability roles of both organizations), and any related prerequisites;
- identify key lessons resulting from the various approaches to learning from evaluation findings; and
- how to measure the effectiveness of using an evaluation as learning tool.
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Ensuring Learning in an Accountability Setting: Lessons from Performance Audit as a Form of Evaluation
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| Jeremy Lonsdale,
United Kingdom National Audit Office,
jeremy.lonsdale@nao.gsi.gov.uk
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This paper focuses on the role that performance auditors play in evaluating government programmes and the extent and how they contribute to learning processes. It focuses on the experience in the United Kingdom and in particular, considers:
- what is meant by 'learning' from the performance audit undertaken by the state audit body, the National Audit Office, and how it is meant to take place;
- how those carrying out the work seek to maximize and sustain the learning within government (as part of, and in parallel with, their formal roles within the accountability processes), including, for example, new forms of output and greater involvement with policy-makers and operational staff to take forward change; and
- whether there is evidence that the range of approaches taken in recent years to make audit work more -useful- for learning purposes has been effective and what more can be done to support learning in government.
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An Empirical Review of the Utilization of Evaluation Knowledge at the World Bank
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| Klaus Tilmes,
World Bank,
ktilmes@worldbank.org
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This paper looks at several initiatives from the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) designed to foster utilization of findings about what works and why, which complement the unit's accountability role. The actions reviewed hail from recent evaluation work, and center on stimulating the use of IEG knowledge by both World Bank staff and the global development community. Findings and lessons would be summarized along the following process dimensions:
- strengthening the assessment of results-oriented monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in Bank operations;
- introducing new, quick turnaround products addressing immediate needs for evaluative findings and lessons from experience;
- issuing annual 'Good Practice Awards' for operations that exemplify strong performance, to heighten their profile and recognition;
- intensifying communications and outreach efforts to build up stakeholder relationships; and
- following up on recommendations to management as part of country, sector, thematic, and corporate evaluations (Management Action Record, or MAR).
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