Description: Learning and Results in World Bank Operations : How the Bank Learns, Evaluation 1

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Learning and Results in World Bank Operations : How the Bank Learns, Evaluation 1

Knowledge, learning, and innovation are one of eight objectives that will be monitored in the Bank's new strategy. The independent evaluation group (IEG) is conducting a program of learning and results evaluations to promote a better understan...

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Main Author:	Independent Evaluation Group
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY ACHIEVEMENT ACTION REVIEW ADB ATTENTION ATTRIBUTION BEHAVIORS BEST PRACTICES BOARDING BOUNDARIES BUDGET CONSTRAINTS BUSINESS PROCESSES CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR CHANGE PROCESS COLLABORATION COLLABORATIVE WORK COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE COMPETENCE COMPETITIVE EDGE COMPLETION REPORTS CORE COMPETENCIES CULTURAL CHANGE CURRICULUM DECENTRALIZATION DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS DISCUSSIONS DOCUMENTS EFFECTIVE LEARNING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE EXPERIMENTATION EXPLORATION EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOCUS GROUPS GENDER GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE GOOD PRACTICE GROUP LEARNING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES IDEAS INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE INFORMAL KNOWLEDGE INFORMAL LEARNING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INNOVATIONS INTEGRATION INTRANET KNOWLEDGE ACCESS KNOWLEDGE FLOW KNOWLEDGE FLOWS KNOWLEDGE FOR DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE PLATFORMS KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY KNOWLEDGE SHARING KNOWLEDGE STRATEGY LEADING LEARNING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING ORGANIZATION LEARNING PROCESSES LEARNING QUALITY LENDING OPERATIONS LOGIC MANAGEMENT TOOL MENTORING NETWORK ANALYSIS OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OPERATIONAL RISK ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORK ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE PEER REVIEW PERCEPTION PORTALS PROGRAMS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY OF LEARNING READING RECOGNITION REORGANIZATION RESEARCH METHODS ROLE MODELING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL NETWORKS SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE SPEECH SUBSIDIARY TACIT KNOWLEDGE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THINKING TRAINING COURSES TRANSPORT TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE URBAN DEVELOPMENT USE OF KNOWLEDGE WORK PROCESSES WORKPLACE YOUTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19798619/learning-results-world-bank-operations-bank-learns-evaluation-one http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19982

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Summary:	Knowledge, learning, and innovation are one of eight objectives that will be monitored in the Bank's new strategy. The independent evaluation group (IEG) is conducting a program of learning and results evaluations to promote a better understanding of how the World Bank acquires, captures, and transfers knowledge and learning in its lending operations, and what scope there is for improving. The objective of the program is to delineate attributes of effective learning in World Bank lending. These attributes refer to learning into lending (inputs into project design); learning while lending (feedback and modifications of design and implementation while the project is underway); and learning from lending (lessons from the project that were transmitted to other projects). The evaluation program will assess how the Bank can become better at generating, accessing, and using learning and knowledge in its lending operations. It acknowledges the importance of the feedback from knowledge to learning and from learning back to enhanced knowledge. The report is organized as follows: chapter one gives approach and context. Chapter two explores two essential aspects of learning - knowledge exploitation and knowledge exploration and the factors influencing them. Chapter three examines the contribution of mentoring. Chapter four addresses the extent to which incentives, leadership, and culture are aligned to promote learning in lending. Chapter five considers the implications of the report's findings, for the Bank's change process, for IEG, and for the design of the second evaluation in IEG's learning and results series.