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dc.titleIDB Group Project Performance: The 2025 Validation Cycle
dc.contributor.authorInfanzón, Michelle
dc.contributor.authorBriceño, Bertha
dc.contributor.authorGotz, Gunnar
dc.contributor.authorLaakso, Aarre
dc.contributor.authorMarneau Acevedo, Ari Rene
dc.contributor.authorPerez Ramirez, Anali
dc.contributor.authorRubio Jaramillo, Nicole Mishel
dc.contributor.authorSembler, Jose Ignacio
dc.contributor.authorVaessen, Jozef Leonardus
dc.contributor.authorMotta, Marialisa
dc.contributor.authorRodrigo, Maria Fernanda
dc.contributor.authorKoeberle, Stefan Georg
dc.contributor.authorGonzález, Jorge
dc.contributor.orgunitOffice of Evaluation and Oversight
dc.date.available2026-07-31T00:07:00
dc.date.issue2025-11-30T00:11:00
dc.description.abstractThis report summarizes the 2025 results of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight's (OVE's) annual review of project performance at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group. Every year, IDB Group Management prepares self-evaluations on the results of its operations: Project Completion Reports (PCRs) at the IDB and Expanded Supervision Reports (XSRs) at IDB Invest. PCRs and XSRs are then validated by OVE to ensure that they are substantiated by evidence and are prepared in accordance with their respective guidelines. Self-evaluations and validations are intended to serve as accountability and learning tools. The IDB Group's project evaluation methodology (for both management self-assessment and OVEs validation) is objectives-based, which means that project performance is assessed against the objectives that the projects intended to achieve as defined in their design documents. Management and OVE assess overall project (outcome) performance based on four core criteria: (i) relevance of the project's goals and design, (ii) effectiveness or the degree to which the project achieved the specific objectives for which it was approved, (iii) efficiency with which the objectives were achieved, and (iv) sustainability of the results achieved. Projects' overall outcome ratings are calculated as a weighted average of the four core criteria ratings, where effectiveness has the highest weight (40%, versus 20% for the other three criteria). The weights for policy-based lending (PBLs) are: 60% for effectiveness and 20% for relevance and sustainability (efficiency is not assessed for PBLs). In addition, both Management and OVE rate two non-core criteria for IDB operations (Bank performance and borrower performance) and three non-core criteria for IDB Invest operations (additionality, investment profitability, and work quality). Non-core criteria do not count toward the overall project's outcome ratings. Finally, OVE also rates the quality of the self-evaluation reports by Management. The overall outcome is rated on a six-point scale, while core criteria, non-core criteria, and PCR and XSR quality are rated on a four-point scale. For simplicity, this report groups ratings into “positive” and “negative,” where positive corresponds to the top half ratings in the scale, and negative to the bottom half.
dc.format.extent59
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0014437
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/IDB-Group-Project-Performance-The-2025-Validation-Cycle.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Desempeno-de-los-Proyectos-del-Grupo-BID-Ciclo-de-Validacion-2025.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectProject Completion Report
dc.subjectMonitoring and Evaluation
dc.subjectCorporate Evaluation
dc.subject.jelcodeH83 - Public Administration • Public Sector Accounting and Audits
dc.subject.keywordsPCR;XSR;Expanded Supervision Report
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-TN-03372
idb.operationBK-V0066
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