World Bank Group │ What Have We Learned? The Evaluation Podcast
Episodes
🎧Building a Knowledge Bank: Lessons from World Bank Lending
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take for the World Bank Group to truly become a knowledge bank? In this episode of What Have We Learned? we explore findings from I...
S4E4 | Lessons on implementing the blue economy
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores lessons from the World Bank’s support to the blue economy, a widely recognized approach to shift the way we work and think in ...
S4E3 | Lessons on measuring and delivering results for women and girls
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores how monitoring and evaluation systems enable the World Bank Group to learn from its support for gender equality, assess whether ...
S4E2 | Lessons on creating more and better jobs in low-income countries
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Supporting the creation of more, better, and more inclusive jobs is critical towards achieving the goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperit...
S4E1 | Lessons on improving learning outcomes in basic education
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countries worldwide are facing a learning crisis with high levels of learning poverty - with the poorest communities being the hardest hit. What are t...
S3E7 | From geo-pixels to evaluation insights
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Geospatial analysis has the potential to provide new perspectives on major development challenges and shed new light on the impact of development inte...
S3E6 | Driving prosperity through financial inclusion
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Improving financial inclusion is linked to at least 9 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and is considered by the World Bank Group as a key ...
S3E5 | Reaching women and girls trapped in violence and conflict
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The World Bank is committed to reaching women and girls trapped in fragile, conflict-affected and violent contexts with support aimed at meaningful an...
S3E4 | Lessons on creating an enabling environment for private sector climate action
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores how countries can better engage the private sector towards addressing climate change and its impact and the role that the World ...
S3E3 | Part 2: Taxes, the social contract, and financing development
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The second episode on this series about taxes, or domestic revenue mobilization, features a conversation between IEG host Jeff Chelsky and Rusudan Kem...
S3E2 | Part 1: Taxes, the social contract, and financing development
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the first episode of this series about taxes, or domestic revenue mobilization, the World Bank’s Director for Governance Global Practice, Arturo ...
S3E1 | Comment la Banque mondiale peut s’inspirer de son engagement au Maroc pour son nouveau modèle stratégique dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Une récente évaluation menée par le Groupe indépendant d'évaluation (IEG) offre des enseignements pour orienter l'avenir de l'assistance de la Ba...
S2E6: Additionality in the private sector and the experience of the International Finance Corporation
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Additionality is the unique value that Development Finance Institutions offer to private companies in low- and middle-income countries without crowdin...
S2E5: Boosting Energy Efficiency to Power a Green Future
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boosting energy efficiency is critical for addressing climate change. This episode explores lessons on how to scale up energy efficiency efforts to fu...
S2E4: Lessons from Developing Resilient Agrifood Systems
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Agnes Kalibata, president of AGRA, explores with host, Brenda Barbour, the importance of resilient agrifood systems in promoting long-term food se...
S2E3: Lessons for Future Crises from the World Bank Group’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode unpacks lessons about factors that facilitated the World Bank Group's strong response to the pandemic and explores areas that can be stre...
S2E2: Lessons from Shifting Paradigms in Disaster Risk Reduction
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disasters caused by natural hazards increasingly threaten the lives and livelihoods of the world’s poor. In this episode, we will explore how a more...
S2E1: Lessons Unwrapped from Tackling Plastic Waste
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, the world generates 2 billion tons of trash, including 400 million tons of plastic. Most of this waste is mismanaged, piling up and flowin...
S1E6: Learning from Development Policy Financing
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Development Policy Financing (DPF) is a major instrument of multilateral development banks and has played a prominent role in the World Bank’s pande...
S1E5: Learning from Data Innovation
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Data are vital for understanding the progress and impact of strategies in global development. New technologies coupled with increased computing power ...
S1E4: Learning the Lessons of Fragility, Conflict and Violence
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More than a billion people live in areas affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. Climate change and the COVID pandemic threaten to drive that n...
S1E3: Debt Déjà Vu: Learning from Previous Waves of Debt Crises to Weather Current and Future Storms
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What have we learned from tackling previous debt crises? We discuss the conditions that steered low-income countries into the current wave of debt dis...
S1E2: Measuring Results in Global Development
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What have we learned about measuring results in international development? We are less than a decade from delivering on the Sustainable Development Go...
S1E1: Learning from the Frontlines on Adapting to Climate Change
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of people rely on natural resources for their livelihoods and well-being. What have we learned from climate adaptation efforts to preserve an...
Introduction: What Have We Learned?
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the evaluation podcast from the World Bank Group’s independent evaluation arm, IEG, where we reflect on the lessons learned from tackling...