ANNUAL EVALUATION REPORT 2021 OPERATIONS EVALUATION DEPARTMENT 3 IsDB Annual Evaluation- Report 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures 4 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 5 Acknowledgments 7 Foreword 8 Executive Summary 10 Chapter I: Introduction About OED 2021 Evaluation Highlights 18 20 21 Chapter II: Performance Assessment Overview Overall Performance Assessment Criteria-Based Analysis 28 30 32 33 Chapter III: Featured Topic: Real Time Evaluation Context: The Advent of COVID-19 The Strategic Preparedness and Response Program The Evaluation 38 40 41 42 Chapter IV: Lessons Learned 48 4 Chapter V: Evaluation Recommendations Recommendations from Project Evaluations Recommendations from Corporate Evaluations Follow up on the Previous Year’s Recommendations 58 61 66 67 Chapter VI: Future Outlook Expectations and Challenges Evaluation Outlook: Focused Stakeholder Engagement, Data analytics and Digitization Risks 68 70 71 ANNEX-I: 72 ANNEX-II: List of project evaluations under 2021 AWP 92 ANNEX-III: Experiences and lessons from Other Multilateral development banks 94 71 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Figure 2: Figure 3: Figure 4: Figure 5: Figure 6: Figure 7: Figure 8: Figure 9: Figure 10: Figure 11: Figure 12: Figure 13: Evaluations by Sector, Mode and Country Overall Performance Trend in Yearly Average Score Relevance Score Trend in Yearly Average Relevance Score Effectiveness Score Trend in Yearly Average Effectiveness Score Eciency Score Trend in Yearly Average Eciency Score Sustainability Score Trend in Yearly Average Sustainability Score Evaluation Criteria for RTE RTE Evaluation Methodology 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 19 20 IsDB Annual Evaluation- Report 2021 LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AER Annual Evaluation Report AfDB African Development Bank APIF Awqaf Properties Investment Fund AsDB Asian Development Bank AWP Annual Work Program BED Board of Executive Directors DAC DCC Development Assistance Committee Development Coordination Council EA Executing Agency EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ECG Evaluation Cooperation Group ECCAS Economic Community of Central African States ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States EDEPC East Delta Electricity Production Company EDN Executive Dissemination Notes ELO Enabling, Learning and Outreach ENAP Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique / National School for Public Administration EPC Engineering, Procurement, and Construction EvalMENA The Middle East and North Africa Evaluation Network G Gregorian Year GDP Gross Domestic Product GEI Global Evaluation Initiative GPS Good Practice Standards GWh Gigawatt hour H Hijra Year ICD Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector ICIEC Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit IFI International Financial Institution IIFM International Islamic Financial Market IsDB Islamic Development Bank IsDBI Islamic Development Bank Institute 5 6 ISFD Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development ITFC International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation KAAP King Abdallah King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Program for Charity Works, formerly known as the Fael Khair MC Member Country MCPS Member Country Partnership Strategy MCPS IR Member Country Partnership Strategy Implementation Review MDB Multilateral Development Bank MFIs Micro…nanceInstitutions MSC Micro…nanceSupportCenter NGO Non-Governmental Organization OCR Ordinary Capital Resources of IsDB ODEC Operations Development Effectiveness Committee OED Operations Evaluation Department OECD-DAC Organization of Economic Cooperation & Development – Development Assistance Committee P5P President’s Five-Year Program PCR Project Completion Report PPE Personal Protective Equipment PMU Project Management Unit PPER Project Performance Evaluation Report PPP Public-Private Partnership PSD Private Sector Development RBLFs Results-Based Logical Frameworks RTE Real Time Evaluation SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SME Small and Medium Enterprise SPRP Strategic Preparedness and Response Program STEER Systematic Tracking of the Execution of Evaluation Recommendations TA Technical Assistance UNDSS United Nations Department for Safety and Security UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund UNOPS UnitedNationsOceforProjectServices USD United States Dollar VOLIP Vocational Literacy Program for Poverty Reduction WHO World Health Organization IsDB Annual Evaluation- Report 2021 7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This Annual Evaluation Report 2021 of the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) was prepared by a team led by Zakaria Hana… and composed of Amin Abdullahi, Abdourahamane Dit Baffa Keita, Adamou Sanda Mayaki, Javeed Ahsan, Saeed Mohamed, Ahmed Abdelgawad and Oguz Ceylan. The report was internally peer-reviewed by Intizar Hussain.