Learning from Evaluation

ADB conducts evaluation work to ensure accountability, promote learning, and maximize development effectiveness. This presentation examines how ADB can better integrate artificial intelligence in its operations. It also explores Watson, a technology that can help ADB ingest thousands of documents and unstructured data, e.g., ADB project completion reports.

The Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool Framework: An Overview

Learn about the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) framework.

TADAT provides an objective and standardized performance assessment of a country’s tax administration system. This presentation provides an update on TADAT assessments being done around the world and highlights some of the lessons learned from these completed assessments.

Gohar Tadevosyan

Ms. Tadevosyan has about 20 years of practical experience in social development field. She has joined ADB in 2014. Her role is to ensure that the urban and social sectors’ projects in East Asia Department are socially inclusive, human-centered, and sustainable. Prior to joining ADB, she worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University, Armenia. She was one of the leading specialists in the field of applied social researches and analysis. Parallel to her teaching Ms.

Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals: Philippine Initiatives for Managing for Results

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is embedded in the development plans of the Philippines. This presentation discusses the mechanisms for managing results in the implementation and monitoring of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the country. The challenges encountered in localizing the SDGs, engaging development stakeholders, and meeting evaluation capacity are also examined.

Sustainable Development Goals in Mexico and Subnational Monitoring: Experience of Jalisco

With Mexico adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a state commitment in September 2015, a political council headed by the country’s president was created the following year to integrate the actions of the main stakeholders of the agenda, and to forge a consensus on the next steps. The subnational perspective of monitoring the sustainable development goals in the country is also explained in this presentation through the case of the Development Indicators Monitoring Program in Jalisco.

David Dole

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David Dole joined ADBI in February 2016. He was previously country director at the Asian Development Bank’s Resident Mission in Armenia (2011–2015), principal evaluation specialist in the Independent Evaluation Department (2009–2011), head of the Economics Unit at the People’s Republic of China Resident Mission (2006–2009), and senior economist in the Economics Research Department (2001–2006). He has a PhD in economics and an MA in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Asian Evaluation Week 2016

This inaugural learning event, co-sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Finance Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute, and the Asian Development Bank Independent Evaluation Department, focused on the exchange and synthesis of ideas on the latest and practicable thinking on evaluation.