July 14, 2006

The IEO provides objective and independent evaluation on issues related to the IMF. The Office operates independently of IMF management and at arm's length from the IMF's Executive Board.

To learn more about evaluation in international financial institutions, please explore:

Evaluation of IMF Work (http://www.imf.org/external/np/eval/index.htm)

Evaluation Cooperation Group´s (ECG) (http://www.worldbank.org/html/oed/ecg/)

Performance Assessment Resource Center
http://www.parcinfo.org/

The World Bank Group's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) (http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/)

The World Bank Group's Evaluation Monitoring and Quality Enhancement Community (http://www.worldbank.org/evaluation/)

The United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office(www.undp.org)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Evaluation Group http://www1.oecd.org/dac/Evaluation)

The United States General Accounting Office (http://www.gao.gov/)

The Asian Development Bank's Operations Evaluation Department (OED) (http://www.adb.org/Evaluation/)