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Foreword by President James D. Wolfensohn -- Massege from Former President Robert S. McNamara -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1. Perspectives on the evolution of OED: 1. First experiments in Operation Evaluation : roots, hopes, and gaps / Christopher Willoughby, Successively Unit Chief, Division Chief, and Department Director for Operations Evaluation, 1970-76 -- 2. Institutionalizing the evaluation function at the World Bank, 1975-84 / Mervyn L. Weiner, First Director-General, Operations Evalution, 1975-84 -- 3. Building up the capacity and influence of evaluation in the Bank and outside, 1986-92 / Yves Rovani, Director-General, Operations Evaluation, 1986-92 -- 4. From working methods to business plan, 1984-94 / Graham Donaldson, Chief, OED Division 1, 1984-94 -- 5. Promoting professional and personal trust in OED / H. Eberhard Kp̲p, Director, Operations Evaluation Department, 1990-95 -- 6. The logic of renewal: evaluation at the World Bank, 1992-2002 / Robert Picciotto, Director-General, Operations Evaluation, 1992-2002 -- 7. OED renewal: participation, partnership, and results / Elizabeth McAllister, Director, Operations Evaluation Department, 1997-2000 -- Pt. 2. Relations with board and management: 8. Promoting a culture of accountability and learning / Pieter Stek, Former World Bank Executive Director and Chairman, Committee on Development Effectiveness -- 9. Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of OED / Shengman Zhang, World Bank Managing Director -- 10. Panel discussion: perspectives on evaluatiopn in the Bank today / Prem Garg, Director, Quality Assurance Group, World Bank; Joanne Salop, Vice President and Senior Advisor, World Bank; Jan Piercy, Former United States Executive Director, World Bank -- Pt. 3. Relations with clients and partners: 11. Evaluation capacity development / Keith Mackay, Senior Evaluation Officer, OEDPK, and Coordinator for Evaluation Capacity Development -- 12. Evolution of OED's evaluation partnerships / Osvaldo Feinstein, Manager, Partnerships and Knowledge Management , OEDPK; Rema N. Balasundaram, Evaluation Officer, OEDPK -- Pt. 4. Challenges of development evaluation: 13. The global challenge of development evaluation / Robert Picciotto, Director-General, Operations Evaluation, 1992-2002 -- 14. Broadening the constituency for evaluation / Sulley Gariba, President of the International Development Evaluation Association -- 15. Politics, aid, and development evaluation / Eduardo Weisner, Former Minister of Finance, Colombia, and Former Executive Director, World Bank -- 16.The challenges of development evaluation: some conclusions / Gregory K. Ingram, Director-General, Operations Evaluation -- Annexes: Annex A. Reflections from former and current OED staff -- Annex B. OED: the first 30 years -- Annex C. Institutional changes for independent evaluation at the World Bank: a chronology (1970-2002).