With just seven years left to hit the Sustainable Development Goals, the work of monitoring and evaluation — making sure that we know what is and isn’t working — needs all hands on deck.
As with other areas of global development, experts in evaluation have been experimenting with ChatGPT since it launched a year ago to see if it can help with their mission.
With a growing focus on impact, “we need to start being more flexible and perhaps start using some of the innovative technologies that are out there,” explained Carmen Nonay, a director within the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group.