Overview Reports
These annual reports summarise the view of Operations Evaluation (EV) on how the Bank conducts its operations. Each report is based on the evaluations carried out during the previous 2 years maximum, and sometimes following a regional priority.
The 2005 Overview report presents the findings and recommendations of all thematic Evaluation reports edited in 2005, namely:
- Loans to Air Infrastructure projects;
- Loans to Railways projects;
- Loans for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects;
- Global loans to SMEs in the EU;
- Loans to individual projects in the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs);
- Global loans for SME financing in the MPCs.
The 2006 edition of the overview report focuses on the assessment of the Bank’s financing operations in ACP countries under the fourth Lomé Convention. This report summarises the evaluations of EIB financing through individual loans and global loans and covers a sample representing 20% of the Bank’s activities over the period in question.
The related reports are:
- Evaluation of EIB financing through individual loans under under the Lomé IV Convention
- Evaluation of EIB financing through global loans under under the Lomé IV Convention
The 2007 edition of the overview report summarises the evaluation of EIB financing operations in the Member States during the period 1997-2006. It looks at five evaluation reports published in 2006-2007:
- Evaluation of EIB financing of education and training operations;
- Evaluation of EIB financing of health projects;
- Evaluation of i2i research, development and innovation (RDI) projects;
- Evaluation of cross-border TEN projects;
- Evaluation of EIB financing of operations in Objective 1 and Objective 2 areas in Germany, Ireland and Spain (Cohesion).
The 2009 Overview Report covers EIB financing outside the European Union during the period 2000 - 2008 and summarizes the findings and recommendations made through the eight synthesis reports published over the last two years:
- Evaluation of Lending in New Member States prior to Accession
- Evaluation of EIB Financing in Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries between 2000 and 2008
- Evaluation of EIB financing in Neighbourhood and Partnership Counties between 2000 and 2008
- Evaluation of EIB financing in Asia and Latin America between 2000 and 2008
- Portfolio and Strategy Review - EIB Activities in "2007 Partner Countries" from 2000 to 2008
- Evaluation of EIB financing of water and sanitation projects outside the European Union
- Evaluation of activities under the European Financing Partners (EFP) Agreement
- Joint evaluation of projects around Manantali dam










