What are the Multilateral Development Effectiveness Summaries (MDES)?
The MDES provide important information about how multilaterals are performing across four key dimensions of effectiveness: managing resources, managing relationships, country/global results and building for the future. This information is organised in the form of a balanced scorecard, giving a coherent picture of how organisations are performing, and their strengths and weaknesses. While the summaries include a number of indicators relating to how multilaterals monitor and evaluate their results on the ground, they are not intended to measure actual development impact.
