Mariana Branco is an Economist and Evaluator at The World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Besides conducting evaluation, Mariana is supporting The CLEAR Initiative, IPDET, and a new Global partnership evaluation capacity development. Mariana has been a member of several M&E associations, including EES and EvalYouth. Before IEG, she had her own consultancy focused on value for money and impact analysis and was a volunteer on poverty alleviation and refugee issues.