The International Monetary Fund is the most influential financial institution in the World. For years he prescribed structural adjustment programs for overly indebted and poor countries to accelerate their economic growth. In 1999 the IMF announced a change with its new lending program "Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility“ (PRGF) and promised to make its lending pro poor. The conference will have a special focus on women and gender-policies of the Bretton Woods Institutions and ask whether the new policy really help achieve more growth and less poverty? How did the IMF Independent Evaluation Office assess the IMF lending programs in its latest survey?