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- Preface
- European Year for Development
- COP21 and the Paris Agreement
- I. Luxembourg’s official development assistance in 2015
- II. Cooperation with the main partner countries
- III. Regional cooperation and cooperation with other countries
- IV. Multilateral cooperation
- V. European Union
- VI. Cooperation with non-governmental development organisations
- VII. Humanitarian action
- VIII. Programme support
- IX. Development education and awareness raising
- X. Inclusive finance
- XI. Evaluation
- XII. Report on the progress of the work of the Interministerial Committee for Development Cooperation
- Appendices
XI. Evaluation
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Evaluation
In 2015, the Ministry published its “evaluation policy”, which henceforth replaces its strategy and specifies the introduction by Luxembourg development cooperation of a systematic approach for the evaluation of its activities and the contribution of this evaluation to improving the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainable impact of its development assistance.
Applying the criterion of usefulness as defined in this policy, the “quality evaluation and control” department consulted the operational departments and responded to their needs by launching and steering six evaluations.
The Ministry grouped the NGO evaluations by geographical areas. Thus, the activities of six Luxembourgish NGOs in India and Bangladesh were evaluated by emphasising an analysis of the various Luxembourgish NGOs’ relationships with their partners in the beneficiary countries. At the end of the year, the six NGOs exchanged best practice at a workshop. In addition, the activities of three Luxembourgish NGOs in the field of disaster risk reduction in Laos were also evaluated.
Two direct payments made to NGOs in the South, ENDA Tiers Monde (Senegal) and ENDA Santé (regional project), were also evaluated. This type of evaluation, which assesses accountability as well as education, is planned systematically in the financing agreements that link the Ministry to its partners.
Apart from steering evaluations, with a view to continued learning and improvement, the Ministry organised for the first time the annual meeting of the German-speaking evaluation network, in which Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland took part. The aim of this meeting is to strengthen the individual evaluation departments through an open exchange of best practice and lessons learned from the evaluation processes.
The Ministry also contributed to funding a publication by the DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EVALNET) on the evaluation systems in OECD member states’ bilateral cooperation.
