Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2017

In 2017, Luxembourg’s development cooperation commissioned the consultancy ARTEMIS Management S.A. to carry out the peer review of the FEVE 3 project implemented by ENDA Santé in nine countries in West Africa. This was an innovative concept applying the methodology of a peer review to civil society projects. The previous evaluations of the project had shown that the external evaluators did not always have good access to the key populations targeted by the project, nor did they have access to the data required to carry out a successful evaluation. As a result, there was no ownership of the results and no follow-up of the recommendations. Therefore, it was decided to use a peer review approach and ARTEMIS was commissioned to lead the pilot phase covering three countries, i.e. Senegal, Niger and Cabo Verde. In addition to the evaluation itself, ARTEMIS was commissioned to train the project representatives of the nine countries to a standard whereby they would be competent to carry out the evaluation themselves and in their turn train the next group of peers. This approach enables much greater access to the key populations and ensures improved ownership of the evaluation process and its results and recommendations. The pilot phase will end during the summer of 2018 and the process will continue in the six other countries in 2018-2019.