Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient of development. A number of multilateral and bilateral agencies were established around this time to implement various types of aid programmes; however, their effectiveness is...

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and what does not and in this discussion draws attention to the fact that even a simple assessment requires more than providing a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive...

This evaluation report covers CARDS assistance to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, with a special focus on the Economic Development, Local and Municipal Development and Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) sectors for the period 2000-2006. The interventions concerned the support to...

This evaluation aims to provide an overall independent assessment of the European Union’s cooperation and partnership relations with the Pacific region over 2006-2012. On the basis of this assessment, it provides recommendations to improve the EU’s current and future strategies, programmes...

Les principaux objectifs de l’évaluation sont de: rendre des comptes et fournir aux services de l'Union européenne (UE) ainsi qu'à un public plus large une évaluation indépendante et globale de ses relations de coopération et de partenariat passées et présentes avec le Gouvernement...

L’Allemagne, la Belgique, la Commission Européenne, la France, les Pays-Bas, le Royaume-Uni et la Suède se sont associés pour mener une évaluation conjointe de leur coopération avec le Burundi sur la période 2005-2011. L’évaluation conjointe analyse les résultats d'efforts conjugués...

The main evaluation objective is to assess to what extent EU Budget Support (BS) operations in South Africa (SA) contributed to achieving sustainable results in the relevant sectors over the period 2000-2011. The evaluation covers 16 Sector Budget Support (SBS) operations, for an amount of...

This report presents the final evaluation, commissioned by DEVCO/B2 and implemented between December 2012 and April 2013, of the Thematic Programme "Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development" (NSA- LA) 2007-2013. The sum of €1,571,075,501.66 was allocated in Annual Action...