Advancing Country-drove Development Evaluation What is the part of benefactors

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Advancing Country-drove Development Evaluation What is the part of contributors? Hans Lundgren June 2009

Overview The nation assessment setting Donor part Partnership and possession Evaluation limit advancement Ways forward

The nation setting Evaluation request identified with residential responsibility needs The assessment plan in nation will identify with the more extensive condition of administration, straightforwardness necessities, and level headed discussion (or absence of it) on the adequacy of open administration and ventures Aid to creating nations  giver part

How can contributors bolster? Enhancing benefactor coordination and harmonization, e.g. assessment arrange stock Promoting joint and accomplice drove assessment work Supporting assessment limit improvement and give motivations to assessment Aligning with accomplice assessment arranges/needs and utilizing nation frameworks Sharing knowledge, direction and standards

Promoting or undermining possession? Proposed and unintended results of assessment practice and procedures Meeting needs of both accomplices and givers – not generally achievable but rather conceivable more regularly than thought Partnership must move past inactive cooperation  o wnership of assessment motivation, plan, prepare Why are there not more accomplice driven assessments of benefactor projects? Responsibility asymmetry.

What is assessment limit? Assessment Capacity Development (ECD): unleashing, reinforcing and keeping up assessment limit. Assessment framework : from setting the plan to specialized aptitudes, interest for assessment, outline, input and learning, and so on 3 Levels of limit:

Resources Fact discovering study on ECD (DAC/Japan, 2006) Member and accomplice nation encounters Work by MDBs and UN, considers by IEG IOCE production "Making and Developing Evaluation Organisations" DAC's Good Practice record on Capacity Development (2006) UNICEF et al, "Nation drove observing and assessment frameworks" (2008) Evaluation instruments, standards & guidelines

Key rising lessons An assessment framework needs to meet a nation's own particular learning and responsibility needs. Benefactors can bolster, not send out : limit advancement forms must be nation driven and custom-made .

Lessons (proceeded with) Build limit by doing joint assessment work that meets accomplice (and also benefactor) learning and responsibility needs. Address free market activity for assessment (i.e. use by arrangement creators) to guarantee assessments are utilized

How would we advance? Change the way assessments are arranged and executed – applying the Paris Declaration motivation to assessment Explicitly consider the assessment limit measurement amid the assessment procedure Link with accomplices and discover chances to team up in joint and accomplice drove work Direct and setting particular assessment limit advancement bolster Share encounters in community oriented systems

Your remarks and proposals are welcome! Hans.Lundgren@OECD.org www.oecd.org/DAC/EvaluationNetwork