Evaluation

In light of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, the timetable and imple­men­ta­tion of eval­u­a­tions to be car­ried out in 2020 had to be adjusted.

Two NGOs were eval­u­at­ed in the first half of 2020. The exter­nal eval­u­a­tion of inter­ven­tions by the Lux­em­bour­gish NGO Comité pour une paix juste au Proche-Ori­ent (CPJPO) on devel­op­ment edu­ca­tion and pub­lic aware­ness-rais­ing in Lux­em­bourg dur­ing 2016 to 2019 took place from Feb­ru­ary to July 2020. The eval­u­a­tion of the organ­i­sa­tion­al struc­ture of the Pales­tin­ian NGO Pales­tin­ian Agri­cul­tur­al Devel­op­ment Asso­ci­a­tion (PARC) and of the man­age­ment of the Advance Rur­al Devel­op­ment Invest­ment (ARDI) pro­gramme imple­ment­ed by it was car­ried out from Decem­ber 2019 to July 2020. The ARDI pro­gramme was also the sub­ject of a finan­cial audit car­ried out part­ly face-to-face and part­ly remote­ly by exter­nal audi­tors from Jan­u­ary to June 2020.

Lux­em­bourg also launched a joint mid-term review with LuxDev of the Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­gramme (ICP III, 2017 – 2021) between Burk­i­na Faso and the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg. Tech­ni­cal eval­u­a­tions of the two inter­ven­tions imple­ment­ed by LuxDev and one inter­ven­tion imple­ment­ed by the UNF­PA were con­duct­ed by exter­nal con­sul­tants. The con­sul­tants will also car­ry out the strate­gic review of the ICP III as a whole dur­ing the first quar­ter of 2021.

The mid-term reviews of five of the sev­en Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­grammes (ICPs) car­ried out in 2018 and 2019 were exam­ined in 2020 in order to learn the key lessons and rec­om­men­da­tions in these eval­u­a­tions and to improve mid-term review process­es, with the ulti­mate aim of opti­mis­ing the eval­u­a­tions of Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Cooperation.

The exter­nal eval­u­a­tion of the Appui au développe­ment de l’inclusion finan­cière 2018 – 2021(Sup­port for finan­cial inclu­sion 2018 – 2021) pro­gramme by the Lux­em­bour­gish NGO Appui au développe­ment autonome (ADA) was com­mis­sioned in Decem­ber 2020 and will be com­plet­ed in April 2021.

In addi­tion to man­ag­ing and mon­i­tor­ing eval­u­a­tions, Lux­em­bourg focus­es on the work of eval­u­a­tion net­works. In 2020, Lux­em­bourg par­tic­i­pat­ed in the meet­ings of the Mul­ti­lat­er­al Organ­i­sa­tion Per­for­mance Assess­ment Net­work (MOPAN), the Société lux­em­bour­geoise de l’évaluation et de la prospec­tive (SOLEP — Lux­em­bourg com­pa­ny for eval­u­a­tion and fore­cast­ing), and the OECD/DAC net­work on devel­op­ment eval­u­a­tion (EVAL­NET). Some mem­bers and part­ners of this net­work, includ­ing Lux­em­bourg, have cre­at­ed the COVID-19 Glob­al Eval­u­a­tion Coali­tion. This coali­tion has set itself the task of eval­u­at­ing the response to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and pro­vid­ing inde­pen­dent and cred­i­ble ele­ments of eval­u­a­tion, in order to take respon­si­bil­i­ty and to learn lessons.