Intelligent Water Management Colombia Executive Summary
Niek de Jong, Jörg Peters, Ann-Kristin Reitmann and Maximiliane Sievert. Intelligent Water Management Colombia. Executive Summary of the Final Evaluation Report. Report commissioned by the Department of Inclusive Green Growth of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. January 2020.
Evaluation of Projects Co-financed by the Sustainable Water Fund (FDW)
The synthesis report concludes that the projects score moderate to satisfactory on the contribution to poverty alleviation and changes in sustainable growth, self-reliance, food security, safety and public health. The added value of the PPP’s is mostly positive. As for financial, institutional, ecological, technical and social sustainability particularly the projects in Ethiopia show good results. […]
Evaluation of Development-relevant Infrastructure Development Programme ORIO
The external evaluation of the ORIO programme assessed its achievements so far. Its main objectives were: to determine the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, additionality and policy coherence of the ORIO programme; to learn from the assessment of the functioning and effects of the ORIO programme and the use of resources, in order to generate relevant information […]
Evaluation of CBI Integrated Programmes 2012-2018
This external evaluation intended to reflect on and provide input for adjustment of the approach of CBI – the centre for the promotion of imports from developing countries. Its main purpose was therefore to determine a series of lessons and recommendations for the future. It covered three regional Integrated Programmes (IPs) that were implemented in […]
Evaluation of Migrant Entrepreneurship Projects
The aim of this project was the evaluation of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and sustainability of six so-called migrant entrepreneurship projects implemented in the countries of origin of diaspora living in the Netherlands. Implementation period: October 2018 – July 2019 Report: Marije Balt, Willem Cornelissen, Niek de Jong, Wim Naudé and Anja Willemsen. External Evaluation […]
Projections of supply and demand for teachers in Chile
The aim of this project was to study past trends in the labour market for teachers in Chile, to make projections of the supply of and demand for teachers in Chile for the period 2016-2025, using a forecast model with (econometrically) estimated parameters, and to give policy recommendations. Implementation period: November 2016-July 2017 Report: Niek […]
Evaluation of PUM Netherlands Senior Experts 2012-2015
The purpose of the theory-based evaluation of the Evaluation of PUM Netherlands Senior Experts 2012-2015 was to assess the: (continuous) relevance of the PUM programme, including the poverty focus as well as the relevance for the aid and trade agenda; improvement of the monitoring and evaluation function of PUM; adequacy of available management information for […]
Work in Progress – Evaluation of the ORET Programme: Investing in Public Infrastructure in Developing Countries
This evaluation assessed the extent to which the ORET programme reached its stated objectives and it accounted for ORET’s functioning in the period 2007-2012 and the (financial) resources used. It also aimed at learning lessons for other Dutch public infrastructure investment programs and private sector development policies in developing countries. The main research questionsof this […]
The gaps left behind: An evaluation of the impact of ending aid
The Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ERBS and Ecorys carried out six country studies to ascertain the impact of the ending of Dutch aid: Bolivia, Burkina Faso (English, French), Guatemala, Nicaragua, Tanzania and Zambia. Researchers of ERBS are co-authors of the studies on Bolivia and Guatemala. Reports: […]
Mid-term evaluation of the transition facility
The Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the so-called Transition Facility of the Netherlands Government had three objectives: To account for the policies pursued in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. To draw lessons from practice with the aim to improve current policies. To serve as key information for the policy evaluation of two major components of the […]