Impact Evaluation & Evidence

Evaluation Insights: Support to Regulatory Reform and Privatisation in Infrastructure in Jordan

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Series Evaluation Insights for Policy and Programming The evaluation finds that the SRRP in Jordan substantially strengthened key regulatory institutions and the PPP framework, but achieved only partial results on competition, pricing, and pro poor impact, mainly because of weak political backing, limited coordination, and design flaws in governance and monitoring. Overall sustainability is mixed, … Read more

PIA improves decision making for development results

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How can donors and partner countries assess the intended and unintended consequences of donor interventions? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) explores ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA), which can assist in modifying the design of interventions to improve pro-poor impacts by identifying key areas for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It can be … Read more

Evaluation Insights: Trainings on the ECOWAS Common External Tariff

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Series Evaluation Insights for Policy and Programming The report evaluates a GIZ supported training program that helped ECOWAS customs administrations and freight forwarders implement the Common External Tariff and finds the intervention largely relevant, effective and supportive of CET rollout, but constrained by weak domestication, incomplete monitoring and limited strategic engagement beyond technical customs issues. … Read more

Evaluation Insights: Micro Projects Programme II Suriname

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Series Evaluation Insights for Policy and Programming Context The Micro Projects Programme II Suriname operated between 1999 and 2005 with financing of about five million euro from the eighth European Development Fund, following an earlier government run micro projects programme considered less suited to mobilize civil society. The programme sought to address persistent poverty, social … Read more

Evaluation Insights: Guyana Training Agency

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Series Evaluation Insights for Policy and Programming Final Evaluation of the Guyana Training Agency Programme (GTA), Guyana Context The Guyana Training Agency Programme was conceived against a backdrop of national skills shortages, weak technical and vocational education and training systems, and high levels of emigration of skilled workers from Guyana. The development challenge centred on … Read more

Evaluation Insights: Caribbean University Level Programme

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Series Evaluation Insights for Policy and Programming Context The Caribbean University Level Programme CULP was a regional higher education initiative funded under the sixth and seventh European Development Funds and implemented in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and the Dominican Republic. It responded to structural development challenges in the Caribbean, including small and vulnerable island … Read more

Evaluation Insights: Micro-Enterprise Credit Scheme, Belize

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Series Evaluation Insights for Policy and Programming Context Belize is a small, highly indebted Caribbean nation where poverty has remained a persistent structural challenge. The Country Poverty Assessment of 1995/96 found that 33% of the population fell below the poverty line, with rural poverty rates reaching 42.5%. The most vulnerable groups included young people, the … Read more