Evaluation

Lux­em­bourg has also com­mis­sioned a strate­gic and prospec­tive study on the direc­tion of future coop­er­a­tion between Koso­vo and the Grand Duchy on devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion and the future posi­tion­ing of Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion in Koso­vo. The study’s objec­tive was to iden­ti­fy avenues and approach­es to feed into Luxembourg’s think­ing with a view to adjust­ing or reori­ent­ing the future strate­gic posi­tion­ing of Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion in Kosovo.

As it does every year, Lux­em­bourg has car­ried out eval­u­a­tions of NGDOs. In view of the dif­fi­cul­ty in con­duct­ing field mis­sions abroad in the con­text of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, Lux­em­bourg has car­ried out an organ­i­sa­tion­al assess­ment of six NGDOs, in response to a need for infor­ma­tion on their oper­a­tion, in par­tic­u­lar con­cern­ing their organ­i­sa­tion­al struc­ture and man­age­ment for the imple­men­ta­tion of the projects co-financed or of the frame­work agree­ments: Action Sol­i­dar­ité Tiers Monde, Coopéra­tion Nord-Sud, Nou­velle Pro Niños Pobres, Œuvre CGFP d’Aide au Développe­ment, OGBL Sol­i­dar­ité syn­di­cale and devel­op­ment assis­tance pro­grammes for Enfants du Monde. The aim of the eval­u­a­tion was to take an exter­nal look at the organ­i­sa­tion­al per­for­mance of each NGDO, put for­ward rec­om­men­da­tions enabling them to evolve and max­imise their poten­tial, and pro­vide them with a learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty and a space for dialogue.

Lux­em­bourg also launched a mid-term review of the Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­gramme (ICPIV, 2018 – 2022) between Sene­gal and the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg. The objec­tive of the review, cur­rent­ly in progress, is to pro­vide evi­dence to assess Luxembourg’s con­tri­bu­tion to the imple­men­ta­tion of Senegal’s devel­op­ment strate­gies. It focus­es not on cur­rent inter­ven­tions but on eval­u­at­ing the ICPIV as a whole and the pri­or­i­ty sec­tors men­tioned there­in. The con­clu­sions and lessons learned from the review will make it pos­si­ble to make poten­tial improve­ments to the cur­rent pro­gramme with a view to strength­en­ing its con­tri­bu­tion to com­bat­ing pover­ty, attain­ing sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and improv­ing the qual­i­ty and effec­tive­ness of Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Cooperation’s inter­ven­tions in Senegal.

In addi­tion to man­ag­ing and mon­i­tor­ing eval­u­a­tions, Lux­em­bourg focus­es on the work of eval­u­a­tion net­works. In 2021, Lux­em­bourg par­tic­i­pat­ed in the meet­ings of the OECD’s DAC Net­work on Devel­op­ment Eval­u­a­tion (EVAL­NET), the COVID-19 Glob­al Eval­u­a­tion Coali­tion and the Mul­ti­lat­er­al Organ­i­sa­tion Per­for­mance Assess­ment Net­work (MOPAN). In addi­tion, as part of MOPAN’s work, Lux­em­bourg host­ed the high-lev­el vir­tu­al round table on accel­er­at­ing the mul­ti­lat­er­al response to cli­mate change.