Evaluation

It eval­u­at­ed activ­i­ties in the areas of Dig­i­tal for Devel­op­ment, research and inclu­sive and inno­v­a­tive finance, as well as sev­er­al aspects of its coop­er­a­tion with the pri­vate sector.

In accor­dance with the agree­ment between the State of the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg and SES Tech­com, an exter­nal eval­u­a­tion was car­ried out of the SATMED2.0 telemed­i­cine plat­form. The objec­tive of this mid-term review and prospec­tive eval­u­a­tion was to analyse the devel­op­ment work done to the plat­form, to iden­ti­fy and eval­u­ate pos­si­ble reori­en­ta­tions of the cur­rent project, to review the programme’s struc­ture in rela­tion to Luxembourg’s bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion pri­or­i­ty areas of inter­ven­tion, and to advise the MFA regard­ing its involve­ment in a pos­si­ble con­tin­u­a­tion of the project.

The emer​gency​.lu project was also eval­u­at­ed, in accor­dance with the con­tract signed between the State of the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg and the pri­vate part­ners SES Tech­com, HITEC Lux­em­bourg and Lux­em­bourg Air Ambu­lance. This exter­nal mid-term eval­u­a­tion cov­ered both the oblig­a­tions and activ­i­ties cov­ered by that con­tract and the imple­men­ta­tion of the rec­om­men­da­tions from the last exter­nal eval­u­a­tion of the project, dat­ing from April 2017.

The Lux­em­bourg/West-Africa Lab for High­er Edu­ca­tion Capac­i­ty Build­ing in Cyber­Se­cu­ri­ty and Emerg­ing Top­ics in ICT4Dev (LuxWays) project was also the sub­ject of a mid-term review, in accor­dance with the agree­ment between the State of the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Luxembourg 
(Uni​.lu). The pur­pose of this exter­nal eval­u­a­tion was to iden­ti­fy the nec­es­sary steps to be tak­en with a view to expand­ing and scal­ing up the project.

The exter­nal mid-term review of the Inclu­sive Finance Network’s (InFiNe) 2021 – 2026 mul­ti­an­nu­al strate­gic plan was car­ried out on the basis of the agree­ment between the State of the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg and InFiNe. The review was for­ward-look­ing, to enable InFiNe to adjust the mul­ti­an­nu­al strate­gic plan, if nec­es­sary, in an informed man­ner, and to adopt a results-based approach to max­imise the added val­ue the net­work can bring to its mem­bers, with rec­om­men­da­tions that take into account mem­bers’ needs and pri­or­i­ties. In response to a need for infor­ma­tion on the finan­cial state­ments of a Lux­em­bour­gish NGDO, the MFA car­ried out an exter­nal finan­cial audit to ver­i­fy the programme’s com­pli­ance in terms of expen­di­ture and the inter­nal con­trol system.

The eval­u­a­tions depart­ment also con­tin­ued its work in the net­works of which the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg is a mem­ber. It par­tic­i­pat­ed, for exam­ple, 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). It also organ­ised the meet­ing of the Ger­man-speak­ing Eval­u­a­tion Net­work (DACH) in Lux­em­bourg from 15 to 16 June 2023, and joint­ly organ­ised, with the Société lux­em­bour­geoise de l’Evaluation et de la prospec­tive (SOLEP — Lux­em­bourg com­pa­ny for eval­u­a­tion and fore­cast­ing) and the French-speak­ing Eval­u­a­tion Net­work, the Inter­na­tion­al Fran­coph­o­ne Eval­u­a­tion Forum (FIFE) in the Cham­ber of Com­merce from 4 to 6 July 2023.