What does it mean to have a sector wide plan for capacity development? And what does it take to make it? These were the key themes of a five day learning event for government and development partners from the education sector in...
Why evaluators should embrace the use of geospatial data during Covid-19 (Coronavirus) and beyond - IEG - Hiroyuki Yokoi, Jos Vaessen & Joachim Vandercasteelen (Main Author) Geospatial data encompass all information that is...
When development partners met in Busan, South Korea in 2011, one of their aims was to make aid more effective. The event launched the Global Partnership for Effective Development and Cooperation, underpinned by the principles of...
Yes, another uplifting article about how we must do more on gender! Well, not quite. To be honest, this is more of a lengthy introduction to some preliminary findings from a 2015 survey (mentioned on this site here) of DEVCO/EEAS...
“Sustainable development policies cannot be fully achieved without youth angles, perspectives and voices,” said Sana Afouaiz, a women’s advocate and blogger from Morocco. She believes that young people today should have the...
The Evaluation Unit of DEVCO steers the Evaluation function for EU cooperation services and manages strategic evaluations. These strategic evaluations are complex evaluations conducted at country, region or sector level. In 2014...
The European Union (EU) is the largest and most reliable donor to Palestine. Yet many people lack a deep understanding of the context in which the EU’s cooperation with Palestine operates and of the cooperation itself. As the...
Corruption ranges from bribery to collusion to straightforward theft, but as envelopes of cash evolve into more sophisticated mechanisms, efforts to prevent corruption and build transparency must keep up. “We see new forms of...
EuropeAid has developed a new Technical Cooperation Quality Assessment Grid, which must be used by its task managers to self-assess quality of TC. This gives a clear signal that focus on quality has moved up a gear as the European...
The World Bank has a question; how can it improve its Science of Delivery? The Science of Delivery means "to learn better and adapt more quickly when things work well or when they don't work well and take some of the lessons of...