Evaluation of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise

The 2003 evaluation plan of the EuropeAid Cooperation Office charged the Evaluation Unit with the evaluation of European Community Support to Private Sector Development in third countries. The evaluation was designed to improve the coherence of the Commission’s sectoral approach through an assessment of its cooperation activities in Private Sector Development (PSD) in the context of the objectives of the various national and regional cooperation and development programmes. The evaluation was carried out in two phases, (i) the Desk Phase and (ii) the Field and summary phase. The desk evaluation was based on an analysis of documents collected in Brussels and complemented by interviews with Commission officials and a questionnaire sent to sample Delegations. The evaluation’s Final Report (June 2004) presented a set of Evaluation Questions, evidence of a response to each question, a thorough analysis of this evidence and preliminary conclusions and recommendations. The tasks carried out at this stage were as follows: • Operational definition of Private Sector Development for the purposes of this evaluation; • Compilation of documentation on the policies of the EC and major international institutions, assemble and analyse the documentation on EC past interventions and EC current programming; • Prepare, on the basis of the reconstruction of the EC intervention logic, the evaluation questions allowing the team to meet the objectives of the evaluation; • Formulate the methodological approach to the evaluation questions (judgement criteria, indicators, instruments and methods for collecting analysing and interpreting the indicators). The Field and Synthesis Phase of the European Community Support for Private Sector Development in Third Countries over the period 1994-2003 was designed to complement the Documentary Evaluation completed in June 2004 (Desk Phase, A277-07). The aim was to find new information; verify working hypotheses; and test, refine and possibly complement the preliminary findings, conclusions and recommendations established during the Documentary Evaluation by carrying out a comprehensive analysis of PSD support in the field. Further, due to the key role the PSD Thematic Network can play in EC support to PSD, a survey focusing on the exchange of information and tools was carried out between headquarters and Delegations. This Field and Synthesis Phase took place between October 2004 and August 2005. The tasks carried out were as follows: • Country missions in Zambia, Vietnam, Jamaica, Mexico and Morocco. The main findings of the country missions were presented in five country reports, followed by a presentation to the Reference Group in Brussels in June 2005. • A survey of the PSD Thematic Network, presented to the Reference Group in June 2005. • Integration of data collected during the Desk Phase and Field Phase in a single framework as a basis for the final report. • The final analysis, conclusions and recommendations including the answers to the evaluation questions and an overall assessment of EC past performance regarding PSD support were presented to the Evaluation Unit on July 2005


Project Details
Country ACP COUNTRIES
Start date 2011.02.14
End date 2012.02.08
Client ACP Secretariat
Sector EVALUATION
Sub-sector Instrument/Channel
Ref. ADE A377-07