Joint Country Evaluation of Development Cooperation of Denmark, Sweden and the European Union with Bangladesh

This joint country-level evaluation of the development cooperation of Denmark, Sweden and the European Union over the period 2007-2013 aimed to provide accountability through an overall independent assessment of the cooperation strategy and delivery of the Evaluation Partners (EPs) in Bangladesh, and secondly to inform future decision-making through lessons learnt. Methodologically the focus has been at both strategy level and sector/thematic level, with the two informing each other. At strategy level, particular attention has been given to relevance for poverty reduction and the aid effectiveness of the EPs. At sector level, the assessment has been informed by an in-depth review of the dynamics in five key areas of cooperation - education, human rights and democratic governance, climate change and disaster management, gender equality and private sector development – as well as the study of 24 EPs supported interventions (several of them being joint) spanning these sectors. Specific methodological and analytical attention has been invested in the evaluation of DPs’ support to primary education. The evaluation broke new ground by embedding the so-called 3-steps OECD/DAC methodological approach for the evaluation of Budget Support operations within the overall country assessment. This approach has been adapted to take account of the specificities of the Bangladeshi context: evaluation of the support from two donors (EU and Sweden), to one single sub-sector (primary education), through basket fund and sector budget support, with various forms of budget support (targeted for Sweden – the ‘treasury model’ – and untargeted for the EU).


Project Details
Country BANGLADESH
Start date 2014.11.20
End date 2016.04.30
Client EC
Sector EVALUATION
Sub-sector Evaluation
Ref. ADE A459-012