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Supporting country evaluation systems
A view from the donor community
Megan Grace Kennedy-ChouaneOECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation
April 2011
Overview of the presentation
• Introduction to the OECD DAC EVALNET• Strengthening country systems:
– Why?– How?
• Findings from study of evaluation in development agencies
• Task team on evaluation capacity development• Some challenges
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Network on Development Evaluation
• Part of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• Made up of evaluation departments of all bilateral and seven multilateral development agencies
• Work to strengthen evaluation by facilitating joint work, developing norms and standards, managing Dev’t Evaluation Resource Centre (DEReC)
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Why does it matter to donors?
• Mandate of the Evaluation Network to support capacities• International commitments:– Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness– Accra Agenda for Action– DAC Quality Standards for Development Evaluation• Results pressure: increased demand for demonstration of
broader development results both national and international
• Conceptual: often does not make sense to look only at aid
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How are donors supporting country systems?
• Funding direct ECD activities• Harmonise, coordinate and align• Engaging in joint evaluation
(unchecked assumption: doing -> learning?)• Standards, guidance, sharing experiences
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Donor-centric, imposed from outside
Collaborative, joint evaluation
Country initiated, led, beyond aid
Study of evaluation in development agencies
• Progress on joint evaluation: 29% (18% involving partner country)
• Evaluation policies increasingly include capacity support and partner role
• Uneven spread: darlings/orphans• 78% think evaluations do not adequately meet
needs of both donors and recipients• Need to unpack idea of partner “involvement” in
evaluation
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Highest involvement as consultants or during field visits
Partner country stakeholders are involved...
Some involvement in design and management
Partner country stakeholders are involved...
Very little involvement at beginning and end of cycle
Partner country stakeholders are involved...
Challenges to discuss
• Many experiences to share (beyond evaluation)• As capacity excuse recedes, other challenges emerge in
practice.• Hard to be everything to everyone: Serious limitations around
scope, focus, relevance, timing• Putting the cart before the horse? Evaluations should flow out
of overall ownership, alignment• Fundamental problem: would strong country evaluation
systems meet donor’s needs (learning, accountability, convincing donor publics)
• Power relations: value-based exercise
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Shukran! Thank you ! Comments and suggestions welcome
[email protected]/dac/evaluation
www.oecd.org/dac/evaluationnetwork/derec