Improving Democracy and Human Rights Support

Employing state of the art guidelines in the field of evaluation of D/HR support, the report outlines criteria for the development of D/HR indicators and data collection.

Changing Mind-sets and Developing Institutions in Lao PDR - 'We can't all be ducks'

The report synthesises lessons and implications from a rare learning exercise about Sida support for institutional development (ID) in Laos. Institutions are seen as the formal and informal 'rules of the game' for social interaction - a key to poverty reduction.

Development of Institutions is Created from the Inside - Lessons Learned from Consultants’ Experiences of Supporting Formal and Informal Rules

What have we learned from the experience of supporting the development of institutions – formal and informal rules – within the framework of Swedish development cooperation?The aim of this evaluation was to identify lessons learned that could be of use to actors within development cooperation.

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Stronger Evaluation Partnerships, The Way to Keep Practice Relevant

It is a recurrent complain that contrary to policy the recipient countries do not readily assume ownership of project evaluation, but often seen them as a burden rather than as a useful tool. The changing modalities of development co-operation, with a growing share of aid transfers being channelled through multi-donor budget and sector support programmes are also a challenge to the conventional practice of evaluation. The paper

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