Evaluation Network member - Switzerland SDC

Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)
Direction du développement et de la coopération Suisse (DDC)

Evaluation & Controlling
Freiburgstrasse 130
3003 Berne

Telephone: (++4131) 325 92 77
Fax: (++4131) 325 53 12
Email: ec@deza.admin.ch
Website: Evaluation and Controlling Unit, SDC

Department background

• Switzerland's Evaluation Profile

Corporate Controlling Section and Quality Assurance and Development Effectiveness Section, SDC

SDC does not have a centralised unit devoted exclusively to evaluation. Responsibilities for evaluation are shared between the Corporate Controlling Section (CCS) and the Quality Assurance and Development Effectiveness Section.  The operational line has the responsibility of conducting decentralised evaluations.

The main focus/role of the Corporate Controlling Section, in terms of evaluation is:

• to manage centralised evaluations (in the SDC nomenclature: external evaluations or Implementation and Impact Analysis Controlling - IIAC), for example, evaluations mandated by the Directorate and conducted independently of the operational line.  These evaluations are summative in character.  The areas covered are generally overarching themes, regions or countries
• to take part in joint evaluations
• to provide backup to operational programme officer with regard to their decentralised evaluations (in the SDC nomenclature: internal evaluations or reviews) and self-evaluations, as per their request
• to represent SDC in the key national and international evaluation networks

SDC/ Seco reports available on DEReC