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Recent institutional reforms resulted in evaluation being separated from the internal audit and performance review functions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Evaluation of Development Co-operation (EVA-11) is now an independent entity attached to the office of the Under-Secretary of State for Development Policy and Co-operation. The role of the Evaluation of Development Co-operation (EVA-11) entity is to manage large or strategically significant work, such as thematic and wide programmatic evaluations and evaluations of cross-cutting issues including human rights and democracy, poverty reduction and protection of the environment. The unit operates according to a Ministry by-law on evaluation, which is currently being updated to reflect the new institutional setting. Further direction is provided by the Evaluation Guidelines: Between Past and Future (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2007) which outlines basic principles of development evaluation. The unit seeks to comply with DAC evaluation principles in the organisation and process of its development evaluations.
Decentralised evaluations are built into all project and programme plans. The unit will, on occasion, undertake evaluations which would normally be undertaken by the decentralised systems; when capacity is low, the evaluations are complex or independence and externality of the evaluators is of special value.
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The publication "Better Aid: Evaluation in Development Agencies" provides individual evaluation profiles for each member of the DAC Network on Development Evaluation.
Each profile provides information on the core elements of the evaluation function set-up and management, including the mandate of the unit, mechanisms to protect independence and ensure quality, reporting lines and distribution of evaluation reports.
Finland's Evaluation profile
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