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During the past decade many donor countries have changed the way they work, shifting from development assistance in the form of financing specific development projects, to contributing directly to partner countries’ budgets. Such budget support can be at the sector level or at the level of the general government budget.
As sector and general budget support is increasing in monetary terms there is also increased interest from various stakeholders in assessing the effectiveness of budget support.
Members of the Evaluation Network finalised a major joint evaluation of general budget support in 2006. It was commissioned by a consortium of donor agencies and seven partner Governments under the auspices of the DAC Network on Development Evaluation. This evaluation examined to what extent, and under what circumstances, Partnership General Budget Support (PGBS) is relevant, efficient and effective for achieving sustainable impacts on poverty reduction and growth.This evaluation mainly addressed the process and did not focus enough on the chain of results of budget support.
Some members are currently working on a methodology to evaluate budget support operations at country level.
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