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The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges for countries worldwide and had serious health and socio-economic consequences. In Germany, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provided 4.8 billion euros in funding between April 2020 and December 2021 to finance the Emergency COVID-19 Support Programme (CSP).  This programme was aimed at supporting efforts to contain and mitigate the pandemic and its socio-economic consequences in partner countries of German development cooperation. The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) conducted an evaluation of the CSP from December 2021 to March 2024 and assessed the programme's relevance, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency.  This policy brief presents key findings and recommendations from the evaluation report.

• Schnell, J., C. Römling, W. Stein, S. Disse and A.G. zu Eulenburg (2025), The BMZ Emergency Covid-19 Support Programme: Success factors and potential improvements for future crisis response programmes, DEval Policy Brief 4/2025, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.