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DEval evaluates German Development Cooperation

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Effectiveness of German development cooperation in dealing with conflict driven migration crises

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Blended Finance in Development Cooperation: Can it deliver Impact and Returns?

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3D Seminar with Johanna Richter (DEval) and Sarah Hessel (Finance in Motion) - The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide. The seminars were initiated by Department of Development Economics at the University of Goettingen.

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Germany’s Contribution to the Forest and Climate Protection Programme REDD+

Deckblatt des englischen Berichtes "Causal Mechanisms in Program Evaluation" 2020

New Directions for Evaluation

Causal Mechanisms in Program Evaluation

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+Evidence: DEval's Corona-Blog

Economic integration into host communities in times of Covid-19

  • By Jana Kuhnt and Kirsten Schüttler

Access to the labour market plays an essential role in allowing displaced populations to sustain their livelihoods and integrate into their host communities. Long-term displacement situations and a decline in resettlement have spurred the quest for local integration (UNHCR, 2019). The majority of displaced populations are hosted by neighbouring low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the Covid-19 pandemic places additional strain on scarce resources.

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Protecting workers and firms in times of crisis: key labour market policies for low- and middle-income countries

  • By Michael Weber, Jochen Kluve and Jörg Langbein

Covid-19 has affected economies, firms and workers all over the world. What started out as a health crisis soon developed into a pandemic with severe economic and labour market impacts worldwide. Economic impacts are particularly severe in low- and middle-income countries for vulnerable groups like informal workers, women and youth, and also for small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Focelac+

The aim of the project Focelac+ is for evaluations in selected countries to make a greater contribution to accountability, transparency and learning. The project partner is the Costa Rican Ministry of Planning, Mideplan.

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Registration of Rigorous Impact Evaluations (RIE)

As part of its RIE project, DEval aims to identify and record the current state of rigorous impact evaluation in German development cooperation. We would, therefore, like to ask persons responsible for RIE in German development cooperation to register completed, ongoing or officially confirmed rigorous impact evaluations in our survey.

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In Focus

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Sustainability

With the 2030 Agenda, sustainability became the guiding principle for human development. The Agenda also provides the central framework for German development cooperation. All interventions and activities should be designed to promote sustainable development in partner countries in keeping with the 2030 Agenda. DEval has thus made sustainability one of its priority working areas.

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Private sector engagement

The private sector is becoming increasingly involved in official development cooperation. However, this trend is somewhat controversial. Critics fear that it primarily benefits corporate interests and pushes development policy goals into the background.

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Fragility and conflict

German development cooperation is increasingly taking place in fragile contexts, as more than half of its partner countries are now affected by violence, conflicts and a lack of state authority/legitimacy. As a result of these particular challenges, specific strategies are needed in order to implement development policy measures effectively and sustainably.

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Instruments and structures of development cooperation

German development cooperation has many tools at its disposal, including development loans, promotional loans, subsidies, training seminars and the deployment of experts. Tailored diversity or wasteful fragmentation?

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