Dr Martin Noltze
Martin Noltze is senior evaluator and team leader at the Competence Center for Evaluation Methodologies. He has over 15 years of experience in development evaluation and has been employed at the institute since 2012. At DEval, Martin works on the advancement of evaluation methods and standards and on contributions to strengthening the (inter)national development evaluation system. Under his professional leadership, Martin is responsible for thematic evaluations of development cooperation in the areas of climate, environment and sustainability. His methodological focus lies on meta-evaluations and evidence syntheses, rigorous impact evaluations and theory-based evaluation approaches. He holds a MSc in economic geography and a PhD in agricultural economics.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Climate finance;
Climate change adaptation;
Environment;
Sustainability;
Agriculture
- Methodological focus
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Rigoros impact evaluation;
Evidence syntheses;
Meta-evaluations;
Theory-based evaluation designs;
Geodata
- Regional focus
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South-East Asia
Africa
Evaluations and Projects
- Meta-Evaluation of Efficiency
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture, Water and Environmental Protection, Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Instruments for Managing Residual Climate Risks
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Portfolio and Allocation Analysis
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Synthesis Report
- Sustainability in German Development Cooperation
- Agricultural Value Chains
- Rwandan-German Development Cooperation in the Health Sector
Publications
- Developing Countries Can Adapt to Climate Change Effectively Using Nature-Based Solutions
- Does Irrigation Strengthen Climate Resilience? A Geospatial Impact Evaluation of Interventions in Mali
- Policy Brief: Climate Change Adaptation: Supporting Partner Countries in Implementing the Paris Agreement
- Policy Brief: Klimaanpassung: Partnerländer bei der Umsetzung des Pariser Klimaabkommens unterstützen
- Policy Brief: Climate Policy: Pathways to More Effective Adaptation to the Climate Crisis
- Policy Brief: Klimapolitik: Wege zu einer wirksameren Anpassung an die Klimakrise
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation. Synthesis Report
- Evaluierung von Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel. Synthesebericht
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture, Water and Environmental Protection, Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans
- Evaluierung von Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel. Landwirtschaft, Wasser, Umweltschutz, nationale Klimabeiträge und Anpassungspläne
- Policy Brief: Mejores criterios para una mejor evaluación. La reforma de los criterios internacionales de evaluación
- Policy Brief: Better Criteria for Better Evaluation? Reforming the International Evaluation Criteria
- Policy Brief: Bessere Kriterien für bessere Evaluierungen? Die Reform der internationalen Evaluierungskriterien
- Impact assessment in complex evaluations
- Von der ergebnis- zur wirkungsorientierten Evaluation – ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz der partizipativen Evaluation von Schulen in Baden-Württemberg
- Policy Brief: Climate Change Adaptation: Is German Funding Reaching Particularly Affected Countries?
- Policy Brief: Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Erreicht die deutsche Finanzierung die besonders betroffenen Länder?
- Policy Brief: Evaluando la sostenibilidad en tiempos de la Agenda 2030
- Policy Brief: Estándares para evaluaciones del DEval
- Evaluierung von Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Portfolio- und Allokationsanalyse
- Methoden und Standards 2018: Standards für Evaluierungen des DEval
- Policy Brief: Evaluierung von Nachhaltigkeit in Zeiten der Agenda 2030
- Meta-Evaluierung von Nachhaltigkeit in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Evaluierungssynthese von Nachhaltigkeit in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Policy Brief: Evaluating Sustainability in Times of the 2030 Agenda
- Methods and Standards 2018: Standards for DEval Evaluations
- Lernen fördern. Transparenz schaffen. 5 Jahre DEval 2012 – 2017
- Landwirtschaftliche Wertschöpfungsketten
- Policy Brief: Landwirtschaftliche Wertschöpfungsketten
- Policy Brief: Chaînes de Valeur Agricoles: Moteur d'un développement économique inclusif dans l'espace rural?
- Policy Brief: Agricultural Value Chains
- Agricultural Value Chains
- 30 Jahre ruandisch-deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesundheitswesen
- Thirty Years of Rwandan-German Development Cooperation in the Health Sector
Selected publications
BenYishay, A.; Sayers, R.; Singh, K.; Goodman, S.; Walker, M.; Traore, S.; Rauschenbach, M. and Noltze, M. (2024), "Irrigation Strengthens Climate resilience: Long-term Evidence from Mali Using Satellites and Surveys, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Nummer 2, February 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae02.
Noltze, M.; Köngeter, A.; Römling, C. and D. Hoffmann (2021), “Monitoring, evaluation and learning for climate risk management”, OECD Development Co[1]operation Working Paper No 92, OECD Publishing, Paris
Noltze, M., und M. Rauschenbach (2019), "Anpassungen an den Klimawandel: Erreicht die deutsche Finanzierung die besonders betroffenen Länder?". DEval Policy Brief 01/2020. German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn. [Link]
Noltze, M. and M. Rauschenbach (2019), Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Measures. Portfolio and Allocation Analysis. German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
Euler, M., M. Noltze and I. Verspohl (2018), Evaluating Sustainability in Times of the 2030 Agenda, DEval Policy Brief 04/2018, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
Noltze, M., M. Euler and I. Verspohl (2018), Meta-evaluation of sustainability in German development cooperation, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn
Noltze, M., M. Euler and I. Verspohl (2018), Evaluation synthesis of sustainability in German development cooperation, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn
Kaplan, M., S. Brüntrup-Seidemann and M. Noltze (2016), Agricultural value chains, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
Kaplan, M., S. Brüntrup-Seidemann and M. Noltze (2016), Chaînes de valeur agricoles – moteur d’un développement économique inclusif dans l’espace rural?, DEval Policy Brief 04/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
Kaplan, M., S. Brüntrup-Seidemann and M. Noltze (2016), Agricultural value chains, DEval Policy Brief 04/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
Noltze, M., Gaisbauer, F., Schwedersky, T., Krapp, S. (2014), “Contribution analysis as an evaluation strategy in the context of a sector-wide approach: Performance-based health financing in Rwanda”, African Evaluation Journal, Jg. 2, Nr. 1, Art. #81.
Gaisbauer, F., Noltze, M, Schwedersky, T., Krapp, S. (2014), „Dreißig Jahre ruandisch-deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesundheitssektor: Herausforderungen einer komplexen Evaluierung“, Zeitschrift für Evaluation, Vol. 17, No. 2.
Schwedersky, T., Noltze, M., Gaisbauer, F. (2014), Thirty Years of Rwandan-German Cooperation in Health. Evaluation Report, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
Noltze, M., S. Schwarze and M. Qaim (2013), “Experience with the System of Rice Intensification in Timor Leste”, Rural 21, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 38-40.
Noltze, M., S. Schwarze and M. Qaim (2013), “Impacts of natural resource management technologies on agricultural yield and household income: The system of rice intensification in Timor Leste”, Ecological Economics, Vol. 85, pp. 59-68.
Noltze, M., S. Schwarze and M. Qaim (2012), “Understanding the adoption of system technologies in smallholder agriculture: the system of rice intensification (SRI) in Timor Leste”, Agricultural Systems, Vol. 108, pp. 64-73.
Noltze, M. (2012), Adoption and impacts of system technologies in smallholder agriculture - the System of Rice Intensification in Timor Leste, Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Noltze, M., S. Schwarze, and M. Qaim (2011), “Knowledge-Based Agricultural Innovations in Asia: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Timor Leste”, Pacific News, No. 35, pp. 4-9.
Noltze, M. (2008), “Backyard Living - Integrative Policies towards Migrant Workers. Housing Microfinance in Greater Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam”, Austrian Journal for South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 19-33.
Contact
Dr Martin Noltze
Phone: +49 (0)228 336907-934
E-mail: martin.noltze@DEval.org