• Senior Evaluator - Team Leader

Dr Martin Noltze

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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

Climate finance;

Climate change adaptation;

Environment;

Sustainability;

Agriculture

Methodological focus

Rigoros impact evaluation;

Evidence syntheses;

Meta-evaluations;

Theory-based evaluation designs;

Geodata

Regional focus

South-East Asia

Africa

Publications

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.

Leppert, G., M. Noltze (2018), Methoden und Standards 2018: Standards für Evaluierungen des DEval, 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

Noltze, M., G. Leppert und S. Harten (2018), “Impact Assessment in Complex Evaluations”, Rural 21, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 21 - 23.

Noltze, M., Harten S. (2017), To achieve SDGs, development agencies must close knowledge gaps, Development and Cooperation, July 2017, pp. 16  – 17.

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

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Dr Martin Noltze

Senior Evaluator - Team Leader

Phone: +49 (0)228 336907-934

E-mail: martin.noltze@DEval.org

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