Dr Sven Harten
Evaluation-Expert and Political Scientist, PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Evaluation expert with more than 20 years experience in design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation; Sven Harten has lived and worked for 15 years in countries of the Global South, where he was mainly active as an evaluator and project manager, with M&E missions in more than 50 countries; Full-time employment as an employee at the World Bank, the European Commission, among others, as well as an independent consultant.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Evaluation approaches (theory-based / realist / rigorous impact evaluations)
Climate change (adaptation and mitigation)
Financial cooperation (blended finance, micro/SME finance, digital financial services)
Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD)
Instruments and structures of multilateral and international development cooperation (World Bank, European Commission)
Implementation of development projects in rural areas
Establishment of monitoring systems - Methodological focus
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Quantitative and qualitative methods of empirical social research and evaluation
RCTs
Geodata incl. Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Big data / Textmining
Evaluations and Projects
- Text Mining
- Focelac+
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture, Water and Environmental Protection, Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Instruments for Managing Residual Climate Risks
- Blended Finance: Further development of methods and standards
- Method Integration in Complex Evaluations
- Structured Funds in Development Cooperation
- The Forest and Climate Protection Programme REDD+
- Focelac
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Portfolio and Allocation Analysis
- Evaluation of Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: Synthesis Report
- German Development Cooperation in Fragile Contexts
- Environment and Rural Development in the Philippines
Publications
- Policy Brief: El árbol de decisiones según geodatos: Utilizando datos geográficos para evaluaciones
- 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
- Grounding Evaluation Capacity Development in Systems Theory
- Evaluating Blended Finance Instruments and Mechanisms: Approaches and Methods
- 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
- The State of the Evidence on Blended Finance for Sustainable Development
- Evidence Gap and Intervention Heat Maps of Climate Change Adaptation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Die deutsche EZ braucht mehr Wirkungsorientierung
- Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Impact assessment in complex evaluations
- RCTs and rural development – an abundance of opportunities
- A Proof-of-Concept of Integrating Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, and Survey Data in Evaluations. The Measurement of Disaster Resilience in the Philippines
- Improving International Development Evaluation through Geospatial Data and Analysis
- Policy Brief: Wirkungen in der ländlichen Entwicklung - Landnutzungsplanung auf den Philippinen
- Meta-Evaluierung von Nachhaltigkeit in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Evaluierungssynthese von Nachhaltigkeit in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Selected publications
Cull, R., X. Gine, S. Harten, S. Heitmann, A. B. Rusu (2018), "Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector: Evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo", World Development, Vol. 18, No.107, S. 54 – 74.
Innovative ways of promoting household savings. Evidence from a randomized control trial in Senegal. Cull, R. Gine, X., Harten, S. and Buri, S.; World Bank Working Papers Series (2015, forthcoming)
Increasing financial inclusion through agent banking? A regression analysis of the characteristics of successful agents. Cull, R. Gine, X., Harten, S. and Rusu, A.; World Bank Working Papers Series (2015, forthcoming)
Benchmarking the Financial Performance, Growth, and Outreach of Greenfield Microfinance Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cull, R.; Harten, S.; Nishida, I. and Bull, G.; World Bank Working Papers Series (2014); also forthcoming in Emerging Markets Review (2015)
Evaluation of IFC’s Africa Credit Bureau Program. Harten, S. and Metha, S.; Report published by SECO (2015 forthcoming)
Greenfield microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cull, R.; Harten, S.; and Bull, G.; Interest Bearing Notes, Vol.18 No.1 (2015)
Greenfield microfinance – a business model for advancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa? Cull, R.; Harten, S.; and Bull, G; in SME Finance Forum, 02/2015 (http://smefinanceforum.org/post/greenfield-microfinance-%E2%80%93-a-business-model-for-advancing-financial-inclusion-in-sub-saharan-afr)
How to make M&E more effective for learning? Lessons from IFC’s experience in Africa. Paper presented at CGAP Smart Aid Conference, Paris 28-29.01 2014
Implementation of Market Level Measurement frameworks – Lessons from IFC’s experience in Africa. Presented at CGAP Conference, Paris 18-19.06 2015
The Rise of Evo Morales and the MAS. ZED Books (2011). ISBN-13: 978-1848135246
Towards a "Traditional Party"? Internal Organisation and Change in the MAS in Bolivia. In: Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: The First Term in Context, 2005-2009. Institute for the Study of the Americas (2011). ISBN-13: 978-1900039994
The MAS Party in Bolivia: A challenge to theories of political parties? Paper presented at Institute for the Study of the Americas’ (University of London) Bolivia Information Forum Conference, 20 Novermber 2009
Translating the demand of “global justice” into local practice. Paper presented at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) conference, Helsinki, 7-12.6.2007
Hacia un partido “tradicional”? Un análisis del cambio organizativo interno en el Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) en Bolivia. Paper presented at Consejo Europeo de Investigación Scientífica sobre America Latina (CEISAL) conference, Brussels, 11-14.4.2007; also available at: Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Coloquios, 2007, nuevomundo.revues.org//index4468.html
‘The convergence of social movements: hope for democracy?’, Bolivian Studies Journal, Nr.13, 2006
Contact
Dr Sven Harten
Phone: +49 (0)228 336907-950
E-mail: sven.harten@DEval.org