Dr Sven Harten
Political Scientist, PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Evaluation expert with more than 15 years experience in design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation; More than 10 years professional experience managing projects and programs in developing countries as well as managing evaluations, including M&E Missions to more than 50 countries; Worked at/for World bank Group, European Commission, Change Management & Evaluation Consultancy firms and as independent consultant.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Design, Management, and Implementation of Evaluations, e.g. Randomised Controlled Trials
Design and Implementation of Monitoring Systems
Instruments and Structures of Multilateral and International Development Cooperation (World Bank Group, European Commission)
Implementation of Development Projects (e.g. in Microfinance, Digital Financial Services, rural development)
Trainings and capacity building on M&E
- Methodological focus
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Quantitative and qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods
Evaluations and Projects
- Text Mining
- Focelac+
- Evaluation of Adaptation Interventions in Agriculture, Water and Coastal Protection
- Evaluation of Interventions for Dealing with 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
- Portfolio and Allocation Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions
- German Development Cooperation in Fragile Contexts
- Environment and Rural Development in the Philippines
Publications
- 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
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Dr Sven Harten
Phone: +49 (0)228 336907-950
E-mail: sven.harten@DEval.org