Our Evaluations

Many governmental and non-governmental organisations regularly evaluate the projects they implement in partner countries of the German development cooperation. In a completed meta-evaluation, DEval has analised the quality of these evaluations for selected organisations in the years 2016 to 2020.

German development cooperation has set itself the task of improving the human rights situation in its partner countries. DEval has investigated how effectively this objective is implemented and where there might be potential for improvement.

German development cooperation has set itself the task of improving the human rights situation in its partner countries. DEval has investigated how effectively this objective is implemented and where there might be potential for improvement.

Human rights are a ‘guiding principle’ and a ‘quality criterion’ of the work of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). As a basis for implementing this principle, it pursues a human rights-based approach (HRBA), which is comprehensively examined for the first time in this evaluation. The present Part 2 of this evaluation analyses the mainstreaming of human rights standards and principles in bilateral development cooperation projects and the effectiveness of these projects on human rights in partner countries.