Publications

Since summer 2015, the European Refugee Crisis has become one of the most prominent political topics on the continent, challenging not only individual European countries and governments but also the normative and political foundations of the European integration process. One relative broad consensus in the current debate within and between European countries is that the refugee crisis cannot be solved without improving the situation of those, who have desperately left their homes because of protracted violent conflict; no matter whether such improvement is within civil war torn countries or their neighbors. Consequently, the role of humanitarian aid and development cooperation as a way to help those fleeing from civil war has become not only a highly relevant foreign policy issue but also a core and sensitive domestic political issue throughout Europe.

• The article in Evaluation Connections

• Faust, J., H. Roxin (2016), Foreign Aid, the European Refugee Crisis and the Role of Evaluation - Beyond Micro Level Perspectives. In: Evaluation Connections, 42463.

The “diversity debit” hypothesis – that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on social, economic, and political outcomes – has been widely accepted in the literature. Indeed, with respect to public goods provision – the focus of this article – the conventional wisdom holds that a negative relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision is so well-established empirically that future research should abandon examination of whether such a relationship exists and focus instead on why it exists, that is, on the mechanisms underlying a negative relationship. This article challenges the conventional wisdom on empirical grounds. It demonstrates at the sub-national level strong evidence for a “diversity dividend” – that is, a positive relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and some measures of public goods provision, in particular welfare outcomes related to publicly provided goods and services. 

• The article in World Development

• Gisselquist, R.M., S. Leiderer und M. Niño-Zarazúa (2016) Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Evidence of a Subnational "Diversity Dividend". In: World Development, Vol. 78, 308-323.

• Polak, J. T., H. Roxin und T. Schwedersky (2016),Der Entwicklungsdienst - ein überholtes Instrument der personellen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit? DEval Policy Brief 1/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

Entwicklungshelferinnen und Entwicklungshelfer (EH) sind Fachkräfte, die für einen begrenzten Zeitraum und ohne Erwerbsabsicht im Rahmen der deutschen EZ Organisationen in Partnerländern des globalen Südens unterstützen. Die Evaluierung untersuchte, inwieweit der Einsatz des Instruments „Vermittlung von EHs“ in Partnerländern weiterhin angemessen und zeitgemäß ist.

• Zur Stellungnahme des BMZ

• Roxin, H. et al. (2015), Entwicklungshelferinnen und Entwicklungshelfer – Ein Personalinstrument der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

This article argues that a new generation of Political Conditionalities has emerged during the last decade. This requires an expansion of the original definition and research agenda. Beyond the traditional questions of use and effectiveness however, there is also a need to dig deeper into the dynamics surrounding political conditionalities, particularly the bargaining processes and outcomes along the aid chain -from domestic donor politics, donor harmonization fora, policy dialog spaces to the political economy of recipient institutional reform and donor-coping strategies- because they influence the set-up, use, follow-up, purpose, and effectiveness of PCs.

• The article in World Development

• Molenaers, N., S. Dellepiane, J. Faust (2015), Political Conditionality and Foreign Aid, World Development, Vol. 75, S. 2 – 12.

The resumption of German-Myanmar bilateral cooperation in 2012 was a unique opportunity to pay special attention to impact orientation of the German-Myanmar Programme on Sustainable Economic Development. DEval was asked by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to incorporate evaluative thinking and evaluation expertise into the overall planning process of the programme right from the beginning with the aim to create the preconditions for an impact evaluation on program level at the end of implementation.

• Deutsche Zusammenfassung (PDF, 1.24 MB)

• Amine, M., H. Steckhan and S. Silvestrini (2016), Baseline Report for the German-Myanmar Programme on Sustainable Economic Development, German Institute for Development Evaluation
  (DEval), Bonn.