Results, evaluation and learning

Description

All of France’s official development assistance (ODA) is aligned with aggregate indicators, but even so, results‑based management is not mainstreamed across ministries or their agencies. Moreover, the growing importance of the French Development Agency (AFD) will require it to be even more transparent and better at communicating the results it seeks and achieves. Evaluations of French aid are done by the three main providers of French aid, and are in line with DAC principles. But projects are not systematically screened for their ability to be evaluated or the quality of their support frameworks. This can make project quality assurance difficult. Nor does France invest as much as it could in strengthening the evaluation capacity of the authorities in partner countries; yet this approach would allow it to delegate more. A database and communities of practice make it easier to search for information on evaluation findings, but France has no formal mechanism for systematically disseminating evaluation results or the lessons learned.  Read more...