Evaluation of Support to Renewable Energy, Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency in India (2021)

The overall objective of this assignment was to conduct the Impact Evaluation of the programme ‘Support to Renewable Energy, Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency in India (the Programme)’. 
This impact evaluation provides an independent assessment of the use of resources along with the outputs and results delivered during implementation of the five (5) constituent projects of the Programme. 

The EU signed the Financing Agreement (FA) for the "Support to Renewable Energy, Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency in India" programme with the Government of India in December 2010. The programme has three main elements: first, policy improvements, training and capacity building for central, state and local government officials; second, exchange of best practices with the EU; third pilot projects in renewable energy (RE), energy efficiency (EE) and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation across India. 

This evaluation is based on the 5 standard evaluation criteria introduced by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

These are supplemented by 2 further specific EU evaluation criteria: EU Added Value – 6. EU versus EU Member State or Private Sector’s Added Value and Coherence with EU Strategy – 7. EU Alignment
For each of these evaluation criteria, as stipulated in this Impact Evaluation’s ToR, evaluation questions (EGs) were formulated, totalling 12 EQs.