Details
- Identification
- EvalRef 2021-M-1909, Evaluation contract C-416360, Evaluated references C-385949, C-385950, C-385994, C-386359, C-387345, D-37654
- Publication date
- 30 June 2021
- Author
- Directorate-General for International Partnerships
Description
The specific objective of EU-SIRD is to promote the integrated, sustainable, climate-resilient, inclusive socio-economic development for rural and estate communities. More concrete, there are three result areas which the EU-SIRD intends to a) improve livelihoods and increase household income levels; b) improve health and nutrition (in particular for women and children below the age of five); and c) strengthen socio-economic service delivery by Local Authorities (LAs), community organisations, and private institutions.
The EU-SIRD programme needed a Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) and the MTE Team had the purpose to do a systematic and timely evaluation of the EU-SIRD programme including all five projects. As project evaluations should serve accountability, decision-making, learning and management purposes, the MTE Team put a special focus on coming up with a set of recommendations, based on findings that will allow EU-SIRD to bring the programme better on track again and to do some forward thinking on upcoming projects as well.
The Evaluation Questions are defined by the OECD-DAC and cover the ten main topics such as relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, ownership, coordination and monitoring, cross-cutting issues, EU added value and coherence of the actions. The MTE Team also developed during the Inception Phase a set of around 55 Evaluation Questions, again grouped around the ten standard questions.
The main users of this evaluation will be the EU Delegation Colombo, the implementing partners (ACTED, CARE, OXFAM, ADRA, Stitching Solidaridad), the government beneficiaries, especially the focal Ministries of the five projects, and other interested development partners. The MTE Team hopes that the findings can inform a broader audience about the activities of the EU, especially related to “improved livelihoods and increased household income levels” as well as to “improved health and nutrition (in particular for women and children below the age of five)”