- Rural Economic Development
- Basic Education
- Higher Education
Description
The evaluation of the Commission’s co-operation with Namibia is part of the 2008 evaluation programme, approved by the External Relations and Development Commissioners. The main objectives of the evaluation, as laid out in the ToR, are: (1) to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the EC and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the Commission’s past and current cooperation relations with Namibia; (2) to identify key lessons in order to improve the current and future strategies and programmes of the Commission (emphasis added by the consultant). These objectives must be considered in the context of the overall priorities of the European Commission. The systematic and timely evaluation of its expenditure programmes is one of these priorities. As stated in the ToR, evaluations of this kind are meant to: account for the management, i.e., the use, of the allocated funds and to promote a lesson-learning culture throughout the organisation. The evaluators therefore attempted to strike an appropriate balance between a) adopting a wide enough scope that will allow a comprehensive evaluation of the EC strategy in order to fulfil the above accountability requirement and b) narrowing the scope where necessary in order to be able to produce sufficiently specific and relevant lessons that can be used by the EC and its partners to increase the results-orientation of its support.