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Evaluation Capacity Development:
the FOCEVAL case
Lima, April 2013
Background and Initial Situation
• The National Monitoring and Evaluation System exists since 1992. It has a strong and properly-developed monitoring component. Also, the institutionalization of effect/impact oriented-evaluations could provide the SINE with a much more strategic orientation
• There is great demand in public institutions to strengthen M&E systems for results-based management
• A Master’s Degree on Evaluation (UCR) and a portfolio of trainings in evaluation are in place. They are, however, insufficient
• There are very few systematic evaluations, commissioned by public institutions
FOCEVAL: Basic information
• Pilot program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on the Evaluation Capacity Development issue (ECD)
• Executed by the National Planning and Economic Policy Ministry and the GIZ, through a broad partnership with public, academic, and civil society institutions
• It is a Regional Program based in Costa Rica
• It started in July 2011, the first phase runs until June 2014
• Objective: The role played by evaluation, both in decision-making processes as well as in the conduction of public policies, is strengthened
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consejo de selección de evaluaciones
Instituciones Seleccionadas
CIFH
AES
DESPACHO
otras áreas
MRE El Salvador
MEPPD
MPEE
Enlaces SINE
STPEl Salvador
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FOCEVAL provides a comprehensive concept for the development of evaluation capacities
Butterfly Figure: GTZ, 2009. Capacity Works. The management model for sustainable development, p. 60.
(Human Resource Development) (Organizational Development)
(Network Development) (System Development in the policy field)
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Prioritized Change Projects
Institutional modernization towards evaluation
Manual for strategic evaluations
NDP design evaluation
Political support for evaluation for decision-making purposes
Promotion and awareness strategy:
e.g. high-level workshops
Extended evaluation training offer
Training of Trainers
Inhouse courses for selected institutions
Public-Academic Partnership
Technical leadership and model evaluations
Network of Evaluation (Public Sector) Enthusiasts
Pilot evaluations: Agricultural, Education, and Social sectors
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Regional platform: Concept and scope
Three elements:
Strengthen the regional exchange among governance institutions, systematize experiences and good practices
Offer M&E trainings with a regional scope in Costa Rica
Various activities in selected countries (Ecuador, El Salvador)
Lessons learned
The strengthening of evaluation capacities, nationally, is a change process that is both technical as well as political. Political support is crucial
Advance under the “learning by doing” concept; manage to actively involve the institutions that are subject to evaluations
Success factor: Public – Academic Partnership: necessary in order to reach a training and advisory offer that meets the Public Sector’s needs
Challenges: Securing the resources in the institutional budgets. What is spent in evaluation should not be viewed as a cost, but as savings (program improvement and public resources use)
Decrease the “phantom” of evaluation and install evaluation as an insturment for improvement and learning
