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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

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