Evaluation in AusAID

Julie Elliott, Performance, Effectiveness and Quality Manager, Philippines and Burma Section

Julie.Elliott@ausaid.gov.au

How AusAID assesses performance

Four Yearly Aid Review

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee Peer Review

Australian National Audit Office

Office of Development Effectiveness

Internal quality reporting system

Internal quality reporting system

Three Purposes

• Management

• Learning

• Accountability

7 Principles

• Clear Objectives

• Transparency

• Contestability and Sound Evidence

• Aid effectiveness

• Mix of Independent and Self Assessment

• Efficiency

• Aid Effectiveness

AusAID Performance Management and Evaluation Policy

Three types of reporting processes

Annual Performance Reports

Quality Reporting System

Evaluations

Evaluation and reporting of the Philippines Program

Development Cooperation Reports (2007, 2008 & 2009) are available on the AusAID website

2007-11 Development Cooperation Report describes AusAID contribution, including in:

•Education

•Strengthening women to resolve conflict in Mindanao

•Rollback malaria

•Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Some evaluations currently underway

• Hazards Mapping and Assessment for Effective Community Based Disaster Risk Management (READY Project)

• Philippines Response to Indigenous Peoples and Muslim Education (PRIME)

• AusAID World Bank Philippines Development Trust Fund

• Another Mindanao is Possible project

Directions for reform

Across AUSAID: Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness (2011) recommendations to improve the evaluation system

• Fewer but higher quality independent evaluations

• Publication

• Overseen by an Independent Evaluation Committee

Philippines Program

• Joint strategic reviews with the Government of the Philippines

• Partnerships with other donors (e.g. joint review missions)

• Strategic upstream performance management at the delivery strategy level