Or isn't it? Do aid efforts to reduce child mortality actually work? Do projects aimed at female empowerment lead to less violence against women?

CMI and LTS International will progressively assess the results of the Initiative. The real-time evaluation shall provide timely information and rapid learning opportunities.

Norwegian aid projects have not been designed or implemented in a way that makes it possible to evaluate them, concludes a recent study of the Norwegian Aid Administration.

"CMI is a "flagship" in the diverse fleet of Norwegian research institutions," concludes the recent evaluation commissioned by the Research Council of Norway.

The Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), launched in December 2007, has pledged substantial development ...

Presentation of the evaluation of the training for peace programme.

A new report concludes that Norwegian umbrella and network organisations are effective in building capacity in the South, but are cost-inefficient and have poor systems for monitoring and evaluations. Researchers recommend a channeling of more funds to funding mechanisms for civil society in the South rather than leaning on umbrella and network organisations in Norway.

Norwegian attempts to bring the festered conflict in Sri Lanka to an end were futile. An evaluation of the Norwegian peacebuilding efforts concludes that Norway should have pulled out in 2006.

During the annual evaluation conference which was arranged by CMI in Bergen, the first Evaluationprize was announced. CMI and ITAD won the prize for an evaluation of Norwegian “Can We Demonstrate the Difference that Norwegian Aid Makes?”

Purpose of evaluation:This report is the Mozambique case study report for the evaluation of Norway’s support to strengthening women ...

Purpose of evaluation:This report evaluates Norway’s support to strengthening women and girls’ rights and gender equality through ...

The number of Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) around the world has increased dramatically over the past decades. Nevertheless, the value of ...

The Training for Peace in Africa  programme (TfP) was initiated in 1995 and has been fully funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign ...

This report presents findings, conclusions and recommendations from the Mid-term Evaluation of Swedish government funded Civil Society support ...

Malawi is one of the world's least developed countries, with a poverty rate that is consistently high compared to other countries in sub-Saharan ...

Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) are often considered a last resort against corruption and are expected to solve a problem that other institutions ...

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U4 and DFID are exploring how to use proxy indicators to better evaluate anti-corruption efforts. Development practitioners, monitoring and evaluation professionals, and researchers are invited to submit proposals.

The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the degree to which the current regulations and practices within the Norwegian Aid Administration ...

This article reviews recent Norwegian aid evaluations with a mandate to study impact, and assesses how the evaluators establish causal effects. ...