Summary

Findings from independent reviews of AusAID activities over the past three years

Description

The purpose of the study is inform Australia's Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness by examining what AusAID evaluations tell us about efficiency and effectiveness, and by assessing the quality and utility of the evaluation process itself.

We examined 162 evaluation reports – principally Independent Completion Reports (ICRs) and Independent Progress Reports (IPRs) – on AusAID activities completed since 2006/07, representing just over 2/3rds of registered evaluations over that period.

Quantitative assessments were made utilising quality ratings awarded at evaluation (and proxy ratings awarded under this study where these were not provided) and our own scoring of what reports told us of the significance of hypothesised key 'contributors' to aid effectiveness. The apparent significance of those 'contributors' in the activities were then cross-correlated with the ratings awarded against the principal DAC and AusAID evaluation criteria.

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