Development financier Finnfund has succeeded in investing more and more in the world’s poorest countries and most difficult sectors, while also maintaining its commercial viability. The most positive development impacts can be seen in the company’s investments in agriculture and forestry. This information comes from an independent assessment of the company’s activities.

The Government of Finland has had a longstanding commitment to promoting the rights and status of women and girls and supporting gender equality. In order to have knowledge and lessons on the results on the ground the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) decided to carry out an evaluation on women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality. The overarching purpose of the evaluation was to learn from good practices. The evaluation thus searched for gender changes and the mechanism contributing to these changes.

Meta-evaluation of project and programme evaluations in 2015-2017

Kehitysevaluoinnin vuosiraportti

Evaluation on Programme-base Support to Civil Society Organizations – Part 3

Developmental Evaluation of Business with Impact (BEAM) Programme

Evaluation on Programme-based Support through Finnish Civil Society Organizations – part 2

Impact evaluability assessment and meta-analysis of Finland’s support to women and girls and gender equality

Kehitysevaluoinnin vuosiraportti 2016

Meta-evaluation of Project and Programme Evaluations in 2014-2015

A study of the Private Sector Cooperation and Development Evaluation (in Finnish language)

Ulkoministeriö evaluoi kaikki ohjelmatukea saavat 22 järjestöä kolmessa osassa. Tässä ensimmäisessä eva­luoinnissa arvioitiin kuuden järjestön, Crisis Mana­gement Initiativen, Felmin, Reilu kaupan, Suomen pakolaisavun, Taksvärkin ja WWF Suomen kehitys-yhteistyöohjelmien onnistumista.

Finland’s Aid for Trade (AFT) projects in the past years have produced results and contributed to impact in specific sectors, in which Finland has competitive advantages and can bring added value, says just published evaluation report.

Evaluation of Finland’s Development Cooperation Country Strategies and Country Strategy Modality.

Tulosjohtamista pitää kehittää edelleen. Tasa-arvon edistäminen koulutuksen avulla on Suomen vahvuus. Kahdenvälinen yhteistyö on tarkoituksenmukaista ja tuottaa usein myös tuloksia – mutta tiedämmekö tarpeeksi pitkän aikavälin vaikutuksista? Nämä ovat juuri julkaistun kehitysevaluoinnin vuosiraportin 2015 keskeisiä viestejä.

Evaluation of Finland's humanitarian mine action. The first part is an analysis of documents covering Finland's humanitarian mine action in 1991–2009. The actual evaluation is presented in the second part. It deals with the support granted for humanitarian mine action in 2010–2015, and case studies of Cambodia and Angola.

The objective of the evaluation was to obtain independent and impartial information about how Finnish development cooperation has supported the rights of persons with disabilities especially in education. The evaluation also sought to find out how the rights of persons with disabilities and the human rights based approach (HRBA) have materialised in development cooperation in general.

The meta-evaluation assessed the quality of evaluation reports and their Terms of Reference (TORs), Finland’s development co-operation, and evaluation management and capacity development services of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA).

Kuluva vuosi 2015 on julistettu evaluoinnin kansainväliseksi teemavuodeksi. Evaluoinnin teemavuoden kunniaksi ulkoasiainministeriön kehitysevaluoinnin yksikkö (EVA-11) järjestää useita evaluointia ja erityisesti evaluointikulttuuria edistäviä tilaisuuksia. Samalla paneudumme evaluointitoimen kehittämiseen entistä systemaattisemmin osana kehityspolitiikan ja -yhteistyön kokonaisuutta.

Kenya is one of Finland’s long-term partner countries in development cooperation.The purpose of this evaluation is to analyse this relationship as it unfolded in 2007–2013, and to offer recommendations for its future in ways that reflect the evolution of Kenya’s and Finland’s development cooperation circumstances and policies. Findings and recommendations are based on extensive document review and interviews in both countries.

Evaluation: Finland’s Development Policy Programmes from a Results-Based Management Point of View 2003–2013. It finds that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs still lacks a comprehensive approach to Result-based Management (RBM) at the corporate level and that future policy implementation should be guided by a longterm strategic plan that is underpinned by a comprehensive Strategic Results Framework.

Meta-Evaluation of Decentralised Evaluations in 2010 and 2011.

Evaluointiraportti: Bi-Annual report 2009-2010 of Development Evaluation

Evaluation of Finland’s contribution to building inclusive peace in Nepal

A Finnish perspective on Nordic influence in multilateral organizations.

The evaluation assessed Finnish support to local governance and decentralisation. It examined the North-South Local Government Cooperation Programme (NSLGCP) of the Association of Regional and Local Authorities of Finland and 10 other programmes.

The objective of this evaluation is to assess how the Finnish Concessional Credit Scheme has contributed in 2002-2009 to poverty alleviation, achieved sustainable concrete results and also its shortcomings. Evaluation is based on project documentation; publically available documents; internal reviews and evaluations; interviews with select stakeholders and field visit to Vietnam.

The study explores links between Finnish development policy and cooperation programming with Tanzania since 2002. Key factors were identified with reference to 14 evaluation criteria.

The evaluation scores highly on most evaluation criteria, but requires a review to identify ways to address climate change adaptation in a participatory and effective way.

Finland är en av de viktiga leverantörerna av JPOs till multilaterala organisationer och den största bland de nordiska bidragsgivarna. Programmet administreras produktivt och relativt effektivt, men den långsiktiga påverkan är mindre. Som redskap för att skapa erfarna utvecklingsutövare är programmet väldigt effektivt.

This policy brief is based on an evaluation of Finland’s development cooperation with Nepal, Nicaragua and Tanzania over the last decade.

The subject of the evaluation is the training given by the Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFIN) in promotion of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Vuonna 2005 hyväksytty Pariisin julistus avun tuloksellisuudesta on merkittävä kansainvälinen sopimus ja uudistusohjelma – siihen huipentuvat usean vuosikymmenen yritykset parantaa avun laatua ja sen vaikutuksia kehitykseen. Tämä raportti on riippumaton kokonaisvaltainen evaluaatio näistä pyrkimyksistä parantaa kansainvälisen avun tuloksellisuutta, ennen kaikkea vuodesta 2005 alkaen.

This evaluation looks at the implementation of a results-based approach in Finland’s development cooperation. Results-based management uses performance information for improved decision-making. Although widely referred to in the documents of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA), there is no formal policy and strategy for working in this way.

Evaluation: Bi-annual report 2009-2010 of Development Evaluation

This evaluation examines the results and impact of Finnish aid to the energy sector from 2000 to 2009. The findings rely on a documentation review and case studies in Kenya, Vietnam, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The projects are well in line with the development agendas of Finland and its partner countries. Finland coordinates closely with other donors and partner countries to design activities in a way that facilitate harmonisation.

The evaluation of Finnish Support to Forestry and Biological Resources, as part of the wider evaluation of the Sustainability Dimension in Addressing Poverty Reduction, aims to assess the performance and outcomes in terms of contribution to the three dimensions of sustainable development.

The Preliminary Study was prepared to provide summarized information and background material for the forthcoming Evaluation of Finnish Forestry Sector Development Cooperation. It was realized as a document-based desk study.

Finnish development policy calls for a balanced approach to development cooperation, in which the three dimensions of ecology, society and economy are treated as equally important. This study assesses whether and how the implementation of this policy has enabled real progress towards its goal of sustainable poverty reduction.

The evaluation concluded that, in general, the Finnish cooperation in the water sector contributes directly to an improvement of the living conditions of targeted beneficiaries.