The overall goal of the country and regional strategy evaluations is to enhance the coherence of Swiss development cooperation and humanitarian aid in regard to national development priorities or partner priorities and the Federal Council Dispatch, and to provide a basis for SDC’s management for strategic and operational steering in order to enhance development results and/or respectively improve humanitarian response in emergency situations / fragile contexts.
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objectives of the evaluation realised in the IJSL region (one of four pilots, organised by the Evaluation and Corporate Controlling Division in view of introducing a standardised procedure for peer evaluations) are (i) to assess, through a mutual learning process whether SDC with its partners is reaching the strategic objectives defined in the Regional Cooperation Strategy, and how efficient the strategic and operational steering mechanisms of the Cooperation Office are; (ii) to assess to what extent the Swiss contribution is making a significant contribution to the national development results and to humanitarian efforts, and to identify the key factors, which foster or hinder aid performance and results achievements; (iii) to identify good practices and innovative approaches, and share experiences, in managing the RS; (iv) to build the basis for defining the key parameters of subsequent Regional Strategies. This last objective was highlighted by the Program’s management, since a new process of strategic reflection will be realised in 2014, defining the new medium term orientation of the Swiss presence in the region.
