This evaluation analyses Switzerland's cooperation with the Central Asia Region (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan) as defined in the related Swiss Cooperation Strategy (CS) 2012 - 2015.
The evaluation was carried out in November 2015 by a team constituted of one external consultant, a peer of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and a peer of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
The main objectives of the cooperation strategy evaluation are to assess the relevance and coherence of the Swiss development cooperation with regard to national development priorities and the Parliamentary Dispatch on Switzerland’s International Cooperation.
The evaluation focused on four Evaluation Areas (EA): EA1 Context analysis, EA2 Relevance and appropriateness of program portfolio, EA3 Implementation of the CS and its portfolio, and EA4 Results of the CS in relation to the results at the country level.
