The Danish Foreign Ministry has recently published the Evaluation of the Danish-Bolivia Cooperation 1994-2016.

NCG partner Louise Scheibel Smed was part of the team who, in consortium with Orbicon, assessed the specific value added of the Danish approach to supporting sustainable, rights-based development as well as providing lessons learned. NCG partner Per Kirkemann was Quality Assurer.

Overall, Danish assistance has demonstrated a relatively high degree of flexibility and ability to adapt to changing contextual circumstances and “windows of opportunity”. The major challenges in the Danish-Bolivian partnership arose in relation to the institutional support, mainly at central governmental level.

However, Danish support to the processes of decentralisation and popular participation, to education (including bilingual education) as well as to the enhancement of the rights, livelihoods and opportunities of indigenous peoples has contributed to fundamental changes in Bolivian society over the past 20 years.

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The evaluation concludes that Danida has played an instrumental role in the acceleration of the decentralisation reform process in Ghana over the past 10 years, however the area of civil society is where Danida has left the most significant mark. Danida’s support to developing the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) has also been instrumental in transforming the provider payment system, i.e. the form, scale, quality and scope of health service delivery. The support to tax reforms has been less successful and the limited results obtained may not be sustainable. In general, the enabling environment for transformative change has not been conducive and in the absence of progress on the overall policy framework for private sector development, Danida’s decision to focus on enterprise level support in its private sector programme is assessed to be then right one. 

NCG has recently been assigned to provide Inception Support for new Danida Funding to Water and Livelihoods Programme in Refugees, Host and Other Vulnerable Communities of Kenya – Support to Water Sector Trust Fund (WSTF).

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NCG has recently been assigned by SDC to evaluate the linkage of humanitarian aid and development cooperation (nexus).

The purpose of the assignment is to assess the performance of the SDC strategies, program and partnerships in linking humanitarian aid and development cooperation.

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