Assessing the Impact of FairtCentral project evaluation Digital Solutions for Sustainable Development, Rwandarade on Poverty Reduction and Economic Resilience through Rural Development

2 Apr 2024

The Rwandan Government wishes to digitalize the country’s economy and society as a means to accelerate social and economic development. The project intends to establish structures and capacities for the development and implementation of digital solutions for Rwanda and Africa related to the SDGs.

Central project evaluations conducted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), serve to support evidence-based decisions, enhance transparency and accountability, and facilitate organizational learning, structured according to standardised evaluation criteria and questions derived from OECD/DAC evaluation criteria and German bilateral cooperation criteria, encompassing dimensions such as relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, sustainability, and contributions to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and cross-cutting issues including gender, environment, conflict sensitivity, and human rights, thereby optimizing the contribution of evaluation processes and findings to these fundamental functions (GIZ, 2018).

The project is assessed on the basis of standardised evaluation criteria and questions to ensure comparability by GIZ. This is based on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria (updated 2020) for international cooperation and the evaluation criteria for German bilateral cooperation (in German): relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability.

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