Our Evaluations

Strong health systems are the basis for enabling good health care for all. DEval examined what role German development cooperation plays in Health Systems Strengthening (HSS), and whether the German strategy meets the criteria of an integrated approach. The evaluation was completed in 2016.

For more than 60 years, German organisations have been sending development workers to the Global South. The goal of this DEval evaluation was to understand the impact of these experts and to establish which factors determine the success or failure of the assignments.

In development cooperation, direct financial transfers to partner countries’ national treasuries are often supported by what we call accompanying measures. The evaluation has looked at nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, investigating how and under what circumstances these measures make general budget support more effective. The evaluation was completed in 2015.

One of the first projects that DEval worked on after the institute was established in the summer of 2012 was the “Baseline study of DEval and its environment”. This study served as a benchmark for subsequently assessing DEval’s achievement of the objectives it set itself. In addition, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development commissioned DEval to analyse the status quo of evaluation practice in German development cooperation.