The effectiveness of support
MISEREOR projects are designed to help enable poor people improve their living conditions and initiate processes of social and political transformation. The changes brought about by the project work must be monitored, regardless of whether they are expected or unexpected. MISEREOR therefore enables its target groups and partners to assess, evaluate and report on these project effects.
This outcome and impact assessment provides project actors with the basis on which to intervene and steer processes, and generates lessons learned that can be utilised in future projects. At the same time, it is also important that both we ourselves and our partners document outcomes and impacts for purposes of external accountability.
Effects of development cooperation
- Information document "Evaluation in the Development Cooperation Activities of MISEREOR and its Partners" (pdf, 430 KB)
MISEREOR has continued to develop and refine its evaluation procedures over several decades. The policy document describes where things stand today.
This document is available in Spanish (pdf, 390 KB) and Portuguese (pdf, 660 KB) and French (pdf, 510 KB)
- A regularly updated list of current and planned evaluations can be found here (pdf, 80 KB, document in German)
- Guide for Misereor partner organisations on commissioning external evaluations locally (pdf, 160 KB)
This document is available in French (pdf, 190 KB) Spanish (pdf, 200 KB) and Portuguese (pdf, 170 KB) Brazilian (pdf, 169 KB)
- Policy document "Assessing the effects of development coooperation"(pdf, 87 KB) MISEREOR's conception and approach
This document is available in French (pdf, 125 KB) Spanish (pdf, 110 KB) and Portuguese (pdf, 100 KB)
- Document "Results of the cross-sectoral evaluation of partnership, and
MISEREOR's conclusions"(pdf, 30 KB) The study shows that in cooperation between MISEREOR and project-implementing organisations in the South partnership is a reality – yet also has limits
Cross-section evaluation Gender projects
As part of its policy, MISEREOR releases reports of cross-sectional evaluations with the prior consent of the partner organisations concerned. Please read more about the cross-sectional evaluation of MISEREOR supported gender projects in Uganda.
Cross-section evaluation of MISEREOR supported Gender Projects in Uganda (pdf, 776 KB)
Consultants for locally commissioned evaluations in Latin America
On the Spanish and Portuguese version of this website, you have access to a database of a total of approx. 80 independent local consultants for evaluations.
Effects in development cooperation
What does MISEREOR understand by ‘effects’ in development cooperation, and how can effects, outcomes and impacts be assessed? The film seeks to explore these questions on the basis of practical examples of project work at the grassroots.
Methods of outcome and impact assessment
How can MISEREOR’s partner organisations ensure that the people with whom they work are actively involved in the monitoring and evaluation of their projects? Complementing the film on ‘effects’, this film shows and explains methods of participatory outcome and impact assessment in development projects.
