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OECD 1999
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Country Programme Evaluation: A State of the Art Review
Figure 2.1. Number of CPEs completed by year, 1989-1999
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 post-1994
Note: Note: “Post-1994” refers to undated studies (all World Bank CANs referred to in secondary literature: see Appendix 2.2).
Source: Source: Authors.
– Wider material about evaluation, including manuals, reviews, and DAC
guidelines.
– Literature on aid and aid impact, especially the recent literature on aid effectiveness.
In the time available, we have concentrated on CPEs and papers about CPEs.
However, a bibliography of all the material consulted is included at the end of the
chapter.
Table 2.1 presents the collection of 110 CPEs as a matrix of donor and partner
studies. The definition of what does and does not constitute a country programme
evaluation is always going to be somewhat arbitrary but can at least be transparent.
To construct Table 2.1, we have started off with a broad definition of a country programme
evaluation. While possibilities for alternative, narrower definitions of what
constitutes a country programme are mentioned in the text of the study, it was felt
more productive to begin with an inclusive rather than exclusive definition and so
open up the scope for discussion.
The borderline cases which we have classified as country programme evaluations
include:
– Evaluations of all donor activities in a given country, even when these activities
take the form of numerous, largely uncoordinated projects rather than
an integrated country programme.
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