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Criteria for the identification and selection of priority areas ................................................ 195<br />
Criteria for the priority area strategies in BMZ........................................................................ 197<br />
<strong>Country</strong> concepts and the monitoring and strategic controlling responsibility<br />
of the BMZ........................................................................................................................... 198<br />
The monitoring and strategic control function of the country concepts .............................. 199<br />
The evaluation function of the country concepts.................................................................... 201<br />
The relationship between country programme evaluations and project evaluations....... 205<br />
Final remarks ............................................................................................................................... 205<br />
Chapter 9. The Anatomy of <strong>Country</strong> Assistance Evaluation: Case Study<br />
of the OED Philippines CAR<br />
by Gianni Zanini Operation Evaluation Department, World Bank ..................................................... 207<br />
Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 207<br />
Evaluation goals .......................................................................................................................... 208<br />
CAR team composition............................................................................................................... 209<br />
Budget .......................................................................................................................................... 210<br />
Work processes............................................................................................................................ 210<br />
Methodological challenges ........................................................................................................ 211<br />
Production timetable.................................................................................................................. 212<br />
Impact........................................................................................................................................... 212<br />
Lessons learned .......................................................................................................................... 213<br />
Philippines CAR – original guidelines for sectoral contributions ......................................... 213<br />
Chapter 10. <strong>Country</strong> Programme Planning and <strong>Country</strong> Programme Evaluation (CPE)<br />
within the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)<br />
by Edita Vokral, Swiss Agency for Development Co-operation (SDC), Bern........................................ 215<br />
Executive summary..................................................................................................................... 215<br />
Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 216<br />
Purpose and functions of the country programme within SDC ............................................. 217<br />
SDC’s practice of country programme evaluation and planning........................................... 217<br />
Participation of other donor agencies, the partner government, the civil society<br />
and beneficiaries................................................................................................................ 222<br />
Linkage with strategic documents (S-21) ................................................................................. 223<br />
Chapter 11. Real Progress: Fifty Years of USAID in Costa Rica<br />
by James W. Fox, Center for Development Information and Evaluation US Agency for International<br />
Development (USAID)..................................................................................................................... 231<br />
Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 231<br />
Why foreign aid to Costa Rica? .................................................................................................. 232<br />
Costa Rican development 1945-95 ........................................................................................... 236<br />
Costa Rica in 1945-50 .................................................................................................................. 237<br />
Validity of the development concepts..................................................................................... 245<br />
Which activities produced results?........................................................................................... 257<br />
Lessons learned .......................................................................................................................... 268<br />
The bottom line: was it worth it?............................................................................................... 270<br />
<strong>OECD</strong> 1999<br />
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