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OECD Work on Evaluation of Aid for Trade

OECD Work on Evaluation of Aid for Trade . WTO Workshop on M&E 19 July 2010. William Hynes Development Cooperation Directorate OECD. How to Evaluate Aid for Trade. Outline Why is it important? What do we want to know? What should we expect from evaluation? What are good practices?

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OECD Work on Evaluation of Aid for Trade

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  1. OECD Work on Evaluation of Aid for Trade WTO Workshop on M&E 19 July 2010 William Hynes Development Cooperation Directorate OECD

  2. How to Evaluate Aid for Trade Outline Why is it important? What do we want to know? What should we expect from evaluation? What are good practices? Conclusions

  3. Why is evaluation important? Source: OECD/CRS

  4. What do we want to know? Othertrade-relatedneeds Trade-related adjustment Building productivecapacity Trade- relatedinfrastructure Banking & Financial Services Trade policy & regulations Business & Other Services Transport & Storage Trade development Communications Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing Energy Industry & Mining Tourism

  5. What should we expect from evaluation? Accountability What works and doesn’t work at the project, programme, product and sectoral level Sequencing of aid-for-trade interventions Improving project design and implementation Using micro-level results to demonstrate impacts at the country, regional and global level

  6. But conceptual difficulties Attribution problem The results chain The missing middle between outputs and impacts Timing of impacts Behind the border issues and flanking policies Findings not always generalisable

  7. EU results chain

  8. Good Practices OECD evaluation guidelines and quality standards Independence Collaborative Approaches “Is this information you are gathering from us just to help you write your report or can you really be helpful to us” (Prichett, 2009).

  9. Beyond the project: from micro to macro Meta-evaluations Synthetic evaluations Econometric analysis Case studies/stories

  10. Conclusions We need to get the interventions right, we need to gather the right data, adapt our evaluation practices and work together. Agencies are developing aid for trade evaluation frameworks (DfID, IADB), performance assessment frameworks (OECD) and working on impact assessment (WB, MCC). Aid for trade evaluation more amenable to qualitative approaches in the short term (Case Stories).

  11. For more information: William.hynes@oecd.org www.oecd.org/dac/aft

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