Evaluatierapport (PDF, 6.47 MB) - Buitenlandse Zaken - Belgium

FINEXPO EVALUATION
Trade effectiveness
12.7. The project created business linkage
12.7.1. Number of maintenance contract between supplier and client
after a project
12.7.2. Number of deals between the same partners
12.7.3. Image of Belgian products/services in the sector
Sources: FINEXPO files, company survey, field mission – Methods: desk research, semistructured
interviews with suppliers and clients
12.8. Extent to which client’s capability to serve end-users has improved
Sources: company survey, field mission – Methods: semi-structured interviews with
suppliers
12.9. The project generated direct employment
12.9.1. Number of temporary (direct) employment created
Sources: company survey – Methods: semi-structured interviews with suppliers
12.10. The project has an effect on institutional capacities
12.10.1. Number of maintenance contract between supplier and client
after a project
12.10.2. Number of project designing user manuals
12.10.3. Number of training session organised by the beneficiary
companies for their personnel
12.10.4. Number of institutional management training session
organised by the beneficiary companies for the local
institutions
Sources: FINEXPO files, company survey, field mission – Methods: desk research, semistructured
interviews with suppliers, challenge technique, collection of secondary
documents
Efficiency
The analysis of efficiency relates to the services provided by FINEXPO and the
interventions financed through FINEXPO.
Question 13, efficiency of the services provided, focuses on the procedures. The
basic question of efficiency is whether the same could have been done at a lower cost or
whether more could have been done at the same cost. At the procedural level, the
evaluation tried to analyze and compare the transaction costs of each of the financial
instruments. (What is their cost? Is the duration of the selection process acceptable?
What is the ratio between management costs and expenses?). Given the scope and
limitations of this evaluation this was an approximate assessment, since time and
resources available do not allow elaborating a quantified transaction cost analysis.
Question 14 focuses on the interventions. As it is almost impossible to check whereas
the prices were adequate after the beginning of a project, the team limited its
assessment to the condition of procurements. The objective is to assess whether the
procurement mechanism limits or not the risk that a company offers its services to price
higher than the market price.
13. To what extend are the services provided by FINEXPO efficient?
13.1. The transaction costs are kept at a low level to the beneficiaries
Sources: FINEXPO files, company survey, field mission – Methods: desk research, semistructured
interviews with suppliers and clients
see
Final report – Appendix 3 – page 107