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

FINEXPO EVALUATION
Spain: Fondo de
Ayuda
al
Desarrollo
Spain : CARI
Netherlands:
ORET
target group(s); living conditions; employment;
economic growth; income distribution; geography
(development area).
Gender: equality; women’s rights; women in
employment.
Environment: sustainable development; environmental
protection; working environment.
Democracy: human rights; good governance; anti
corruption; HIV/AIDS control.
Works and supply of goods and provision of services
financed under Danish Mixed Credits must contain a
degree of know-how and technology transfer to the
contracting party.
The FAD Internationalisation ‘grants and loans for export’ has as
objective to grant financial support on concessionary basis to start
or consolidate development relevant projects in developing
countries, in the sectors education, sanitation, and electrification.
Only all countries identified by the OECD as developing countries
are eligible for this support.
CARI is an instrument for international trade; it is not specifically
development focused.
All applications for ORET were (pre-) appraised against the
development relevance. Development relevance was initially
(up to 1998) assessed in terms of
Contribution to employment in the recipient country,
determined by the number of direct temporary and
permanent jobs created; the indirect effects on
employment were assumed to be implicit in the case of
a positive economic return on the investment (the
Economic Internal Rate of Return). After 1998, this
was reformulated in “projects should have sustainable
positive effects on employment and the business
climate and the environment of development
countries” 98 .
Congruence with the development policy; Projects
should be -as much as possible- in the interests of the
poor (either as employees, consumers of the end
product, or local residents). Projects should not harm
the interests of women neither and, where possible,
enhance the position of women. The negative
formulation was chosen to attend the environmental
projects
Projects should be technically, financially and
institutionally sustainable (for the institutional
capacity, an certain assessment of the management
capacity was required)
In the regulation of 2002, the interpretation of development
relevance was amended to: “a positive contribution to a
see
98 Description ORET/MILIEV programme 1999
Final report – Appendix 8 – page 165