Evaluatierapport (PDF, 6.47 MB) - Buitenlandse Zaken - Belgium
Evaluatierapport (PDF, 6.47 MB) - Buitenlandse Zaken - Belgium
Evaluatierapport (PDF, 6.47 MB) - Buitenlandse Zaken - Belgium
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FINEXPO EVALUATION<br />
A - Untying ODA at stake<br />
The first step of this study, before data collection and analysis, was a literature review on<br />
the challenge of untying ODA. FINEXPO interventions are part of an international context<br />
<strong>Belgium</strong> is willing to fit in. Therefore understanding this context and its evolution is<br />
central for the relevance of the analysis.<br />
B - Construction of an evaluative design<br />
Reconstruction of the intervention rationale and logic<br />
The evaluation team reconstructed the intervention logic of FINEXPO. The team<br />
precised the objectives in terms of foreign trade and development assistance based on a<br />
document analysis and interviews.<br />
The main difficulty lied in the fact that the strategy of FINEXPO is not formally defined.<br />
There is no federal Foreign trade policy and the law of May 25 1999 on international<br />
cooperation does not apply to FINEXPO instruments, they are therefore not subjected to<br />
the sectoral concentration and thematic policy of the DGDC. Projects are not selected on<br />
the basis of a specific strategy but according to the requests formulated by the Belgian<br />
companies. Therefore the logic has been reconstructed a-posteriori through interviews<br />
with the committee.<br />
Evaluative Design<br />
The intervention logic was the reference for the construction of the evaluative design,<br />
structured as follows:<br />
15 evaluative questions (EQ) were defined. They operationally and<br />
exhaustively cover the scope and focus presented in the ToR.<br />
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For each EQ, judgment criteria were defined.<br />
Quantitative and qualitative indicators, collected during the desk and field<br />
phases informed each judgement criterion.<br />
The evaluative design is presented in appendix 3.<br />
Inventory of the portfolio<br />
The first source of information for the findings was the inventory of the portfolio based on<br />
the files available at the FINEXPO secretariat. Projects have been classified by the<br />
following criteria:<br />
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instruments,<br />
countries of intervention,<br />
the Belgian company in charge,<br />
the budget (commitment and disbursement), and<br />
the service / good provided,<br />
the date of intervention and implementation.<br />
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For each project, the team also informed, when the information was available, the<br />
following criteria: beneficiary of the project, Belgian bank involved, amount supported by<br />
FINEXPO, total budget of the project, decision period (dates of submission, committee<br />
approval and their comments on the project, ministries approval, promise, decree),<br />
envisaged period of implementation, interest rate, repayment made up to date, share of<br />
the Belgian component, availability and observations on the economic impact<br />
assessment, availability and observations on the environmental impact assessment,<br />
Final report – Appendix 2 – page 96