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

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