Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Monitor Sudan: fragmented and neglected IMF: US pushes for refom of voting rights Good grades for German Technical Cooperation 10th Bremen Solidarity Prize World Press Photo 2005 Wolfowitz’ difficulties at the World Bank US administration modifies development approach UN peacekeepers accused of corruption Cooperative without Borders treads new paths Afghanistan: new support and old criticism 03/2006		Good grades for GTZ projects Almost three quarters of the projects completed by GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) in 2003/2004 were rated as “successful”, while only five percent received the grade “failed”. The remainder had “limited success”. These results are from the ninth cross-section evaluation presented by the agency’s Managing Director Bernd Eisenblätter in February. Among other factors, the success of a project depends on whether it manages to influence the underlying conditions in a country, said Eisenblätter. “Technical cooperation has been a highly political matter for a long time.” Since 2003, GTZ has been using a new evaluation method, called “e-Val”, enabling the company to also focus on the perspectives of the partners and target groups. e-Val has been used in 470 projects worldwide to date. Approximately 1800 target group representatives and 2000 representatives of partner organisations have been interviewed altogether. Overall, the results confirmed GTZ’s other evaluations. Fred Brandl, head of the GTZ evaluation unit, stressed that e-Val does not claim to deliver representative results. It is just one instrument among many that provides GTZ with information. (ell)