South America and the Caribbean
Discover the recent and ongoing activities and projects conducted by GEI partners in South America and the Caribbean.
Costa Rican Evaluation System Support
The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) contributes to GEI; its ECD activities to date have focused on Costa Rica and the Latin American region. DEval is financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and has implemented its capacity building work in Costa Rica together with the Ministry of National Planning and Economical Politics of Costa Rica.
DEval applies a systemic ECD approach, which is based on evaluation platforms that bring together a wide range of actors (academia, public institutions, civil society organizations, and the private sector) to work in networks. Along with the evaluation platform in Costa Rica, the Costa Rican evaluation system has been strengthened and is now considered exemplary. A recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report highlights as particularly positive various components of the Costa Rican evaluation system that were developed with DEval. These include Costa Rica’s national evaluation policy, a meta-evaluation, the evaluation manual, and the use of evaluation standards, among others.
DEval’s ECD work has thus made a decisive contribution to the establishment of an exemplary national evaluation system in the region, from which high-quality evaluations are both produced and used for political decision-making.