Sida uses these evaluations as a tool for decision making and learning. All evaluations are published, giving the general public in Sweden an insight into Sweden’s development cooperation and providing them with the opportunity to hold Sida responsible for the results of its work.
Evaluating Sweden’s development assistance is performed on three levels:
- Each department and team at Sida evaluates its development assistance efforts within its own area of responsibility.
- The Secretariat for Evaluation has a broader and greater responsibility, focusing on assuring the quality of the evaluations and performing more thematic and strategic evaluations, usually in cooperation with other international evaluation organizations.
- The Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation (SADEV) is the umbrella authority evaluating all of Sweden’s development assistance work.
Management response
Since 1999, Sida has had a management response system. This is a formal system in which Sida acts on and gives responses to the results and recommendations that the Secretariat for Evaluation and Internal Audit’s evaluations produce. There are also similar processes for Sida to respond to other department’s evaluations in a similar way. Some of the management responses can be found in Sida’s publication database.
