Evaluation at Sida

The purpose of the annual report is to provide an overview of what and how Sida evaluates along with observations on emerging issues and lessons that can be used to strengthen evaluation at Sida and the effects of Sweden’s development cooperation. The report covers 23 decentralised evaluations commissioned by Sida and foreign missions. The majority of these decentralised evaluations were project or programme evaluations. The evaluations were carried out within 14 out of Sweden’s 44 geographic and thematic strategies and concerned about half of Sida’s eleven main sectors. Three central evaluations of strategic importance to Sida were completed in 2020. The central evaluations concern Sida’s work with a Human Rights Based Approach, the Power Africa project and Sida’s model for bilateral research cooperation. They offer lessons of value for Sida’s ongoing change agenda to attain its vision and mission 2023. Brief summaries are provided for all evaluations – central as well as decentralised – completed and published in 2020.