The Political Economy of Aid Evaluation: The German Case

Abstract

Today, official development assistance (ODA) exceeds 50 bn € p.a. Given the tight overall budget situation in many of the donor countries, taxpayers can expect the ministries in charge, as well as their implementing agencies, to evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of their activities in a credible way and to report to the public respectively. While in former decades of development assistance, donor agencies provided only limited insight into the reality of aid, there have been increasing efforts for better accountability in more recent years. However, improved evaluation and more frequent reporting could not resolve all doubts in the public. In particular, high degrees of aid effectiveness published in nicely designed brochures have been less convincing than expected by donor agencies. On the contrary, they have inculcated scepticism and provoked questions as to the objectivity of the evaluation findings.

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