Technical Assistance Evaluation Program - Findings of Evaluations and Updated Program

Date:	April 4, 2008
Electronic Access:	Full Text
Subject(s):	Technical assistance programs | Technical assistance
Summary: This paper summarizes the findings of evaluations of technical assistance (TA) projects conducted since the last Board paper on the Technical Assistance Evaluation Program in 2006. Updates to the Evaluation Program are also provided for FY2009–2011. The Evaluation Program was launched in July 2002, and is organized as a rolling work plan of three to four evaluations per year. Evaluation results are reported to the Board for information on a regular basis. Since the Program’s initiation, 14 evaluations have been completed and their results presented to the Board (Table 1). The evaluations featured in this paper are geared to provide background information for Executive Directors’ discussion of the paper on Enhancing the Impact of Fund Technical Assistance. In particular, given the increasing emphasis on planning and delivering TA on a regional basis, and the consideration to use multi-donor topical trust funds to attract new TA financing, it is timely that this paper studies evaluations of two Fund regional TA centers (RTACs) and one multi-donor subaccount, as follows: (a) the mid-term evaluation of the Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Center (METAC); (b) the second mid-term review of the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center (CARTAC); and (c) the evaluation of the TA subaccount for Iraq.