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Evaluation in AusAID. Julie Elliott, Performance, Effectiveness and Quality Manager, Philippines and Burma Section Julie.Elliott@ausaid.gov.au. How AusAID assesses performance . Four Yearly Aid Review
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Evaluation in AusAID Julie Elliott, Performance, Effectiveness and Quality Manager, Philippines and Burma Section Julie.Elliott@ausaid.gov.au
How AusAID assesses performance • Four Yearly Aid Review • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee Peer Review • Australian National Audit Office • Office of Development Effectiveness • Internal quality reporting system
Internal quality reporting system Three Purposes • Management • Learning • Accountability 7 Principles • Clear Objectives • Transparency • Contestability and Sound Evidence • Aid effectiveness • Mix of Independent and Self Assessment • Efficiency • Aid Effectiveness
AusAID Performance Management and Evaluation Policy • Three types of reporting processes • Annual Performance Reports • Quality Reporting System • Evaluations
Evaluation and reporting of the Philippines Program Development Cooperation Reports (2007, 2008 & 2009) are available on the AusAID website • 2007-11 Development Cooperation Report describes AusAID contribution, including in: • Education • Strengthening women to resolve conflict in Mindanao • Rollback malaria • Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Some evaluations currently underway • Hazards Mapping and Assessment for Effective Community Based Disaster Risk Management (READY Project) • Philippines Response to Indigenous Peoples and Muslim Education (PRIME) • AusAID World Bank Philippines Development Trust Fund • Another Mindanao is Possible project
Directions for reform Across AUSAID: Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness (2011) recommendations to improve the evaluation system • Fewer but higher quality independent evaluations • Publication • Overseen by an Independent Evaluation Committee • Philippines Program • Joint strategic reviews with the Government of the Philippines • Partnerships with other donors (e.g. joint review missions) • Strategic upstream performance management at the delivery strategy level