Development cooperation
In this section you can find best practice examples, country studies and in-depth reports on German and international development cooperation.
- Strengthening rural resilience in India(2024)
- Harvesting water to minimise the effects of climate change in rural Zimbabwe(2024)
- "If we only rely on safe bets, we will miss out on big opportunities"(2023)
- Reconciling perspectives to find solutions(2020)
- Global cooperation is the only way to cope with the crisis(2020)
- The private sector and development co-operation – two unequal partners in the promotion of agriculture(2019)
- Can development co-operation help reduce international labour migration?(2017)
- Learning from each other – knowledge transfer for potato production among African countries and India(2017)
- Reducing child labour in agriculture through agricultural projects(2015)
- Rural advisory services – an essential for successful investment(2012)
- Rural Territorial Development – benefits from German experience?(2012)
- Inclusive business models – new prospects for smallholder market integration?(2012)
Impact measurement
On average, 400,000 US dollars and a period of three years is needed to measure the effect of a development intervention, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation concludes from its activities. These are valuable resources that need to be used carefully. Our authors describe which impact measurement methods have proved to be useful during the last few years and what their strengths and their limits are. And they demonstrate when impact evaluations make sense – and when they don’t.
- Evaluating collaboration between the private sector and development cooperation – how to prove the added value?(2022)
- Data access and management – Where do we stand?(2019)
- Data – a lethal weapon against hunger(2019)
- Of facts and biases(2019)
- Monitoring climate change in “data-scarce regions”(2019)
- The Agricultural Census in Palestine(2019)
- Improving development policies with impact evaluations(2018)
- RCTs and rural development – an abundance of opportunities(2018)
- Randomised controlled trials – the gold standard?(2018)
- Learning from participatory evaluations(2018)
- Making people visible(2018)
- Impact assessment in complex evaluations(2018)
- More than plug-and-play – digital solutions for better monitoring & evaluation(2018)
- Monitoring results of agricultural and food security projects: The indicator challenge(2018)
- Using standard indicators – opportunities, challenges and risks(2018)
- Corporate-level impact measurement – IFAD’s experience(2018)
- Measuring the impact of investments(2012)
