The evaluation’s main purpose was to gather insights to help the two ministries govern these fields of activity. The following issues in particular were to be considered in the evaluation:
- relevance and results of the interventions, to be assessed by means of country studies;
- interface management between AA and BMZ (quality of planning at headquarters and also management in the field, particularly with regard to internal coherence);
- coordination and complementarity with the interventions of other donors, especially the EU and UN organisations;
- appropriateness of the financing channels (international as opposed to national organisations, taking into account local implementation capacities); and
- linking up emergency relief, emergency and transitional aid, reconstruction and development cooperation in line with the LRRD approach (Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development).