14 September 2011 - Ecorys has been awarded a contract by NORAD, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, to evaluate the country’s development cooperation with Afghanistan during the past ten years. This represents the first win with this organisation for Ecorys.

Norway has provided substantial development assistance to Afghanistan since 2001: more than € 600 million. Norwegian assistance was mainly focused on three sectors – education, community development and good governance and used a variety of delivery mechanisms, of which the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund, UN agencies and Norwegian NGOs were the most important.

The backbone of this evaluation will be the choice of programmes and channels as well as the degrees of freedom that Norway had in making these choices and how these impacted on the improvement of the delivery of public services and on the welfare of the targeted groups. Cross-cutting themes for the evaluation include enhanced governance and gender equality.

The evaluation study will be conducted between September 2011 and February 2012 and will include field visits to Oslo and Kabul to consult with important stakeholders.

For more information:
Ivo Gijsberts
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