During the second week of the discussion, the EvalForEarth community shared valuable insights on the evaluation of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), reflecting a wide range of perspectives from different regions and institutions. The following key themes emerged: Ventura Mufume (Associação Moçambicana de Monitoria e Avaliação) Despite growing South-South commercial ties, limited access to internet, electricity, and digital infrastructure—especially in rural and peri-urban areas—remains a major barrier to exchanging evaluation practices and achieving inclusive cooperation. Hailu Negu (Ethiopian Electric Power). To maximize the impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in today’s evolving aid architecture, robust, participatory, and context-sensitive evaluation systems are essential to ensure accountability, mutual learning, and evidence-based decision-making that align with the SDGs and foster inclusive development. Mariana Vidal Merino (Adaptation Fund Technical Evaluation Reference Group) While SSTC holds great promise—particularly for climate adaptation through peer learning, technical assistance, and shared solutions—the lack of dedicated evaluation frameworks risks it being perceived as symbolic rather than a substantive tool for development, underscoring the need for integrated and evidence-based assessment approaches. Eddah Kanini (Board Member: AfrEA, AGDEN & MEPAK) Evaluating SSTC requires co-created, qualitative approaches that reflect Southern values and capture relational, process-based outcomes—such as mutual learning and capacity exchange—which are often missed due to the absence of SSTC-specific frameworks and limited documentation of success beyond outputs. Marlene Roefs (Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation – WCDI) To enhance the evaluation of complex SSTC and multistakeholder interventions, it is valuable to incorporate partners’ diverse criteria for success, address contextual power dynamics, and explore participatory, experience-based evaluation approaches that actively involve decision-makers in the entire evaluation process.
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RE: Maximizing the impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in a changing aid architecture through evaluation.
China
Xin Xin Yang
UNICEF
Posted on 13/05/2025
During the second week of the discussion, the EvalForEarth community shared valuable insights on the evaluation of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), reflecting a wide range of perspectives from different regions and institutions. The following key themes emerged:
Ventura Mufume (Associação Moçambicana de Monitoria e Avaliação) Despite growing South-South commercial ties, limited access to internet, electricity, and digital infrastructure—especially in rural and peri-urban areas—remains a major barrier to exchanging evaluation practices and achieving inclusive cooperation.
Hailu Negu (Ethiopian Electric Power). To maximize the impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in today’s evolving aid architecture, robust, participatory, and context-sensitive evaluation systems are essential to ensure accountability, mutual learning, and evidence-based decision-making that align with the SDGs and foster inclusive development.
Mariana Vidal Merino (Adaptation Fund Technical Evaluation Reference Group) While SSTC holds great promise—particularly for climate adaptation through peer learning, technical assistance, and shared solutions—the lack of dedicated evaluation frameworks risks it being perceived as symbolic rather than a substantive tool for development, underscoring the need for integrated and evidence-based assessment approaches.
Eddah Kanini (Board Member: AfrEA, AGDEN & MEPAK) Evaluating SSTC requires co-created, qualitative approaches that reflect Southern values and capture relational, process-based outcomes—such as mutual learning and capacity exchange—which are often missed due to the absence of SSTC-specific frameworks and limited documentation of success beyond outputs.
Marlene Roefs (Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation – WCDI) To enhance the evaluation of complex SSTC and multistakeholder interventions, it is valuable to incorporate partners’ diverse criteria for success, address contextual power dynamics, and explore participatory, experience-based evaluation approaches that actively involve decision-makers in the entire evaluation process.
📣 Please Join the Conversation
Contribute your insights to the ongoing EvalForEarth discussion on evaluating South-South and Triangular Cooperation:
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