Implementation of recommendations from DEval evaluations. Synthesis of the implementation monitoring of DEval evaluation recommendations (2015-2018

The BMZ and other organisations addressed by the recommendations decide in the implementation planning the extent to which they share the recommendations and in which steps the shared recommendations should be implemented. [...] The following sections present the results of the synthesis, first in regard to the characteristics of the recom- mendations made and then concerning the status of the sharing and implementation of recommendations. [...] The most significant inhibiting factors mentioned in the interviews conducted as part of the implementation monitoring were the lack of resources available to those responsible for the evaluation object as well as inadequate consideration of limited resources in the formulation of the recommendations. [...] In the Meta-Evaluation and Evaluation Synthesis of Sustainability as well as in the Evalua- tion of the Integration of the Instruments of Technical Cooperation – both evaluations with a particularly high volume of implemented recommendations – working groups were entrusted with the implementation of the recommendations or responsibilities were otherwise defined in the respective organisational uni. [...] A review of the implications for resources in the formulation of recommendations and the consideration of these in implementation planning thus create favourable conditions for realising the envisioned implementation steps for the recommendations in accordance with the planning.