Malawi Country Strategy 2016 – 2020 Strategic Evaluation

Description

The Embassy of Ireland Malawi, in conjunction with the Development Cooperation and Africa Division (DCAD) and the wider Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will start planning in 2020 for its new Mission Strategy due to commence in 2021. Since the implementation of Malawi CSP 2016-2020 began, there has been ongoing performance monitoring and analysis, including a Mid-Term Review (MTR). In advance of the planning for the new Mission Strategy 2021 onwards, a range of accountability and evaluative exercises will serve to inform the planning approach for the embassy. In light of the MTR, evaluations and ongoing reviews commissioned by the embassy, the in-country team have proposed that this evaluation be complementary and take a focused approach to this evaluation, rather than a broader scale evaluation. The evaluation will build on the findings of the ongoing reviews currently being undertaken by the Embassy of Ireland in Malawi to inform how the Embassy can better position its approach to transformative change in Malawi, in line with Ireland’s priority commitments outlined in A Better World, Ireland’s Policy for International Development. The evaluation will address the effectiveness of the CSP across its five outcome areas, with focus on accountability and lesson learning in light of Ireland’s new international development policy, A Better World. Gender and climate action/environment have been identified as cross cutting themes given past and future policy priorities. A representative sample of key/strategic projects and approaches across the outcome areas will inform the evaluation, with the view to provide a perspective of outcomes achieved. As such, this evaluation will focus on the aforementioned focal areas.