The purpose of this assignment is to collect, collate and systematically present, in the form of Evaluation Portraits and Country Evaluation Briefs, findings from existing evaluations and other documents of development interventions in five Norwegian partner countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal and Tanzania.
The objective of this assignment is to provide accessible and relevant knowledge about Norwegian and other donors’ development efforts in Norway’s partner countries through systematising findings from existing evaluations of development interventions. The exercise emphasises learning, supplementing a growing database of systematised, relevant, context-specific and accessible information. Beyond its intrinsic value, this knowledge forms a basis for development policies and strategies, contributes to development efforts in the field and reveals knowledge gaps that could be covered by future evaluations.
The main target groups for the study are the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad and Norwegian embassies in the selected partner countries and elsewhere.
The assignment is guided by the following questions:

• What are the key contextual features characterising each of the studied case countries?
• How do these contextual features affect development interventions in the respective country/-ies?
• What is the nature of the programmes and projects studied, including levels of development support?
• What are the major obstacles/challenges faced by those interventions?
• What are the major findings in the assessed material concerning the goals, methods, challenges, results and sustainability of the interventions studied?
• How do the programmes and projects perform in terms of such cross-cutting issues as gender equality, environmental concerns and anti-corruption?
• Which, intended and, if any, unintended effects of the programmes and projects, positive and negative, can be identified?