Evaluering
Midterm Evaluation of NPA-Cambodia Office’s Development Program
NPA’s Cambodia programme originated in the early 1990s with humanitarian relief operations (mainly linked to refugees and repatriation) and with the first deployment of de-miners under UN auspices in the north-western part of the country. The NPA has provided financial and technical assistance to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre since 1993. A coherent development programme only materialised in the 2005-2010 period. This was linked to the phasing out of NPA’s operational and service-oriented projects - a legacy of humanitarian work from the previous decade. By 2010, NPA’s development programme had more than 20 partners in the country. The programme was funded by Norad’s civil society grant as the sole external funder (in the early years there was also a small contribution from Norad’s “oil for development” programme). The Civil Society programme in Cambodia is currently supported through the frame agreement NPA has with NORAD (2016-19) The main purpose of the evaluation was to assess NPA’s partnership with local NGOs/Civil Society Organisations and to identify results and lessons learnt from the programme. The evaluation should incorporate the current country political context and other external factors that might affect NPA’s future development programme and strategy. Furthermore, the study should identify best practices and key lessons and provide recommendations for improvement in terms of program design and strategies, partnership cooperation and NPA’s added value.