Impact Evaluation of Dutch Cooperation in Water Management on Poverty Alleviation in Egypt

Description

The year 1975 was the beginning of the bilateral development cooperation between Egypt and the Netherlands. The overall aim of the cooperation has been to support Egypt in the achievement of sustainable economic and social development. The aid program has been mainly working in four different sectors with an emphasis on the sector water management.

Poverty alleviation has always been one of the targets addressed by most of the development projects in developing countries but
it is not directly related with the different Dutch-Egyptian cooperation activities in the water sector. However, one can pursue it through indirect impact of the different implemented projects.

As the Egyptian Dutch cooperation will phase out after 2004, NSCE has been commissioned to carry out a study on the overall
impact of the water management projects on poverty alleviation.

Services

The tasks of NSCE include the selection of sample projects that will be subject of the study and the review of all the project documents and the related evaluation reports of these selected projects. After finishing the deskwork, fieldwork is carried out by NSCE in pilot areas to evaluate the impacts of the different projects on poverty alleviation by interviewing key informants from a wide range of Dutch and Egyptian key stakeholders. Finally, the results of the study are documented in the final report.

More specifically, NSCE conducted:

• Literature review on poverty.
• Review Dutch projects in water sector documents.
• Formulating logical framework of sample projects evaluation.
• Formulating survey questioner for projects beneficiaries.
• Formulating guidelines for in depth interviews with project staffs and beneficiary.
• Conducting fieldwork.
• Data analysis and reporting.