Organisational Review of the Development Cooperation by the Union of Education Norway
Om publikasjonen
- Utgitt: april 2009
- Serie: [Missing text '/property/enum/publicationserie/7' for 'Norwegian']
- Type: --
- Utført av: Jens Claussen, Nora Ingdal og Marit Vedeld
- Bestilt av: Norad
- Land:
- Tema: Utdanning og forskning
- Antall sider: 76
- Serienummer: 11/2009
- ISBN: 978-82-7548-393-3
- ISSN: --
Introduction
This report presents the outcome of an organisational review of the international cooperation by the Union of Education Norway (UEN) supported by Norwegian Official Development Assistance (ODA).
The purpose of this review has been to assess UEN's ability to provide effective aid. It is labelled an "Organisational Review" since the emphasis is on the organisation and management systems applied by UEN in implementing its support to developing country partners, not on effectiveness, outcomes and impact of the support provided by UEN. The main focus for this review has been the managerial and organisational systems and capacity of
UEN which included an assessment of the following:
- The nature of services provided by UEN and to what extent UEN focus on services for which they may be considered to have a comparative advantage and/or falls within their main areas of competence.
- The value added of channelling aid funds through UEN to the partners over and above being a financial intermediary of Norwegian development assistance provided by Norad.
- The quality of the management, organisation and support systems of UEN in implementing its support to partner organisations in developing countries i.e. to what extent the system is designed and operates in a manner that promotes efficient delivery of services and gives reasonable assurance that services delivered are actually benefitting the partner.
- To what extent UEN has the required capacity to effectively manage the portfolio of projects with a wide outreach in terms of services and countries/partners.
- To what extent UEN takes into consideration opportunities to harmonise their aid and cooperate with others supporting the same partners to reduce efficiency losses and transaction costs which may be due to duplication/fragmentation of support at partner levels.
- The extent to which UEN has complied with the terms and conditions as per
agreement with Norad with emphasis on program monitoring and reporting.
- To what extent there has been follow up to the recommendations of the review conducted in 2005.