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BiD Seminar: NCDO

Seminar: "Evaluation of Partnerships", 18 October 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Compared to a decade ago, the amount of partnerships for sustainable development between governments, businesses and NGOs have grown explosively. Although we have learned alot about their diverse characteristics and processes, their outcomes are still rather hard to pinpoint. Evaluation is a tricky business, especially because of the different evaluation criteria used by the different actors.

Seminar ‘Evaluation of partnerships’

Date: Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Location: Tijgerzaal Artis Zoo, Amsterdam
Organisation: NCDO and Utrecht — Nijmegen Programme on Partnerships (UNPOP) UNPOP


Click here for the program.
Click here for the report of the seminar (will follow shortly).
For all the (powerpoint)presentations, see below.

  • Representatives of the business community, government and NGO community explained how they look at the subject of partnership evaluation:

•'What does a satisfactory evaluation look like: the business perspective' by Sigrid van Amerongen, Nutreco
• 'What does a satisfactory evaluation look like: the NGO perspective' by Sander van Bennekom, OxfamNovib
• 'What does a satisfactory evaluation look like: the government perspective' by Maarten Gischler, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  • Researchers gave an insight in ongoing partnerships, elaborated on the partnership phenomenon and addressed the added value of partnerships:

• Introduction by Pieter Glasbergen, UNPOP
• 'Dialogues between multinationals and NGOs' by Mariette van Huijstee, UNPOP
• 'Intersectoral partnerships in production chains' by Mara Francken, UNPOP

More information:
Herman Verhagen
Ideals (at) Work