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Examples of effectiveness
- Southern Africa: improving access to health and education for children affected by HIV/AIDS from many families in precarious financial circumstances.
- Vietnam: building more efficient brick ovens not only safeguards workers’ health but also protects surrounding cultivated lands and establishes standards of equality between men and women.
- Moldavia: engaging in the fight against infant mortality means a long-term improvement in the structures providing perinatal care.
- Central America: the provision of small silos for maize and beans enables local farmers to better manage their grain crops and promotes good hygiene in the home.
Overview of SDC projectsBriefing PapersSpecialist website
Effectiveness
To capitalize on its experience and improve its development programmes and projects, SDC needs to evaluate the effectiveness of its activities critically and systematically. This is how development cooperation and humanitarian aid will be able to achieve their central objective, which is to alleviate poverty in the widest sense.
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Measuring results A programme always has multiple effects: economic, social, cultural and political. To assess the validity of a project, we therefore try to analyze its results, both positive and negative. |
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| Evaluations The work of SDC is subject to systematic critical evaluation, the aim of which is to assess the effectiveness of its projects and strategies. |
Effectiveness reports and annual reports Since 2008, SDC has been publishing in-depth effectiveness reports on specific topics every two years. |