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valuation Evaluation report 2012:1 E Finland and Nicaragua MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FINLAND OF AFFAIRS FOREIGN FOR MINISTRY Country Programme between EVALUATION Country programme between finland and nicaragua 2012:1 P.O. Box 451 http://formin.finland.fi 00023 GOVERNMENT Email: [email protected] Development evaluation Operator: (+358 9) 16005 Telefax: (+358 9) 1605 5987 REPORT 2012:1 Country Programme between Finland and Nicaragua REPORT 2009:3 Support to Development Research ISBN: 978-951-724-983-6 (printed), ISBN: 978-951-724-984-3 (pdf), ISSN: 1235-7618 ISBN: 978-951-724-755-9 (printed), ISBN: 978-951-724-756 6 (pdf), ISSN: 1235-7618 REPORT 2011:5 Junior Professional Officer Programme of Finland REPORT 2009:2 Agriculture and Rural Development. 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AGRER N.V. The consultants bear the sole responsibility for the presented views of the report. The report does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland This report can be accessed at http://formin.finland.fi Hard copies can be requested from: [email protected] or Development Evaluation (EVA-11) The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland P.O. Box 451 FI-00023 GOVERNMENT Finland ISBN 978-951-724-983-6 (printed) ISBN 978-951-724-984-3 (pdf) ISSN 1235-7618 Cover photo: Outi Einola-Head Cover design: Anni Palotie Layout: Taittopalvelu Yliveto Oy Printing house: Kopijyvä Oy Translations from English to Finnish and Swedish by AAC Global Oy, further edited by EVA-11. Anyone reproducing the content or part of the content of the report should acknowledge the source. Proposed reference: Caldecott J, van Sluijs F, Aguilar B & Lounela A 2012 Evaluation of the Country Programme between Finland and Nicaragua. Evaluation report 2012:1. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Kopijyvä Oy, Jyväskylä, 103 p. ISBN 978-951-724-983-6 (printed). CONTENTS PREFACE . vii ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . ix ABSTRACT . 1 Finnish . 1 Swedish . 3 English . 5 SUMMARY . 7 Finnish . 7 Swedish . 13 English . 19 Summary of Key Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations . 25 1 INTRODUCTION . 29 1.1 Scope and purpose . 29 1.2 Methods and reports . 30 2 DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT . 35 2.1 Overview of the country . 35 2.2 A history of alternating political economies . 36 2.3 The donor community in Nicaragua . 38 2.4 Socioeconomic change and macroeconomic stability . 43 2.5 Sandinism and Bolivarianism . 48 3 DESCRIBING THE COUNTRY PROGRAMME . 50 3.1 Overview of Finnish cooperation . 50 3.2 General budget support . 52 3.3 Environment . 56 3.4 Health and gender . 57 3.5 Rural development . 59 3.6 The quest for good governance . 61 3.7 Non-governmental participation . 65 3.8 Regional programmes . 68 3.9 Roles of the embassy . 70 4 APPLYING THE EVALUATION CRITERIA . 75 4.1 Relevance . 75 4.2 Efficiency . 76 4.3 Strategic effectiveness . 77 4.4 Impact . 77 4.5 Sustainability . 78 4.6 Coordination . 78 4.7 Complementarity . 79 4.8 Compatibility . 79 4.9 Connectedness . 79 4.10 Coherence . 80 Nicaragua country programme v 4.11 Finnish added value . 80 4.12 Partner satisfaction . 81 4.13 Programming logic . 82 4.14 Replicability .