Evaluation of the Commission of the European Union's co-operation with Ethiopia : Country Level Evaluation ; Final Report ; Volume 1

The main objective of this evaluation was to draw out lessons for future EU cooperation. This report presents the findings of the 2010 Country Level Evaluation of the European Union‘s support to Ethiopia. The evaluation was carried out to provide meaningful feedback to the European Commission, the Member States and the general public on the achievements of the EU cooperation programme with Ethiopia between 2004 and 2008, an earlier period of cooperation having been covered by the 2003 Country-Level Evaluation. The lessons from this evaluation are intended to be used to inform the current and future EU support to Ethiopia. Lessons learned from the results of the EU's support to Ethiopia may also be fruitful for other ACP countries facing similar high economic growth prospects and governance issues. The evaluation covered the EU cooperation programme with Ethiopia during the period of economic recovery which followed the war with Eritrea and it also included the 2005 post-election violence and the subsequent cooling of Ethiopia-donor relations. The evaluators focused not only on the EU‘s assistance during implementation of the CSP and 9th EDF NIP (2002-2007) (including a variety of instruments), but also on the choices it made for planning aid disbursements under the 10th EDF (2008-2013).