Capitalisation exercise (meta - evaluation) on EU Private Sector Development (PSD) support to third countries : Final report

The objective of this meta evaluation was to provide an independent overall assessment of the recent performance of the EU Devco through an in-depth analysis of the other donors ‘programmes and the independent evaluations of 45 EU projects carried out during the period. The assessment aiming at improving quality of future EU PSD programmes, paid particular attention to the impact of the programmes actions against their objectives; identifies key issues affecting the success or failure of the various projects, attempts to identify key lessons learnt and to propose practical recommendations for follow-up actions/ approaches that might be designed to support private sector growth in third countries.