Development assistance often fails to achieve institutional change because of a limited consideration of the political nature of these reforms and the local context. In response, political and adaptive development assistance (PADA) approaches, such as “Thinking and Working Politically” (TWP)...

The main objectives of this evaluation is to provide an overall independent and accountable assessment of the European Commission’s cooperation relations with Thailand during the 1997-2007 period, to identify lessons learnt from past cooperation and thus to assist the implementation of the...

The overall purpose of this evaluation is to ensure accountability for the use of allocated resources as well as to promote a lesson-learning culture in European Commission (EC) development cooperation. The main specific objectives of the evaluation were: •to provide the relevant external...